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Why Knowledge Management Didn’t Save General Motors: Addressing Complex Issues By Convening Conversation

Conversation Matters

GM was brought down by a flawed strategy, but an organization’s strategy is clearly a product of the knowledge that exists within its walls. The knowledge existed within GM to develop a more competitive strategy. The knowledge management task is to bring together the collective knowledge of the organization to bear on complex issues.

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KM professorship at Kent State

Knowledge Musings

The Kent State University program on Information Architecture and Knowledge Management has announced a new professorship, sponsored by Goodyear: IAKM Accepting Applications for Goodyear Professor Position. The Master's Program in Information Architecture and Knowledge Management is a unique, innovative program inaugurated in Fall 2001.

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KM in Global Services

Knowledge Musings

At the start of the meeting, we enjoyed a nice conversation about what each of us are doing with knowledge management. Gian Jagai of Hitachi Global Services was the main speaker discussed the entertaining topic of " So You Were Just Promoted to Knowledge Manager - Now What?

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Transparent Office: In-the-Flow and Above-the-Flow

Transparent Office

» December 26, 2007 In-the-Flow and Above-the-Flow I often hear from wiki champions inside organizations that "Its hard to get people to use wikis" Theres something right about that comment, but also something wrong. That was one of the great (if depressing) learnings of the Knowledge Management movement.

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Whatever happened to.?

Knowledge Musings

The article in question is ' Knowledge Management: The Role of Technology'. With Groove 2007 now being part of the Microsoft Office 2007 suite (enterprise edition) we may hear more of it again. I was asked last week by Jerry Ash, editor of InsideKnowledge , to contribute an article on IT as an enabler of KM.

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The Bamboo Project Blog: Welcome to Employee Learning Week: Seeing Yourself as a Learner

The Bamboo Project Blog

Posted by: Robin Reagler | December 03, 2007 at 12:41 PM Thanks, Robin--I was one of those kids in school who asked a lot of questions and never raised her hand, but unfortunately most teachers didn't care for that. Posted by: Michele Martin | December 03, 2007 at 01:26 PM Michele, You model the model of learning too!

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The Bamboo Project Blog: Seven Strategies for Supporting Personal Learning Environments at Work

The Bamboo Project Blog

Read More] Tracked on August 17, 2007 at 08:30 AM Comments You can follow this conversation by subscribing to the comment feed for this post. I am constantly running into it in my consulting, and spend a lot of time helping people first manage it themselves, then devising ways to help them help their employees manage it.