Quantified KM value case story 140 – construction time saved at AFCONS

Favorite This story describes how AFCONS Infrastructure saved 100 days in a big construction project Chenab bridge, an AFCONS projectImage from wikimedia commonsBy bhisham pratap padha from Jammu, India – IMG_7770b, CC BY-SA 2.0,  AFCONS Infrastructure is an infrastructure company, we work on large public infrastructure projects like ports, metros,

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Shared by Nick Milton July 8, 2020

3 ways to estimate the value of lessons learned

Favorite Many organisations attempt to assign value to lessons in a lessons management system, and there are three ways you can do this.  A screen sub-panel from the lessons management hubshowing value assigned to lessons Assigning value to lesson-learning has three main advantages; It reassures the people using the system

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Shared by Nick Milton June 24, 2020

Quantified KM value case studies numbers 130 through 139

Favorite In the embedded video below you can find 10 case studes which illustrate the value delivered by health librarians, who are a main component in the KM systems used in the UK National Health Service. The video is entitled “Health Librarians and Knowledge Specialists Impact Case Study Vignettes” and

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Shared by Nick Milton June 8, 2020

How to apply Knowledge Management to Mergers and Acquisitions

Favorite Knowledge management delivers maximum value when applied to high value knowledge, to support high value decisions, and in areas where that knowledge is otherwise at risk of being lost. A typical high value area where major decisions will be made is Mergers and Acquisitions.  Image from wikimedia commons,Merger of

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Shared by Nick Milton June 5, 2020

Why "Knowledge for action" is better than "knowledge for storage"

Favorite Knowledge has to lead to action in order to add value.  call to action by Sean MacEntee on Flickr As the blogger Bill Wilson says (in the context of root cause analysis) “Learning without action is mere mental trickery, while action without learning is simply useless physical exercise”.  If knowledge management is

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Shared by Nick Milton December 18, 2019

How to identify a knowledge "near miss"

Favorite In organisational safety management, they identify a “near miss” as evidence that safety practices need to be improved.  We can do the same in knowledge management. Image from safety.af.mil I have often used Safety Management as a useful analogue for KM, and here’s another good crossover idea. In safety

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Shared by Nick Milton November 15, 2019