Tangential, perhaps, to KM in some ways, but this, from Harvard Business School's Business History Initiative, reminds me of the conversation about Shell's ROCK (Retention of Critical Knowledge) programme at the start of the month.
I could imagine KM professionals with a few hours to spare benefiting from this online event, and exploring the parallels to oral history in some aspects of knowledge retention and transfer.
Matt
Upcoming Conference: Using Oral History in Business and Management Studies
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February 6, 2023 (8:30AM-12:00PM EST) on Zoom
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The Creating Emerging Markets (CEM) project based at Harvard Business School's Business History Initiative has been conducting lengthy interviews with top business leaders
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Thanks Chris for the video, that was really useful and insightful and provided more detail to ROCK and its different uses.
Bart Verheijen
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Hi Bart,
Building on Nick and Rupert’s points re ROCK, here is a 20 min video interview with Carla Newman, a one-time
ROCK interviewer at Shell. Worth a watch – courtesy of a roundtable event organised Patrick Lambe‘s Straits Knowledge.
Cheers,
Chris
Bart, as I understand it, the outputs of the ROCK process are used to update the Shell "body of knowledge" (Shell wiki, processes, training etc)
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Martin and Rupert,
I believe the ROCK program was done for retiring experts. In their last 3-4 years, they get more time for knowledge sharing (and thus less project work).
They were then interviewed by a few young (potential) employees from different departments (R&D; marketing; etc).
The written reports of these interviews are stored, but mostly the 'stories' lived on in the young employees.
Bart Verheijen
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Hi Martin,
The Oil Major, Royal Dutch Shell has the ‘Retention of Critical Knowledge’ (ROCK) programme, whereby staff are interviewed every 5 or so years after a certain tenure.
Also, Dorothy Leonard has done a lot of work in this area; look her up and say hi from me if you make contact.
cheers,
Rupert
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