Favorite In this blog post I want to contrast two software systems, the Lessons Database, and the Lessons Management System. Lessons Leaned. Sure, by Mike Licht on Flickr There are two types of Lessons Learned approaches, which you could differentiate as “Lessons for Information” and “Lessons for Action”. These represent
Favorite This is a story I have reposted a couple of times, because its so uplifting to read of a World Leader who values Knowledge so highly. Image from wikimedia commons The text below is taken from the outstanding book “playing the enemy”, by John Carlin – a book about
Favorite There is a strong argument that the purpose of Knowledge Management is decision support. But which decisions should KM support? Peter Senge tells us that Knowledge is the ability to make effective decisions, and the new ISO standard 30401:2018 tells us that knowledge is “human or organizational asset enabling effective
Favorite KM can add purpose to internal benchmarking, by using it to drive knowledge sharing Image from wikimedia commons Many commercial organisations track internal KPIs. They publish league tables of the different departments, and differentiate the high performers, and the poor performers. But Why? What’s the point? Surely not just
Favorite This post contains quotes from KM teams about building a communication strategy to support KM implementation KM is a change program, and Communication is one of your most levers in delivering change. Every KM implementation needs a communication strategy. Here is some guidance on a KM communication strategy, illustrated
Favorite In KM – do you “let a thousand flowers bloom”? Or is your garden more planned that that? Image from wikimedia comons One of my favourite sayings is that if knowledge is organic, KM is gardening. And as all gardeners know, gardening is hard work! Even within the topic
Favorite Struggling to get traction with senior managers for your Knowledge Management initiative? That’s partly because they don’t know how much the organisation’s knowledge is worth. Show me the money, by Alan / Falcon on Flickr Ten years ago, my first ever post on this blog suggested that knowledge management is
Favorite There are at least 7 ways in which Knowledge Transfer can fail. Here are 7 of the most common. I am sure you can suggest others. This post is inspired by this article by John F. Mahon and Nory B. Jones, authors of the book “Knowledge Transfer and Innovation“. They
Favorite It struck me recently that this blog is now 10 years old tenth birthday cake, by normanack on Flickr The first ever post was in January 2009, and since then I have written 2500 posts – an average of about one per working day. Sure there is some repetition,
Favorite One in a series of 100 posts about KM roles and role descriptions, here are 14 tasks for a Knowledge Manager Tumyra Byron, Knowledge Operations manager, USAF Courtesy of Rob Dalton, and reproduced from this page on KM4Dev, here is his “Task list for a knowledge manager”. He originally