Hello all,

First, I want you to know that I'm a CEO of a startup called WhoKnows that sells to KM leadership like yourselves.  Given that disclaimer, I'd love to get your thoughts and advice on what we're doing.  Let me tell you a little bit about my company.

WhoKnows helps organizations understand "who knows what" inside your company to better facilitate knowledge sharing and collaboration.  Most employee profiles are empty or out-of-date, so it's difficult to find someone to help you when you need it.  Think of us a private LinkedIn powered by a machine learning platform.

WhoKnows automatically discovers dozens to hundreds of skills and professional interests about employees based on their work online, so they can review and decide what to publish to their corporate profile.  Then, we use these super-charged profiles to recommend in context the best colleague to help you whenever you search in any web app or search engine including Google, SharePoint, etc.  Essentially, we're trying to broker more organic introductions and collaboration between fellow employees based on their expertise.  

Wouldn't it be nice if employees cared as much about their internal profiles as much as their LinkedIn profiles?  We believe we can get employees excited about their employee profiles because we'll make them look good, do the grunt work for them, and protect their privacy at the same time.  At the same time, we'll provide the executives unprecedented insight into their company's expertise.  

I'd love to learn more about whether this would be compelling to KM leaders.  

• Are KM leaders looking to foster more cross-departmental collaboration and micro-mentoring?  
  
• Does not understanding the true breadth and depth of your companies employees' expertise keep you up at night?  
• Is this a must have or a nice to have?
• Or is this better suited for IT or HR leaders?

I'd love any thoughts you have on our offering as I'd love to learn more from this group.

Cheers,

Chris Macomber

CEO, WhoKnows

chris@...

http://www.whoknows.com

Communities Enablement Manager (Req ID 274BR)

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The  Communities Enablement Manager will be part of the core Knowledge Management team at BCG, and will be responsible for driving the activities needed to make our communities vibrant and successful. This will involve developing a deep understanding of how our professionals engage virtually, the needs of our end users and their client service challenges, as well as a clear understanding and vision toward addressing the unique challenges of deploying social collaboration in a professional services environment.

We seek a candidate to assist with setting strategies for our social collaboration initiatives, executing critical projects necessary to support the strategy, as well as defining, establishing and managing key communication, training, operational and support processes required to establish an effective communities organization. 

This role will involve a high level of interaction with Practice Areas, Consulting Teams, Information Technology,  Learning & Development and other key functions to ensure identification of key requirements, capabilities and priorities, as well as to assess and address key change management challenges.

The Seeker desires suggestions and best practices for knowledge management in a corporate setting.  As employees age and retire, valuable knowledge is often lost.  In addition, with the realities of today’s workplace, employee turnover needs to be expected.  How can a company proactively capture institutional memory and knowledge, and make sure that it is not lost?

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Over the nine years that the SIKM Leaders Community has existed, we have been fortunate to have had the services of several members to record most of the calls: Andrew Gent, Martin Cleaver, and Curtis Conley.

I now need to ask if any of you are willing to record the calls, either all of them, or on a shared basis with one or more other members.  If so, please reply to me at stangarfield@... to let me know. If you have questions or need instruction on how to record the calls, Andrew, Martin, or Curtis will be able to help.

Thanks very much.

Regards,

Stan

Could use some help.  I am putting together a workshop on the linkages between KM and strategy. It is an interactive session and I was hoping to do an exercise using a case study to discuss how a company was successfully able to translate tacit knowledge to explicit knowledge.  I wanted to ask if anyone has come across a good case study.  It does not have to be an American company.  Thanks.

• September 16, 2014: Knowledge Management: A Benchmark Study of Contemporary Practices - Marcie Zaharee and Marilyn Kupetz of MITRE
• SlideShare
• Twitter chat

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Short-term contract position available.  If interested, reply directly to Stephanie Geerlings at the email address below.

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Director-Knowledge Management in Skokie, Illinois, United States