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Video Killed the Enterprise Productivity Star
I used to love when a substitute teacher walked into my classroom when I was in grammar school, because instead of taking notes about chlorophyll and atoms, we’d get to watch Bill Nye the Science Guy and Reading Rainbow. Students weren’t very productive on substitute teacher days.
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How Knowledge Sharing Drives Better Business and Collaboration
Knowledge management (KM) and digital asset management (DAM) initiatives have a lot in common. Both aim to manage assets that create value across the enterprise, and both aim to help individuals find and reuse these assets.
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Digital Records Are More Than the Sum of Their Parts
Increasing volumes of digital records (aka ‘big data’) have led, through information practices, to very large managed information collections where the whole may be greater than the sum of its parts. The collection is an artifact (an aggregate object) that may have the potential for emergent properties.
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Innovation: The Elephant in the Room
Chances are, innovation is a strategic objective of your organization, if not exactly spelled out in those terms. It might be an overarching statement to encourage people to work smarter, or plans for a culture change program, an idea capture exercise, or even training in skills such as design thinking.
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For an Intelligent Workplace, Think Proficiency, Not Efficiency
Essentially every business today is at some stage of digitalization, striving to increase their workforce's efficiency and productivity. However, as markets evolve, efficiency alone will not keep businesses thriving.
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How Microsoft Supports Knowledge Management in the Cloud
Microsoft has followed through with its promises to increase the rate of releases coming out of Redmond, Wash. In the last month alone we've seen a lot of updates and releases, with new tools and new features and functionality introduced in popular tools.
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How Intranets Help Fight Corporate Amnesia
The phrase "knowledge is power" has become such a cliché, it's easy to dismiss its truth. We sometimes forget just how crucial knowledge is for culture, society and, of course, business. Accumulated organizational knowledge is called corporate memory.
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Don't Force Your Employees to Learn or Share Knowledge
“Don’t force it” is one of the best lessons you can learn — in life, in love and, of course, in knowledge management. Knowledge management, the practice of aggregating and sharing knowledge across an organization, is one of the most beneficial initiatives a company can take to optimize their processes.
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Turn Knowledge Management Inside Out: Bring in the Customer Perspective
Since I first came on the scene as a knowledge manager in 2008, knowledge managers have debated (and debated) the purpose of knowledge management (KM).
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Can Documize Solve Knowledge Managers' Woes?
Creating, editing, reviewing, approving and reading documents takes up a large part of most peoples workdays.
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Why Your Company Needs Knowledge Sharing and Continuous Learning
Industrialist Andrew Carnegie once said, “The only irreplaceable capital an organization possesses is the knowledge and ability of its people. The productivity of that capital depends on how effectively people share their competence with those who can use it.” More so than ever, this statement holds true.
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Knowledge Management Will Change Your Business Strategies
Knowledge management is often categorized as an IT solution in the form of intranets, wikis, forums, community spaces and other web 2.0 collaboration tools. And while addressing knowledge management (KM) as an IT function may be common, it can limit the potential outcomes that can significantly impact your business strategy.
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How Do We Keep Up, Let Alone Innovate?
The road to the future is constantly accelerating. That theme underlay two recent — and on the surface very different — events. The Conference Board of Canada’s Council on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM) held it’s one and a half day event in Toronto, with KM practitioners, captains of industry
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Wikimedia's Lila Tretikov: Freedom of Information for All
As executive director of the Wikimedia Foundation — publisher of Wikipedia, the world’s fifth largest website — Lila Tretikov leads a nonprofit organization that boldly asks its users to “imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge.
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