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Favorite It seems every country around the world wants to be a Knowledge Economy. Yet why do so few of them seem to want to invest in Knowledge Management? A knowledge economy is one where knowledge resources such as know-how and expertise are as critical as other economic resources. It
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Shared by Nick Milton October 4, 2019
Favorite Amazon Textract is a machine learning service that makes it easy to extract text and data from virtually any document. Textract goes beyond simple optical character recognition (OCR) to also identify the contents of fields in forms and information stored in tables. This allows you to use Amazon Textract
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Shared by AWS Machine Learning October 3, 2019
Favorite If a start-up is successful, it needs to think about Knowledge Management from the beginning – not because KM is important at the beginning, but because without KM it could really struggle to scale up. At the beginning of its life, a start-up company is built on the insight,
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Favorite In a post from 2009 (no longer available) Lucas McDonnell provided 6 signs that your Knowledge Management strategy could be in trouble. I have added 4 more. Image from wikimedia commons Lucas’ 6 signs are as follows, with my comments in brackets, and then I add a few more trouble signs
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Favorite Very often people will say to you “we don’t have the time for Knowledge Management”. But what does this really signify? Image by on Paul Downey on Flickr “We are busy” they might say; “We have lots of real project tasks to do – we can’t take time off
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Favorite Here is a useful boston square on learning from success and failure I blogged earlier this month about “Win or lose, you should always learn“. However the learning strategy you employ depends very much on whether you are in a fail-safe environment or whether (as in the Apollo 13
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Favorite Amazon Transcribe is an automatic speech recognition (ASR) service that makes it easy for developers to add speech-to-text capability to applications. In November 2018, we added streaming transcriptions over HTTP/2 to Amazon Transcribe. This enabled users to pass a live audio stream to our service and, in return, receive
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Favorite AWS offers a vast array of services that allow developers to build applications in the cloud. At the same time, Windows desktop applications can take advantage of these services as well. Today, we are releasing Amazon Polly for Windows, an open-source engine that allows users to take advantage of
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Favorite Why is knowledge management not infinitely valuable? It’s because the value it delivers cannot exceed the “Cost of not-knowing” See text for explanation I was asked a question a few years back by someone challenging stories of KM value. “If Shell could deliver $200m per year through KM” he asked
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Favorite This is a reprise from the archives – a story of when KM was launched at British Petroleum through an early meeting of supporters and enthusiasts. It’s an extract from my book Performance Through Learning (available here), telling of a key moment in the history of the BP KM
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