Archive for the ‘Knowledge mgmt’ Category

Wednesday, January 20th, 2010

Whitepaper – Using Enterprise 2.0 to prepare for recovery

  Gregory Culpin

In a business world where change is constant, knowledge becomes an essential asset for any organization. Survival and growth require the development of solutions that will optimize collaboration and knowledge management.

Focussing on this topic we recently produced our first whitepaper. It analyses the benefits associated with the introduction of Enterprise 2.0 solutions, and positions the collaborative management of knowledge as a stable and lasting solution, especially in these times of economic tumult.

Read the full article at blog.whatever-company.com

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Monday, April 20th, 2009

When Knowledge Management Hurts

  Gregory Culpin

The advice to derive from this research? Shut down your expensive document databases; they tend to do more harm than good. They are a nuisance, impossible to navigate, and you can’t really store anything meaningful in them anyway, since real knowledge is quite impossible to put onto a piece of paper.

Yet, do maintain your systems that help people identify and contact experts in your firm, because that can be beneficial, at least for people who lack experience. Therefore, make sure to only give your rookies the password.

Read the full article at blogs.harvardbusiness.org

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Friday, March 20th, 2009

Social Networking Within the Enterprise

  Jenny Lwabandji Kindja

Burton Group, a research and consulting firm focused on in-depth analysis of enterprise information technologies, has conducted a detailed field study analyzing social networking within the enterprise.

Almost universally, organizations participating in the study felt they were behind their competitors — or the market in general — when it came to internal social networking initiatives. Based on the results of this study, Burton Group concludes that such perceptions are unfounded. Many organizations are yet to make an enterprise-wide decision on social networking tools. Even in those organizations that have set a direction, many of those projects are in proof-of-concept or early stages of deployment.

Read the full article at ccsblog.burtongroup.com

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Thursday, March 12th, 2009

SharePoint 2007: Gateway Drug to Enterprise Social Tools

  Thomas Vander Wal

The last couple of years I have had many conversations with a broad selection of mid-sized to large organizations. Some of these are customers of mine or potential customers while others are conversations I have had, but all having the similar discussion about social tools in the enterprise. What follows is a collection of snippets from those conversations regarding Microsoft SharePoint 2007, most are not publicly attributed as they were not intended to be “on the record”.

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Monday, March 9th, 2009

The Practical Wisdom of Ikujiro Nonaka

  Elena Benito Ruiz

To help corporations create knowledge more consciously, the author of Managing Flow draws on Western and Eastern philosophic traditions.

Read the full article at www.strategy-business.com

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Thursday, March 5th, 2009

Knowledge workers behind times with collaboration

  Olivier Verbeke

Technologies that are over a decade old are hampering the way that knowledge workers collaborate but there is still a long way to go before firms are brought up to speed with 21st century IT…

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Tuesday, January 27th, 2009

Is Knowledge Management Just Overhead For Law Firms?

  Eric Rodriguez

Where does knowledge management fit in this climate for law firms? Key points:

  • The efficiency gains from KM should be welcomed when clients are more likely to challenge every item on the bill.
  • With layoffs (whether formal or performance-based) it is important to transfer the knowledge from individual lawyers to teams of lawyers.
  • KM can allow senior lawyers to delegate more to junior lawyers, allowing the senior lawyers to focus on client relationships.
  • Use KM to increase the level of client service.
  • With extra capacity is some areas, it is a great time for law firms to use that capacity on knowledge management activities.
  • Focus on expanding the use of existing systems instead of going out and purchasing something new.

Read the full article at kmspace.blogspot.com

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Tuesday, January 27th, 2009

Wikis In Law Firms

  Thomas Vander Wal

In early October 2008, with another legal KM practitioner, I gave a presentation on wikis to an experienced group of legal knowledge managers. Although about a third of the audience had wikis internally, there were still some people without significant practical experience with wikis.

The talk was organized in three parts. I started with an introduction to wikis, starting from the beginning, and highlighting their key features. My colleague then presented on her firm’s innovative use of Thoughtfarmer wikis. Then I discussed how my firm is leveraging Sharepoint wikis.

Read the full article at caselines.blogspot.com

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Tuesday, January 13th, 2009

Moving Up the Down Escalator: Tackling Corporate Memory

  Gregory Culpin

“Phil, it’s not as simple as you think. Organizations are living, breathing organisms. They are like people – with their own histories, dreams, desires, jealousies, traditions and habits. And they are made up of people, no two of whom are alike, while at the same time they share certain beliefs, values and behaviours. That all wraps up into what we call our “corporate culture,” and it’s worth more to us than a thousand desktop computers or a million mission statements. It’s what makes us a cohesive whole, a team-based organization that is not tripping over itself every second of every day.”

Read the full article at www.pmctraining.com

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Tuesday, December 16th, 2008

Are you really doing Enterprise 2.0?

  Thomas Vander Wal

This post by John Tropea gives us a good look at Enterprise 2.0 through the lens of knowledge management using these newer tools.

Read the full article at libraryclips.blogsome.com

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