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Favorite Reaching the Deep Knowledge often requires the help of a facilitator or interviewer, and there is a tell-tale sign that shows when you get there. “woman, thinking” by Robert Couse-Baker, on Flickr Superficial knowledge transfer happens all the time. A foreman leaves his job. The company arranges a hand-over
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Shared by Nick Milton June 9, 2017
Favorite You have have made a logical business case for KM at your organisation, but nobody buys things based on logic. USP by photosteve101 on Flickr People generally buy things based on emotion (“I must have that – it looks so cool”), and then convince themselves by logic that is was a
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Favorite If times are changing, why not take a knowledge-centred view of the change? If your organisational world is changing, it is easy to take an Activity view (“What will we do to cope with the change?”), but why not take a Knowledge view? There are four generic classes of
Read More Shared by Nick Milton June 6, 2017
Favorite Here is another reprised post from the archives – as relevant now as it was 5 years ago. David Snowden’s 7 principles for Knowledge Management are justly famous in the KM literature as a simple and accessible set of principles. However they all relate to the supply side of knowledge
Read More Shared by Nick Milton June 5, 2017
Favorite When it comes to determining Knowledge Management Metrics, make sure you cover the Demand side as well as the Supply side. Image from wikimedia commons The most difficult aspect of Knowledge Management to address is re-use, and yet re-use of knowledge is the whole point of KM. All of
Read More Shared by Nick Milton June 2, 2017
Favorite Most of us are familiar with the SECI model from Nonaka and Takeuchi, but sometimes forget that C stands for Combination, not Collection. Image from wikimedia commons The Nonaka and Takeuchi SECI model for knowledge creation is well known in the KM world, with its 4 components of Socialisation,
Read More Shared by Nick Milton June 1, 2017
Favorite Here are three perennial KM arguments. Do they matter? (this is a reprise of an original blog post from 5 years ago) Mockingbird argument, from wikimedia commons Over the 20 years that we have been doing knowledge management, there has been a number of recurrent arguments that appear regularly,
Read More Shared by Nick Milton May 31, 2017
Favorite We often say that “Knowledge Management must be focused on the critical business knowledge”, but how do we identify what that critical knowledge is? There are actually two dimensions to identifying the criticality of a Knowledge Topic (at least in terms of steering your KM program). These are Importance, and Urgency
Read More Shared by Nick Milton May 30, 2017
Favorite Lesson Learning is well embedded in the United States Army and forms a model which industry can emulate, especially when it comes to assigning knowledge management roles within the business. As explained in this excellent analysis from Nancy Dixon, lesson learning works well in the US Army. This article describes some of the components
Read More Shared by Nick Milton May 29, 2017
Favorite One of the biggest challenges in Knowledge Management is the invisible and intangible nature of Knowledge. How can we make knowledge, and knowledge gaps, visible to others? You can’t see knowledge, you can’t measure it, you can’t tell when it’s missing, other than by observing it’s effects. This makes
Read More Shared by Nick Milton May 26, 2017