If you're someone who's paid to help your organization work smarter, odds are you get invited to lots of trade shows and conferences. Here legions of knowledge professionals are encouraged to spend down their training and travel budgets for the exhibit booths and break-out sessions of...
Knowledge management -- the buzzword of decades past that might be synonymous with other buzzwords like collective intelligence or intellectual capital. Or maybe you've heard of tacit and explicit knowledge -- differentiating between what is in our heads vs what's written down
If these privileged communications are now moving outside of the corporate sphere of control, into disparate social networking and instant messaging tools, an organizations ability to manage their intellectual capital is greatly attenuated
They are seeking “ valuable enterprise intellectual capital ” Which includes the huge chunks of information that come across our desks and devices everyday AND those seemingly inconsequential tidbits that can make or break a decision cycle
If an organization has only one and not the other it is detrimental to the company’s future intellectual capital. As Mr. Sterling says, “design and construct for change rather than longevity
Some of the drivers around KM efforts include: • sharing valuable organizational insights • avoiding redundancy of effort • reducing on-boarding time and learning curves for new employees • retaining intellectual capital due to turnover or aging work force • adapting to changing customer demands, environments and markets So what do these drivers have to do with SharePoint?
Scripting the Cues For starters we're not trading in abstractions like those placeholders for the intellectual capital that people carry around in their heads
Likewise, most haven’t made much headway in tapping into the intellectual capital that exists within their own ecosystem, via the use of an internal corporate social network (including personal profiles for all employees)
It’s all about KM – about managing an organization or a company’s intellectual capital. But we can’t “manage” something like that
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