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Leveraging Collective Knowledge: NASA’s Constellation Program

Conversation Matters

They experienced the sad recognition that much of the knowledge about how to build the Saturn V rocket that took the astronauts to the moon, had retired along with the engineers who had been encouraged to take early retirement. David Delong wrote about NASA' loss in Lost Knowledge , Oxford Press 2004.

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What is an intranet? The definitive explanation

ThoughtFarmer

It’s a website, communications channel, knowledge management tool, culture tool, and collaboration platform. It helps people work better by combining the best features of wikis, blogs, document and content management systems. was popularized in 2004, it represented a huge shift in the way digital information was managed.

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Google Insights first look

Knowledge Musings

A default check for knowledge management shows a normalized interest over time graph. It's been fairly stable over the last year, but if I go back as far as I can (2004-Present), the interest in KM appears to be steadily declining, as shown below. What about a comparison of a term like knowledge management with web 2.0

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Part II “We Know More Than We Can Say: How to Use Tacit Knowledge

Conversation Matters

Rob Cross and Lee Sproull conducted a study in 2004 that looked at the benefits that accrued to people who had a conversation with a colleague about a relatively ambiguous issue each was facing. These seekers were project managers in a large consulting firm. The vendor said, ''This will take you 10 months''.

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What is Organizational Learning (And Why is it Important?)

Zenefits

According to The Toyota Way by Jeffrey Liker (2004) , this company looks at every problem as an opportunity to identify root causes and develop countermeasures. There are a number of steps managers can take to promote organizational learning. Create knowledge. Transfer the knowledge. Remember our Toyota example above?