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Re: Looking for a global benchmark on knowledge transfer #knowledge-retention #knowledge-transfer

Thanks Murray, I will read this carefully. Part of the solution to the timing issue is (ideally) to do this harvesting on an ongoing basis. Waiting for a separation event, as you point out,

By Tim Powell · #10735 ·

Re: Looking for a global benchmark on knowledge transfer #knowledge-retention #knowledge-transfer

There are three things that worry me about relying too much on retiree networks: The treacherous nature of human memory The fact that the retirees, once they retire, immediately become non-current

By Nick Milton · #10734 ·

Re: New year new KM role? #jobs

Great and rare opportunity for someone. About 3 years ago I took a similar job to be global KM community lead for a Big N firm. Unfortunately the job wasn't as advertised and they were just interested

By Robert M. Taylor · #10733 ·

Re: Data Mining #data-science #question #content-management

I think this is the right answer and is the approach I've implemented successfully in the past. Far more to do with process and content than any data analysis tool. I think that would be a far slower

By Robert M. Taylor · #10731 ·

Re: Looking for a global benchmark on knowledge transfer #knowledge-retention #knowledge-transfer

This was the famous case of Bob Buckman's Buckman Labs, wasn't it, from the early days of KM? The story that retirees were retained in the network?

By Robert M. Taylor · #10730 ·

Re: The AI view of KM #AI #art-of-KM

I read linguistics and AI and spent a very brief time working on computer understanding of language, my God, more than 35 years ago before I realised it wasn't for me. I mean, I know it's funny

By Robert M. Taylor · #10729 ·

Re: Defining knowledge in your organisation: is it simple or hard? #definition

Yes, I have long held the view that it matters more to define what you mean in your context than to reach for the eternal verities. Rather than argue that knowledge is this or that, or includes this

By Robert M. Taylor · #10728 ·

Re: The AI view of KM #AI #art-of-KM

Great conversations are going on about ChatGPT. As a former journalist, I ran a chat session with it two weeks ago, and here are the responses to my 15 questions. It took a minute to answer one

By Rezwan Alam · #10727 ·

Re: The AI view of KM #AI #art-of-KM

It is a nice to tool to quickly find the right direction to look for your information. I have noticed in engineering, it most of the time came with a notification to check the expert for

By Dennis Jonker · #10726 ·

Re: The AI view of KM #AI #art-of-KM

I’ve been vaguely uncomfortable while reading this compelling and insightful thread – and thanks Louis-Pierre for reminding me why! Few would dispute that ChatGPT produces some amazing and

By Tim Powell · #10725 ·

Re: The AI view of KM #AI #art-of-KM

If you ask it to provide references, it often will.

By Dennis Pearce · #10724 ·

Re: The AI view of KM #AI #art-of-KM

My two cents on ChatGPT Beside the performance of the tool, its main drawback/flaw is its inability to tell what are the sources that enabled it to write answers to our questions. It is a black box,

By Louis-Pierre Guillaume · #10723 ·

Re: Defining knowledge in your organisation: is it simple or hard? #definition

Hi Patrick, 100% agree about the limitations and risks of "asset-based" knowledge conversations. As you rightly note, it is extremely rare for this framework to be meaningful at the

By Stephen Bounds · #10722 ·

Re: Defining knowledge in your organisation: is it simple or hard? #definition

Thank you for this careful unpacking Stephen. I would only add that between individual knowledge and organizational knowledge there is also socially constructed knowledge (the knowledge for example,

By Patrick Lambe · #10721 ·

Re: Defining knowledge in your organisation: is it simple or hard? #definition

Stephen, I like your discussion and your summarized points. It does help make the question clearer. I think it is relatively easy for organizations to identify needed individual knowledge, this is

By Murray Jennex · #10720 ·

Re: Defining knowledge in your organisation: is it simple or hard? #definition

The ongoing discussion and debate around definitions reminds me of Albert Rice's work on the "primary task" of an organization or a function within an organization: "the task it must perform if it is

By Matt Finch · #10719 ·

Re: Defining knowledge in your organisation: is it simple or hard? #definition

I believe “serendipity” as a management tool is a close friend of “magic” and their colleague “hope.”

By Bill Kaplan · #10718 ·

Re: Defining knowledge in your organisation: is it simple or hard? #definition

In www.knowledgemanagement.wiki knowledge is defined as a human or organizational asset enabling effective decisions and action in accordance with the ISO standard for Knowledge management systems

By Peter van Nederpelt · #10717 ·

Re: Defining knowledge in your organisation: is it simple or hard? #definition

Dear friends, Recalling Hamish Tacey's question, which motivated this rich discussion (please allow me to paraphrase it): how to define knowledge in a way that makes sense to the organization and

By Beto do Valle · #10716 ·

Re: Defining knowledge in your organisation: is it simple or hard? #definition

Hi all, Very interesting conversation. I want to emphasise the key aspect of Daan's quoted definition of "knowledge as an asset": If a company hires someone for the specific

By Stephen Bounds · #10715 ·

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