Personal learning, KM and the 170:20:10 rule

Favorite The 70:20:10 rule is commonly quoted, as in this video by Steve Trautman, as representing the three ways in which people learn. 10% of our learning, comes from formal training 20% of our learning comes from structured mentoring, from a senior to a junior, or teacher to learner 70%

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Shared by Nick Milton March 19, 2020

How benchmarking and KM make a powerful combination

Favorite One of the main barriers to knowledge transfer and re-use is complacency. Benchmarking (internal and external) can help remove this complacency. Not invented here Bingo, by Ramon Vullings on Flickr One of the biggest barriers to overcome in Knowledge Management is a lack of desire to learn from others,

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Shared by Nick Milton March 17, 2020

What can happen if you don’t capture the "know-why"

Favorite Know-Why is important in KM, but sometimes neglected. Let’s see what happens if this is not captured. Image courtesy of keesler.af.mil Know-how is one of the cornerstones of Knowledge Management.  If we capture how things should be done, we empower people who need to perform a task, but have

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Shared by Nick Milton March 16, 2020

Creating a machine learning-powered REST API with Amazon API Gateway mapping templates and Amazon SageMaker

Favorite Amazon SageMaker enables organizations to build, train, and deploy machine learning models. Consumer-facing organizations can use it to enrich their customers’ experiences, for example, by making personalized product recommendations, or by automatically tailoring application behavior based on customers’ observed preferences. When building such applications, one key architectural consideration is

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Shared by AWS Machine Learning March 13, 2020

Cultural barriers to KM – updated

Favorite Which are the most common cultural barriers to KM? How do these barriers change with KM maturity? Which parts of the world have the most cultural barriers?   These are some of the questions we addressed in our recent surveys of Knowledge Management. The results from the 2014 survey are

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Shared by Nick Milton March 13, 2020

CKO skills, revisited

Favorite In 2015 I published a post showing that a significant proportion of CKOs know very little about Knowledge Management, at least according to their Linked-in profiles. This year I revisited these stats. It seems things have improved a little, but there are still a lot of CKOs out there

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Shared by Nick Milton March 12, 2020