Thinking Knowledge

25/04/2018

We are planning to start a Centurion KM Meetup - an opportunity to meet with peers on a regular basis to discuss and share anything KM and KM-related. If you are in the region, you are welcome to join us tomorrow (Thursday, 26 April) for a pre-meetup meetup at Blue Crane in Brooklyn from 08:30 - 09:30. (Yes - we know this is not quite Centurion, but future meetups will be in Centurion.)
cc Ronel Davel

An opportunity to meet with peers on a regular basis to discuss and share anything KM and related.The current theme is 'Re-imagine'. We are in a phase where KM is facing some interesting future prospe

06/04/2018

Positive deviance in action!

27/03/2018

Interesting application of AR

What might Ikea’s confusing instructions look like in AR? One designer decided to find out.

09/03/2018

Knowledge Management Matters: new book featuring wisdom from a diverse group of respected KM practitioners. A free pdf version also available.

By Practitioners for Practitioners Knowledge Management Matters: Words of Wisdom from Leading Practitioners is a collection of works penned by an amazing and diverse group of thought leaders. Each of these trailblazers has generously shared…

07/02/2018

Do you agree with this perspective? Will it work in your context?
Is it necessary to have this clear distinction between KM & IM?
In practice, what is the relationship between IM & KM in your institution?

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The DoD will define Knowledge Management as a discipline focused on integrating people and processes enabled by tools, throughout the information lifecycle, in order to create shared understanding and increase organizational performance and decision-making.

In contrast, the DoD defines information management as the function of managing an organization’s information resources for the handling of data and information acquired by one or many different systems, individuals, and organizations in a way that optimizes access by all who have a share in that data or a right to that information.

Thus within the DoD Information Management is more on how to gather and access the data where Knowledge Management is taking that data and turning it into organizational shared understanding that can be utilized for decision making.
-- Cory Cannon

A United States, Department of Defense perspective on the distinction between Knowledge and Information, and what this means for KM within the DoD.

15/01/2018

A useful app for those travelling to malaria areas.

The University of Pretoria Institute for Sustainable Malaria Control has launched a mobile application (app) focusing on informing people, mainly tourists, about malaria.

12/01/2018

How do you feel about 'surveillance capitalism'?

Poem shared by Djoerd Hiemstra (https://twitter.com/djoerd).

11/01/2018

Professional and organisational development is too a large extent about intangible assets. Here are a useful way to look at intangible assets in this context.

Productive Assets. These include your capacity to continue to learn important skills; to build strong relationships with peers who can support your learning; and to build a reputation that others can use to verify your development.

Vitality Assets. These include your capacity and motivation to stay healthy; to create strong, positive, and resilient relationships with others; and to positively manage the stress of work and home life.

Transformational Assets. These include your capacity to understand yourself and be curious, and to create sufficiently diverse networks of friends and colleagues so that it is always possible to imagine other ways of living.

- Lynda Gratton, MIT Sloan Management Review, 5 Jan 2018

Practices such as Personal Knowledge Mastery (PKM) supports this.

The “intangible assets” people bring to their jobs are valuable — but challenging to quantify.

22/11/2017

The four questions you need to solve different types of problems.

27/06/2017

"Obsession with listening to the customer. Almost all customers want their products to be as inexpensive as possible. So firms try to respond to this by delivering the value that they think their customers want. But great CEOs understand that the responsibility of defining greatness is the firm’s, not the customer’s. As Steve Jobs was fond of asking, Am I really going to ask customers if they want an iPad?"

Beware strategic inertia.

20/06/2017

"Collaboration is not about gluing together existing egos. It's about the ideas that never existed until after everyone entered the room" Daily Dose

https://youtu.be/f52JRVbVfa8

Hungry for a new way of working? We got wildly curious about how to create the best team possible - with the people and resources you already have. It would ...