In today’s world we tend to focus on the tools that enable knowledge transfer. In many organizations KM is referred to by tools name; we use SharePoint for KM, or we teach in Blackboard, or I network on LinkedIn, or I publish in blogs like WordPress. Sometimes so much so that organizations begin to believe that the tool is KM or that it provides the collaboration or knowledge transfer. These tools are no more KM today than the Guttenberg printing press was KM when it enabled publishing, or the Pony Express was KM when it began mail service from east to west coast in the U.S., or the telephone was KM when it enabled voice connections and party lines, or the television when it revolutionized information transfer from one to many. The tools change, and always will, but the goal of knowledge transfer remains the same, and so does human active participation. No matter the tool it is up to you, the individual, to actively participate in the transfer of information and knowledge
KM people and organizational gurus romanticize that most hallowed of all transactions between two human brains -- the knowledge transfer. In my knowledge neighborhood that's an act of sincerest desperation: Who's been down the road I'm on?
Why do we collaborate? A simple question, but can you answer it? I asked around the office and I got some interesting answers. Here's a sampling: I collaborate to get buy-in I collaborate to get answers I collaborate to get acceptance of my ideas I...
Here’s my top 10 SharePoint automation list: Self-service granting/removing access – The most common task a container will go through is the granting of permissions and removing of permissions to that container so users can be part of the collaboration. Self-service transferring/cloning access – The ability to transfer permissions from one individual to another or give someone the same permissions as another user is a very common scenario
This week I was faced with one of the harsh realities of life, death. My uncle unexpectedly passed away and I, along with my wife, accompanied my mother to the services. All in all it was a very fitting tribute to his life which included a career in the military highlighted by the Honors...
He breaks down an organization’s knowledge management project potential into five categories: business impact, business advocacy, transferability and reach, feasibility, and relationship to strategic objectives
Instead, it is the lack of awareness from people that records are also your knowledge warehouse so that you can learn from the past, capture your transactions of today and transfer them as lessons to the future
In my own life I am reminded on how we developed training and evaluation programs for knowledge transfer between the Air Force Airborne Communications Systems Operators who flew on the Special Air Mission (SAM) VIP aircraft out of Andrews AFB back when I was in the Air Force in the 1986 – 1995 timeframe
Next to normal regulatory efforts to implement information retention, transfer and destruction, we also need to valuate, categorize, enrich and disclose our information to help knowledge workers to be as productive as possible
But what passive knowledge transfers are captured in this no-questions-asked drop between the knowledge orphanage ( document library ) and the plateless get-away car ( project team deliverables )?
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