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Favorite There are 3 unusual cases where conversation is not important to KM, but they are rare! Conversation, by Valery Kenski, on Flickr This blog has often argued that conversation is as important as content in KM, that conversation is at the heart of effective knowledge transfer, and that without conversation
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Shared by Nick Milton December 12, 2019
Favorite Amazon Polly turns text into lifelike speech for voice-enabled applications. AWS is excited to announce the general availability of all Neural Text-to-Speech (NTTS) voices in the Asia Pacific (Sydney) Region. These voices deliver groundbreaking improvements in speech quality through a new machine learning approach. If you are in the
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Shared by AWS Machine Learning December 12, 2019
Favorite Just doing KM well is not enough, you have to do KM at the required speed. Public domain image from Pixnio The world is changing, and organisations need to learn faster than the speed of change if they are to survive. According to Erick Thompson, assistant VP for knowledge
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Favorite Auto manufacturers are continuously adding new controls, interfaces, and intelligence into their vehicles. They publish manuals detailing how to use these functions, but these handbooks are cumbersome. Because they consist of hundreds of pages in several languages, it can be difficult to search for relevant information about specific features.
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Favorite In a project-based organisation, we can look at Knowledge Management on two orthogonal axes which together map out the space within which knowledge flows. These are the in-project axis and the cross-project axis. Imagine a large project-based organisation, with multi-disciplinary projects operating in many different regions or divisions. KM
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Favorite Mature KM is a mixture of attitude, habit, and framework. If you visited an organisation that had truly embraced and embedded Knowledge Management, what would you see? What would be different and distinctive about that organisation? You would probably notice 3 things – attitudes, habits, and a solid KM
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Favorite There are a number of strategic approaches that you can apply when implementing Knowledge Management. All have their failings – we recommend a combination of two of them. There are many and varied ways to introduce KM to a company, and a lot of these fail. The main 6
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Favorite Today at AWS re:Invent 2019, I’m excited to announce the AWS Machine Learning (ML) Embark program to help companies transform their development teams into machine learning practitioners. AWS ML Embark is based on Amazon’s own experience scaling the use of machine learning inside its own operations as well as
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Favorite I blogged recently about Connect and Collect – the two parallel approaches to transfer of knowledge. Now let’s look in more depth about the two modes by which knowledge is carried – Content and Conversation. Kids of conversation by Kris Hoet on Flickr During the Connect approach we facilitate
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Favorite The lesson learning system should be a supply chain for new knowledge. But how do you calculate its effectiveness? We can look at lesson learning as a supply chain; identifying new pieces of knowledge and supplying them to other knowledge workers so they can improve their work. If it
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