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Knowledge Management: Add Project Management To the Process

HR Bartender

Estimated reading time: 4 minutes Knowledge management is the process of organizing, using, and sharing knowledge within the organization. According to IBM, there are three types of knowledge: tacit, implicit, and explicit. Tacit knowledge is acquired through experience. Keynote speaker Michael Kannisto, Ph.D.

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How to capture institutional knowledge

Insperity

However, when a well-tenured person does retire or resign, a substantial reserve of company-specific insights may be lost. That is, unless you have a system for regularly capturing institutional knowledge. What is institutional knowledge? We see institutional knowledge as a good thing (until it’s not).

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7 Reasons HR Needs to Learn About Unretirement

HR Bartender

Years ago, people just retired. They announced to their boss that they were going to retire. It’s the idea that you don’t have to retire. Knowledge Management : Retaining workers, even in a part-time or contingent status, allows the organization to retain knowledge. And it’s not necessarily age-based.

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The Great Generational Shift: How Employers and Managers Can Prepare

Everwise

The Boomers are filling up an “age bubble” in the workforce such that there are many more people at or near the ordinary age range for retirement. Flexible work conditions, learning/knowledge management, pay-for-performance, and coaching-style leadership will be the keys to being an “employer of choice” for in-demand talent.

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Knowledge management: Fuel for the social enterprise

Bersin with Deloitte

Knowledge management can be a key that unlocks all of these qualities in an organization while making it possible for people to do more, more effectively, and with less effort. Lots of knowledge, not a lot of management. High volumes of Baby Boomers are retiring and taking institutional knowledge with them.

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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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The Increased Prevalence of DC Pension Plans is Going to Change the Way We Retire. How to Prepare?

Something Different

<www.forbes.com> …Okay, so this evening I was reading a white paper from Aon Hewitt (you can find it here ) that states the following: One of the key findings from this research is that there appears to be a welcome sense of realism among employees about their retirement prospects. This is heady stuff. This is heady stuff.