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Tag: knowledge management (page 3)
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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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The Force Is Weak on Information Management
Think Star Wars — and you probably don't think information management. But throughout the entire Star Wars series there have been epic instances of bad information management and disastrous knowledge management (not to mention abysmal information security, but that’s for a different article).
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Avoiding Brain Drain Is Harder Than It Sounds
Every organization — be it large or small — has experts who know better than anyone else how things work. They are the go-to people — the ones who have the answer to your burning questions.
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World Forum: AI Should Automate ‘White-Collar’ Work
Now that special-purpose algorithms are doing a better job of driving cars, a distinguished professor in AI suggests, they might be repurposed for replacing lawyers.
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Knowledge Management Has Moved On, So Should We
They say any publicity is good publicity. So with that in mind, thank you Seth G … thanks for citing my blog post. I understand that this is a little friendly debate between Seths (perhaps Seth Maislin can chime in). And I know you are being provocative.
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Preparing for the Future of Knowledge Management
In a December 2014 press release, International Data Corporation senior vice president and chief analyst Frank Gens predicted that the worldwide information and telecommunications industry would continue to grow due to the new wave of information, cloud, big data and mobility solutions, but that the underlying story driving this growth
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Connecting All the Information Dots Through Search
What if I told you that there was a magical integration piece that could pull together information management, collaboration, big data analytics and knowledge management — would you believe me? I read a book recently which made me think about the people, processes and technology it would take.
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