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Favorite Transferring knowledge is like passing a ball – both the thrower and the catcher share accountability for an effective pass. Imagine an experienced practitioner transferring knowledge to a younger colleague or group of colleagues. Who is accountable for ensuring effective knowledge transfer? The answer is that the accountability is
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Shared by Nick Milton February 28, 2020
Favorite Amazon CodeGuru (Preview) is a service launched at AWS re:Invent 2019 that analyzes the performance characteristics of your application and provides automatic recommendations on ways to improve. It does this by profiling your application’s runtime (with CodeGuru Profiler) and by automatically reviewing source code changes (with CodeGuru Reviewer). For
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Shared by AWS Machine Learning February 27, 2020
Favorite The Farnham Street blog (reporting on the book Mind Gym) describes nine tactics you can use to influence others, while making the point that ““it is essential that you understand the other person’s reasons so you can use tactics that will work to persuade them, as opposed to tactics that
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Favorite This reprised blog post is a reminder of that amazing example of free and open knowledge sharing that is Radiopaedia X-ray published in ABC news, taken from Radiopaedia As described in this fascinating article, Radiopaedia is an online wiki where Radiologists all over the globe share online X-rays that are interesting, unusual, or demonstrate
Read More Shared by Nick Milton February 26, 2020
Favorite Journalists and fact-checkers face huge challenges in sorting accurate information from fast-spreading misinformation. But it’s not just about the words we read. Viral images and memes flood our feeds and chats, and often they’re out-of-context or fake. In Asia, where there are eight times more social media users than
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Shared by Google AI Technology February 25, 2020
Favorite The way that individuals remember is a small-scale analogue for Organisational Knowledge Management. Image from Wikipedia We acquire knowledge through experience or through learning; We store that knowledge in our short term memory; If we feel is has long term value, we transfer it to our long-term memory, where
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Favorite Who owns the knowledge in your head; you, or the company you work for? Image by Frits Ahlefeldt on Wikimedia Commons Instinctively most of us assume that we own the knowledge in our heads. It’s our head, so it’s our knowledge. A 2012 LinkedIn poll tested this question, providing
Read More Shared by Nick Milton February 24, 2020
Favorite A recurrent theme on this blog is to address “the 4 legs on the Knowledge Management table” – the four enabling elements of the Knowledge Management Framework (and indeed of any management framework) – roles, processes, technology and governance. Two days ago I published a quick exercise, looking at
Read More Shared by Nick Milton February 21, 2020
Favorite Amazon Forecast is a fully managed service that uses machine learning (ML) to generate highly accurate forecasts without requiring any prior ML experience. Forecast is applicable in a wide variety of use cases, including estimating product demand, energy demand, workforce planning, computing cloud infrastructure usage, traffic demand, supply chain
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Favorite Product life-cycle management (PLM) is a well-established discipline. To support this, we are going to need Product life-cycle knowledge management. Image from wikimedia commons In industry, product lifecycle management is the process of managing the entire lifecycle of a product from inception, through engineering design and manufacture, to service
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