When Peer Assists add value

Favorite Peer Assists are one of the most powerful processes in KM, but they are not for every occasion. A  Peer Assist – a meeting when a project team seeks input of knowledge and advice from experienced peers – is one of the most effective tools in the KM armoury. It is demand-driven,

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Shared by Nick Milton April 27, 2017

KM value delivery through problem solving

Favorite Much of the value delivered through Knowledge Management comes as a result of solving problems. “How do you show the value of Knowledge Management?” Yet another client was asking me the same question – how can you demonstrate the value? I had just quoted to him Shell’s claim that they deliver

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Shared by Nick Milton April 26, 2017

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

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Shared by Nick Milton April 24, 2017

This blog is on holiday

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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

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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

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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

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Shared by Nick Milton April 3, 2017