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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
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Shared by Nick Milton January 30, 2019
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
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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
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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,
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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
Read More Shared by Nick Milton January 25, 2019
Favorite As a project learns, it goes through 4 stages (see Donald Rumsfeld) I blogged yesterday about the need for knowledge transfer between a project and an organisation. This post goes a little further, and talks about the development of knowledge within a project. The diagram here shows how KM
Read More Shared by Nick Milton January 24, 2019
Favorite Projects and the wider organisation are linked in a Knowledge-handling cycle Please note, in this article you can replace the word “project” with “department” or “division” or “team” or “office” throughout. The Boston Square here is one that I have used with projects as part of their Knowledge Management
Read More Shared by Nick Milton January 23, 2019
Favorite If you want to keep your job as a knowledge manager, then ensure you are directly supporting the front line staff. Being a Knowledge Manager is a precarious place to be, until KM is fully embedded. Any major organisation change such as a merger or a change in CEO
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Favorite I think it is well established that introducing Knowledge Management is an exercise in culture change, but can KM itself change culture? In this summary of findings from an Oxford Review research study, the answer is a qualified Yes. The research in question, available to subscribers of the Oxford
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Favorite Knowledge Management is fully embedded when refusing to do it is not an option. Let me give you an analogy, from the world of Safety. A couple of years ago I was conducting knowledge management exercises at a gas plant in the Niger Delta. In places like this, safety
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