“KM Fairy Tales” (Managing Partner Magazine June/July, 2011)

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“KM is dead! Long live knowledge!” Inside Knowledge (Thought Leader) June/July 2011 Vol 14(9)

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Learning about tomorrow to know about today

This week’s contribution is from Peter Evans… I thought I’d discuss scenario planning and how it can contribute to adaptive capacity through developing organisational learning and knowledge. Scenario planning is a way making sense about possible futures through developing, or authoring, and telling stories. These stories are a way of trying to link the uncertainties [...]

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How to ‘make’ people share knowledge!

Time to put my money where my mouth is; I’ve been challenged a few times now to show how you can ‘make’ people share knowledge or take part in organisational knowledge and learning (KM) processes – this is building on our past blog, “For KM’s sake, get the people factor right!“. Fair enough… You can’t! [...]

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Getting KM right! (4 Functions and 12 Constructs)

For a while now we have talked about the need to manage the ‘whole’ KM process. We’re not the only ones, this article in The Hindu, an interview with Sandhya Shekhar, the CEO of the Chennai-based IIT Madras Research Park, shows that people are talking about the same things, but the way to operationalise the “weaving” [...]

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Knowledge: Best enjoyed socially

Peter Evans builds on the popular conversation from last week’s blog… Knowledge is produced in action and as such relies on people, how they understand what they do, what they use to do what they do and from there, making KM explicit to them and to the firm. In other words, knowledge is social. Key [...]

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