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Favorite A recent paper from the Gartner group seems to contain two basic assumptions about knowledge management which I think are worth addressing. See what you think. The Gartner paper is entitled Automate Knowledge Management With Data Science to Enable the Learning Organization, and contains the following blocks of text:
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Shared by Nick Milton June 27, 2018
Favorite Here is an interesting report on the use of KM in supporting IT service desks in the US and the UK. For the detail, please see the report, but some of the highlights are below: Knowledge management is the second-most adopted process for IT support organizations after Incident Management
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Favorite What is the price, or cost, of your knowledge inventory? In fact, you already pay the cost without knowing it. Creative commons image from pxhere Let’s look at the cost of acquiring and maintaining the inventory of tacit and explicit knowledge. Tacit knowledge As people become more experienced (through
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Favorite Here’s a story about how Knowledge can be found in the Long Tail within a community of practice. I blogged recently about the Long Tail of Knowledge, and how a Community of Practice can find answers and advice from practitioners other than the core group of company experts. Here
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Favorite When we set up our KM systems, lets make it as simple as possible for the knowledge-seeker. Let’s aim for the one-stop shop. Image from geograph.org.uk It is common for Knowledge Managers to start to plan their KM systems based on the supply of knowledge, or based on the
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Favorite Here is another reprieve from the archives, looking at the 2 ways in which KM can add value. There are two ways in which Knowledge Management can add value to an organisation, and we can look at them in this way: Finding Knowledge Better; Finding Better Knowledge. The first
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Favorite Here’s a neat video from Xerox describing their Customer-focused KM approach View Original Source (nickmilton.com) Here.
Favorite Here is a sad story, about how trying to save costs in KM destroyed value. The moral of the story is about hopw bring people together face to face and letting them experience the knowledge for themseves, in context, established the necessary credibility for re-use. The organisation in question
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Favorite From this published article comes three examples of quantified value from KM. Image from wikimedia commons The article is entitled “Assessing the Business Value of Knowledge Retention Projects: Results of Four Case Studies”, and much of it comes from the work of Larry Todd Wilson, who operates a Knowledge Harvesting
Read More Shared by Nick Milton June 14, 2018
Favorite Found this at OWC (MacSales.com), a DIY Guide to switching out Mac hard drives without losing your data — the very thing I’ll be doing one of these weekends to fit Battlefront II on my bootcamp partition (as Battlefront I is currently taking all the space). .. Upgrading the
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Shared by Friends of Mayor Densmore June 14, 2018