Ricky Cheong has posted a slideshare presentation of his research progress on Personal Knowledge Management.
All in knowledge management
Ricky Cheong has posted a slideshare presentation of his research progress on Personal Knowledge Management.
If the business world is moving toward a networked reality and we find ourselves working with people from all walks of life and all corners of the globe, then our ability to work together is going to be exercised more and more.
The HBR blog has a piece on knowledge workers and how executives look at their employees: Are All Employees Knowledge Workers? by John Hagel III, John Seely Brown, and Lang Davison.
A Robert Scoble video interview with Lisa Petrides of ISKME, where they talk about education and technology and a pending revolution. A number of discussion elements touch on knowledge management too.
Why don't people speak up and ask questions? Is it the standard list of concerns around why people lurk? Euan Semple suggests there is something else going on in the sociology of people: they are afraid to speak their mind.
Pointers to a couple case studies on process improvement from MIT and focusing on a division of Ford Motor Complany.
James Robertson's "Knowledge managers: stuck in the shadow of immortal figures" has inspired some interesting discussion, both on his blog and in at least one email discussion list.
Even ten years ago, people were saying technology is only an enabler for knowledge management. Is it changing? Yes, and no. Let's see what Chris Collison has to say about the question.
There are many modes of participation in a community. Talk of lurking and the opposite seems rather one-sided.
How often do knowledge management efforts get bogged down in the technology? Here's a current media example of the inevitable result. Toyota Europe knew about and fixed a problem a year before a US recall for the same problem.
Expertise is about experience and knowledge, and experience and knowledge are rather difficult to stuff into a database.
When you are looking for experts, you want to find out who the experts are and their areas of expertise. But you also want to learn how they know it and how they are at working with other people. How do they operate?
Just think. If you write in public, it is both easier to find you AND when they do, the conversation can be at a higher level. Luis Suarez makes me think.
You have to be careful with "culture" discussions because they can lead you down some strange paths. Ana Neves has an interesting discussion around knowledge management, and I see them applying to just about anything that wants a specific culture as part of the strategy.
There are a lot of interesting conversations happening recently about knowledge management and the value of knowledge sharing or knowledge collecting and what it all means. KM is about taking action.
Jim McGee points to an interesting interview with Jordan Frank on the idea that we have a "responsibility to collaborate" with one another. I see it both from the perspective of the individual and of the organization as a whole.
The Enterprise 2.0 Conference is attempting to use the concepts to help organize the Boston conference.
Teleos and Rory Chase have announced their 2009 Global MAKE winners. Congratulations to all the organizations. There are many familiar names in the list from years past.
Dale Arsenault gives us a straightforward description of collaboration in "8 Things You Need to Know About Collaboration."
Inspired by a comment from Robert Lavigne, "Sharing of new found knowledge is the responsibility of all knowledge workers." While many people see KM as all about the "management" and "collection" of knowledge, I have always seen it as about informing as many people as possible about what is going on / what is going through the organizational mind.