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Favorite What is the Knowledge management solution? That’s a question that’s been debated for two decades, but I would like to take a high-level approach to the question and ask – is the solution a tool, a toolbox, or a management framework? Image from wikimedia commons Is it a tool?
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Shared by Nick Milton March 10, 2020
Favorite Defer judgement – never drive your brain with the brakes on. One of the ten key elements of an Organisational Learning culture is Openness, and part of the key to openness is deferral of judgement. We see this in processes such as After Action Review and Retrospect, where the
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Favorite IDEO based their KM platform around 5 design principles. Here they are. Image from wikimedia commons Here is a fascinating article by Doug Solomon, entitled “The Tube: IDEO Builds a Collaboration System That Inspires through Passion.” It describes how IDEO, the famous design and innovation agency, built themselves a
Read More Shared by Nick Milton March 6, 2020
Favorite This updated reprise from the archives uses the Lean Supply Chain as an analogy for KM, and suggests ways in which we can remove waste from Knowledge Management. There is a lot of value on using metaphors as different ways to look at KM, this blog has frequently used
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Favorite Effective learning within an organisation requires consistent and rigorous self-analysis, in order to pick up learning points and points of improvement. In Japan, this process is known as Hansei. Hansei, by Jim O’Neil, on Flickr Although alien to many in the west, Hansei is an important part of the
Read More Shared by Nick Milton March 4, 2020
Favorite The AWS DeepRacer League is the world’s first autonomous racing league and is open to anyone. In 2019, tens of thousands of developers from around the world took part in a race against the clock to see who had the fastest model. The competition ended with SOLA from Japan
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Shared by AWS Machine Learning March 3, 2020
Favorite KM in product development has its own set of principles. Here they are. The Exploratory Product Development Resolution Loopby Petepetey via Wikimedia Commons Kennedy, Harmon and Minnock’s excellent book “Ready, Set , Dominate” takes a knowledge-centred view of product development, inspired by practices of Toyota Motor Company and refined
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Favorite You want to plan a face to face event for your Community of Practice in order to transfer knowledge, but which event style do you select? This is a discussion I have been having recently, and it struck me that this might be a useful blog post. Now there
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Favorite You want to plan a face to face event for your Community of Practice in order to transfer knowledge, but which event style do you select? This is a discussion I have been having recently, and it struck me that this might be a useful blog post. Now there
Read More Shared by Nick Milton March 2, 2020
Favorite Virtual screening is a computational methodology used in drug or materials discovery by searching a vast amount of molecules libraries to identify the structures that are most likely to show the target characteristics. It is becoming a ground-breaking tool for molecular discovery due to the exponential growth of available
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