Doing KM "the right way around"

Favorite Say what you like about the ISO KM standard; at least it encourages you to address KM in the correct order! There are many approaches adopted for introducing KM, and not all of them work well. For example the historically common approach of “Technology Push” – where an organisation

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Shared by Nick Milton January 7, 2020

Why its good to treat KM as one discipline among many

Favorite There’s nothing magic about Knowledge management; it’s just a management discipline, like so many others. I would suggest that Knowledge Management is one management discipline among many. It represents a way of managing work, paying due attention to the value and effect of an intangible asset (namely, knowledge). It

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Shared by Nick Milton January 6, 2020

Building a custom classifier using Amazon Comprehend

Favorite Amazon Comprehend is a natural language processing (NLP) service that uses machine learning (ML) to find insights and relationships in texts. Amazon Comprehend identifies the language of the text; extracts key phrases, places, people, brands, or events; and understands how positive or negative the text is. For more information

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Shared by AWS Machine Learning December 25, 2019

End of year break

Favorite This blog is taking an end-year break.  Happy Holidays to all my readers; normal service will be resumed in January.  View Original Source (nickmilton.com) Here.

Amazon Textract becomes PCI DSS certified, and retrieves even more data from tables and forms

Favorite Amazon Textract automatically extracts text and data from scanned documents, and goes beyond simple optical character recognition (OCR) to also identify the contents of fields and information in tables, without templates, configuration, or machine learning experience required. Customers such as Intuit, PitchBook, Change Healthcare, Alfresco, and more are already

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Shared by AWS Machine Learning December 19, 2019

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