Six tips to improve the best free Knowledge Management tool available today Posted by David Griffiths Conversation, the lubricant for knowledge flow So, what is the best free Knowledge Management tool? Conversation! Conversation is the lubricant to knowledge exchange and, in ...

I received an email this morning, letting me know that I had been mentioned as one of “the top 1oo names to know in KM” (2013 Top 11 Influencers in KM) in a report produced by MindTouch. MindTouch are a US based company and it is always nice to be recognised -  being ranked 29th ...

Get it right or the consequences could end up in critical failure This is a quick blog about the perils of IT implementation. I have just been sent an email on the four types of approach that a company can take when deploying a new IT platform (see below). The email comes from an IT ...

  Whether you are a team leader or a team manager, your team should be your priority. Is there a team to lead or manage, though? How do you build an effective, high-performing team? What should this team mean to your company? If you are not able to define the goal and scope of ...

http://hbr.org/2013/01/spotlight-on-the-future-of-knowledge-work/ar/1 http://www.wipro.com/documents/Staats_Upton_Lean_Knowledge%20Work.pdf

  Having spent Sunday morning in a modern cafe, located in the city centre of London, I realized that I had suddenly found myself in the middle of a diverse, multicultural working environment...for baristas, waiters, assistant managers and supervisors were all of different ethnicities. ...

  We live  in a new era, a newly-shaped market, a new economy. There are certain new rules that drive this new economy towards the direction of knowledge. The new economy is often referred as “knowledge economy” and it’s mainly focused on the arrival of knowledge ...

  During one of my recent conversations with other HR professionals, I realised that one of the hot topics troubling the businesses and especially HR departments today is the definition of “leadership” and the differentiation between good and bad leadership. A simple definition ...

  Every single HR professional, apart from different skills and competences, has his/her own personality. This leads to a variety of attributes that are driven by personal differentiating characteristics. The only way to get to know these attributes and get the most out of every HR ...

  Being engaged to new technologies introduced in organisations today, has brought me one step closer to explore the relevance of HRD with new methods of learning and development, one of them being e-learning, which has a significant contribution on personnel development. Electronic ...

I’ve been talking lately about individual/collective competency building and the challenge becomes, how to develop competencies through day-to-day, on-the-job learning.  More than this, it is bout the ongoing learning and development of organisational knowledge resources. For me the ...

The course has been designed with four types of audience in mind: I. Individuals looking to improve their personal career trajectory. Individuals can use the information and methods in this toolkit to make better sense of their work environment. In working through the methods, ...

Knowledge Management says someone.  Go forth and capture knowledge says another.  Why? Do you ever wonder if you are just wasting valuable energy and resources on solutions where there was never a problem in the first place?  No? Perhaps you should. Knowledge Management is the ...

The economic environment is a diverse ecosystem that, while threatened by ‘extinction events’ such as the banking crisis, endures and evolves; though clusters of strong ties exist, demonstrated by the domino effect brought about by the sub-prime lending fiasco, the ecosystem survives ...

One of the common themes that has surfaces in conversations from Helsinki to Indianapolis, to Washington DC to Norfolk (VA), has been the need to move from talking of ‘feelings’, when discussing the value of KM, and the development of the KM value proposition, to conversations driven ...

I was recently reading a blog by Nassim Taleb, where he decried the lack of understanding surrounding his book, ‘Black Swan’ when it was originally launched in 2007 – apparently too many people thinking it was about the prediction of outliers (black swans).  I’m ...

Information and knowledge cannot escape human agency I was speaking with a colleague in the Middle East this week and it never ceases to surprise me that there is still confusion around data, information and knowledge – the prevailing opinion being that all three can be managed ...

“'Elementary', he said". This is about reasoning, as it applies to solving complex problems in organisations. For those of you about to switch off, give it a chance.  You’ll be surprised to find out that there is a lot of academic posturing over something ...

Organisations need to manage the boundaries of their operations if they are to coordinate their knowledge resources and, in doing so, become more dynamic, agile and adaptive. This boundary management means engagement with human resources (take a look at my latest keynote upload for more on ...