Favorite Here are some interesting videos from Interpol on their approach (Project Stadia) to develop and share lessons and good practices on Event Security. As this site explains “With our global network of experts, INTERPOL is ideally placed to serve as a centralized hub for research, design, planning, coordination and
Favorite This post is a reprise from May, 2009 – nearly 10 years ago. I thought it was worth digging it out again as there are some interesting ideas in here. Lewis & Clark, a photo by Timothy Tolle on Flickr. It’s an illustration of how Knowledge matures over time,
Favorite There are three common styles of knowledge flow that you can see in organisations. We can call them centre-out, out and in, and multiflow. In our picture here, the red dots are the central group of experts, the white dots are the knowledge users or knowledge workers, and the
Favorite Knowledge has a half-life, and therefore an expiry date. This is the intriguing premise behind a new book by Sam Arbesman, called “the half life of facts”. The book, described in the video below, focuses primarily on academic facts and on science, and finds a half-life of 44 years,
Favorite In today’s rapidly changing world, the speed at which your organisation learns can be a competitive advantage. Spitfies and Bf109 Dogfight, by Adam Purves on Flickr The world is changing, and the rate of change is speeding up. In the past, when progress was slower and the rate of
Favorite If you do not capture knowledge in an atmosphere of respect, you will often not capture knowledge at all. Anonymous Unknown author [CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)] I blogged last week about Cognitive Dissonance – the way that people, when faced with the dissonance between their view of themselves as
Favorite I posted on this blog 5 years ago on the topic of KM career paths, and suggested the following model for career progression within KM, at least within a larger organisation. Image from wikimedia commons Knowledge facilitator or Knowledge engineer. Doing the basic jobs of KM, facilitating meetings, conducting
Favorite “This time it’s different” can be the four most costly words in project knowledge management, if they are used as a reason not to learn from the past. Albert Einstein’s definition of insanity was “doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results”. And yet, any
Favorite Here’s a really great video on a small organisation operationalising a lessons learned process The organisation is Boulder Associates, an Architect and Design firm with a couple of hundred staff working out of a handful of US locations. The video was recorded at the KA-connect conference in San Francisco