Described in a Harvard Business School article from 2016, here is the pledge that WD40 staff take to commit to organisational-wide sharing and learning. This is the Learning Manic Pledge; part of WD40’s “tribal culture“. The pledge is as follows: I am responsible for taking action, asking questions, getting answers,
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Shared by Nick Milton August 8, 2022
Posted by Paul Hongsuck Seo and Arsha Nagrani, Research Scientists, Google Research, Perception Team Multimodal video captioning systems utilize both the video frames and speech to generate natural language descriptions (captions) of videos. Such systems are stepping stones towards the longstanding goal of building multimodal conversational systems that effortlessly communicate
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Shared by Google AI Technology June 7, 2022
The video below is from a talk I gave to the Gesellschaft für Wissensmanagement (GfWM) knowledge camp last week, on the topic of “value focused KM”. You can find more videos from the same event here. The video lasts about 30 minutes, and covers the source of value that KM taps
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Shared by Nick Milton November 26, 2021
The video below is a conversation between Nancy Dixon and Tom Stewart, two of the early pioneers of the KM discipline. This is great stuff with important insights – please set aside 30 minutes to listen to it! The conversation is part of Columbia University’s “IKNS Conversations That Matter” series (see
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Shared by Nick Milton November 17, 2021
Here is a link to a video of my ex-colleague Rupert Lescott talking at a virtual KM event about the application of KM to projects within PWC. Thanks Rupert for letting me share the link below (you will need to ckick the link rather than the picture. PWC Case Study:
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Shared by Nick Milton October 27, 2021
The US Army Training and Doctrine command, who run KM for the US Army, have released the first part of their KM documentary (I shared the introduction here). There is some great stuff here. “All of the foundational thoughts about Mission Command, rely heavily on Knowledge Management” “Those organisations who
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Shared by Nick Milton September 15, 2021
“Knowledge management is a powerful force multiplier, that creates shared understanding, and informs and enhances the decision making process… It is not a function performed by a few people in HQ; it’s part of everyone’s job” These are two of the messages from this introductory video from TRADOC, the Training
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Shared by Nick Milton August 18, 2021
A great video from the TRADOC Facebook page, which I saw on Linked-In and share here. General Funk refers to one of his principles – TOPS (Take Other People’s Stuff) – as the rationale behind KM. More on TOPS here. View Original Source (nickmilton.com) Here.
In this YouTube video, Vivek Raman describes how KM at the Asian Development Bank is moving from a Push model (driven by knowledge supply) to Pull model (driven by knowledge demand) for its knowledge products and solutions. As Vivek says – “Our challenge was complex: One, we needed to design
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Shared by Nick Milton April 15, 2021
As my last blog post this year, please find below a presentation I gave last month to CIEDO in Barcelona. Many thanks to CIEDO for inviting me to the conference, which was extremely interesting. I was honoured to be invited. In the video I am talking on the topic of
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Shared by Nick Milton December 21, 2020