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3 Reasons Conversational Technology Should Be on Your Radar

HRExecutive

I ask her when my next meeting is, how long it will take me to drive somewhere, to play the “HR Happy Hour Show” and lots more. McKinsey research in 2012 estimated that knowledge workers spend as much as 1.8 While there have been numerous advances in enterprise knowledge management since 2001 that make that 1.8

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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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Three Books Every KM Professional Should Read

Conversation Matters

They are: Teaming: How Organizations Learn, Innovate, and Compete in the Knowledge Economy , 2012, by Amy Edmondson, a Harvard Professor of Organizational Learning. Critical Knowledge Transfer: Tools for Managing Your Company’s Deep Smarts, 2015, by Dorothy Leonard, Walter Swat, and Gavin Barton.

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What collaboration really means

ThoughtFarmer

Unfortunately, many of these systems (while meeting our definition of collaboration) aren’t always easy to use. Intranet software can improve not just collaboration, but communication, cooperation, coordination, idea-sharing, team communication, knowledge management and more.

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KM Principles at the US Army

Knowledge Musings

The US Army has a set of Knowledge Management Principles and an accompanying paper (pdf) that describes the details (date stamped June 2008). Train and educate leaders, managers and champions. Reward knowledge sharing and make knowledge management a career-enhancing activity. Their principles are.

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4 Great Ways to Conduct Peer Assists: Transferring Knowledge Effectively

Conversation Matters

They have agreed to meet on Wednesday, one month from now, in Stavanger, Norway to spend the day. . On the meeting day, Helen starts by defining what her team wants from the Peer Assist. She lays out their objectives for the meeting. The meetings were focused on sharing, learning lessons, and discussing.

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Three Books Every KM Professional Should Read

Conversation Matters

They are: Teaming: How Organizations Learn, Innovate, and Compete in the Knowledge Economy , 2012, by Amy Edmondson, a Harvard Professor of Organizational Learning. Critical Knowledge Transfer: Tools for Managing Your Company’s Deep Smarts, 2015, by Dorothy Leonard, Walter Swat, and Gavin Barton.