Leadership ‘Best Practice’? Developing KM with Indiana CPA Society

I’m sitting in as on observer in the INCPAS Annual Business Meeting in Indiana at the moment.  Listening to their plans to respond to the wider business environment, the importance of knowledge as a resource and the potential importance for Knowledge Management to act as a response, I have a warm feeling of pride. This [...]

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Video: Why are we doing KM? (Indiana CPA Society interview)

A video produced by the Indiana CPA Society highlighting some of the work that we are doing to assist them as they move towards the development of a Knowledge Management system for society members.

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KM Business Planning

This diagram is from work we are doing on the KM Professional Development Course at the University of Edinburgh.  A couple of the things we are focused on is gaining a better insight into the signals that drive the need for the KM function and ways in which people gather intelligence to build the internal/external [...]

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Free K-Net Event (July 12th) – The Organizational Zoo

We would like to invite you to a free K-Net event on Thursday, July 12th from 13:30 – 16:30 at Patterson’s Land, Moray House, University of Edinburgh. We are pleased to have Arthur Shelley from Organizational Zoo in Australia as our guest speaker.  Arthur was the global Knowledge Manager for Cadbury Schweppes, before setting up [...]

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How to predict success

Often we are asked to guide an organisation towards the ‘right’ decision, or, putting it simply, to predict success. So what is the secret to this prediction?  All too often, it is just down to common sense… For the organisation, faced with an informed evidence-based choice, it comes down to having to make a critical [...]

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The KM Value Pyramid

One of the common themes that has surfaced lately, 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 by impact, cost and ROI. Too many [...]

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Award Winner at the Emerald Literati Network Awards for Excellence 2012

We are thrilled to announce that our research into general constructs for KM practice (Scaling the fractal plain, towards a general model for KM, published in the Journal of European Industrial Training) has been chosen as an Award Winner at the Emerald Literati Network Awards for Excellence 2012. We were notified that the paper was [...]

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Chasing Unicorns: The KM Myth

Almost three weeks without a blog – lots of travelling…time flies! I had dinner in Helsinki with someone relatively new to KM, David Gurteen and an experienced KMer from Dubai.  And you know something, we’re having the same conversations all over the world.  What is KM?  What is the silver bullet for curing knowledge sharing?  [...]

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Demystifying the Complex, adaptive, agile and dynamic [Part 2 - The KEn Diagram]

The KEn Diagram (Knowledge Environment), below,  is one of the resources that we use, both on the KM Professional Development Certificates and when explaining the Knowledge Environment to organisations.  I’m posting it to compliment the last post on demystifying the complex, adaptive, agile and dynamic – Hope you find it useful…

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Demystifying the Complex, adaptive, agile and dynamic

*Update – The themes in this blog are illustrated in the KEn Diagram (part 2 of this blog) Recently I was sent through a presentation on ‘Agile’ and its links to complexity by Jean Tabaka; I found it very interesting, but, at the same time, I honestly believe that, when it comes to complexity, we [...]

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