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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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Most Important Developments for 1/22

GetFive

Since 2004, Google engineers get to spend 20% of their time pursuing projects of their own creation. Over 50% of Google’s largest revenue-generating products have come out of “20% time,” including AdSense, Gmail, Google Maps, Google News, Google Earth, and Gmail Labs. And this experiment has produced incredible results.

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Google Insights first look

Knowledge Musings

We're digging around with Insights at work to check our products against the competition, so this is a nice opportunity to give a quick overview. A default check for knowledge management shows a normalized interest over time graph. What about a comparison of a term like knowledge management with web 2.0 since 2004?

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

Zenefits

When an individual worker learns new skills or ideas , productivity and performance generally improve. 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. Transfer the knowledge. Inter-organizational. Individual Learning.

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4 Great Ways to Conduct Peer Assists: Transferring Knowledge Effectively

Conversation Matters

Sales Force. In 2004 Mars Inc., The challenge was to achieve a step-change in the number of small retail outlets which sold Mars products in order to drive a rapid increase in sales in these markets. billion potential consumers of Mars products.

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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.