One week left to take part in the global KM survey

Favorite You have one week left to take part in our 2017 survey of Knowledge Management. As a thank-you we will give you a free copy of the 2014 survey results, as well as the 2017 results. In 2014 we organised one of the most comprehensive surveys of global knowledge

Read More
Shared by Nick Milton April 24, 2017

This blog is on holiday

Favorite This blog is taking 2 weeks break. Normal service will be resumed from April 24th View Original Source Here.

How much knowledge can one person have?

Favorite What are the limits to one person’s knowledge? Other than being “one personbyte”? Books in a stack by Evan Bench on Flickr The April 1, 2017 edition of New Scientist magazine has the theme of Knowledge, and contains a set of Knowledge-related articles, one of which deals with the issue

Read More
Shared by Nick Milton April 5, 2017

Knowledge, Justified True Belief, and David Brent’s dance

Favorite If Knowledge is Justified True Belief, then what does “Justification” entail?  A recent New Scientist article, and a BBC charity video, give us some pointers. BBC Comic Relief charity video including Ricky Gervais’ character “David Brent” The April 1, 2017 edition of New Scientist magazine has the theme of

Read More
Shared by Nick Milton April 4, 2017

Describing and measuring the KM culture

Favorite To manage something, you need to be able to measure it. But measuring culture is a very difficult task. Culture is a key issue in Knowledge Management, but culture itself is hard to define and hard to describe  (my favourite definition of culture is “how we behave when nobody

Read More
Shared by Nick Milton April 3, 2017

Formal KM v informal – Connect v Collect

Favorite People are often instinctively drawn towards one component of Knowledge Management. Here’s a way of looking at those components. Choices about the approach to KM are often made implicitly, emotionally, or through assumption, so it’s worth taking time out to analyse these approaches intellectually, before starting work on your

Read More
Shared by Nick Milton March 31, 2017

Pride as a KM disincentive/incentive

Favorite Pride is an interesting motivator in Knowledge Management. In some cases it acts as a real dis-incentive, but if harnessed well it can be a powerful driver for KM behaviours. Proud Lion from Public Domain Pictures I was reflecting on this recently while running one of our powerful Bird Island

Read More
Shared by Nick Milton March 30, 2017