David, I recommend first determining the human information processing preferences of each individual in your department. This can be accomplished through a short individual survey. When analyzed

David, As Dave Snowden points out, you will not experience a dearth of responses to your question. I suspect that given the membership here, you will also receive many quality responses. So rather

Hello again all, CNBC is running a 5 part, weekly series on Collaboration - strategies as well as technologies. The first episode was on October 12th. The series episodes will be archived online at

You're going to regret asking that question in a forum with so many consultants! We use an approach originally developed under DARPA funding to gather hundreds of stories from employees and then

David, My company takes a slightly different approach than the oneoutlined by Valdis Krebs although we have used SNA techniques. We look atthe question of openness to knowledge sharing as one

Dave, Employees are often surveyed about their opinions re: culture/work/ learning, but it is often better to see the actual behavior/ relationships that make it happen. Sounds like an

Do you know of anyone who could conduct an assessment ofdepartment to summarize how well its culture supports knowledge sharing? As many of us would agree, a culture that already rewardsknowledge

Dear Linda, I’d be glad to provide all, Andree permitting. Here’s my more general request. Maybe you can help aswell. TheKM Institute focuses on KM training and certification. Ihave

Hi Doug, If Andree is agreeable, could you post your findings to the SIKM group? thanks in advance Best Regards, Linda Hummel GE Energy 937.602.3525

Douglas - Yes - Quebec Hydro has considerable experience with using KM. The contact is Andree Dupere: dupere.andree@... Feel free to use my name as intro. Al Simard National

Does anyone know of any KM implementations, successful orotherwise, in traditional utility industry (not nuclear)? Douglas Weidner, eCKM Mentor™ Chairman, International Knowledge Management

This is a question of statistical deduction (going from the general to thespecific). Samples from large populations may or may not beapplicable to small segments of a population. Generally,

Gian - I'd put your first question in the same category as a bureaucracy thatassigns a champion because it's one of the things to do on a check list. In that case, my experience has been minimal

Adding to Allan's comments, at Fluor, we follow a formal process for launching a community which includes identification of the community leader and other key positions. We call our communities

John, I was working with a client using the CC book and the client was concerned about the acronyms so they made up a book mark that translated acronyms like CP = command post. I have been putting a

I"m abit skeptical of the 2-way matrix, but technologies like tagging add a nicelayer between "lurkers" and "opportunists". John * * John D. Smith ~ Voice:503.963.8229 ~ Skype: smithjd ~

Gian, You might keep an eye out for the proceedings fromthe "The Role of IS in Leveraging the Intelligenceand Creativity of SME's" conference (http://creativesme.dsi.uminho.pt)., which will be held

Gian, I do think that this has applicationwithin a corporate setting. As we have implemented CoP’s as wellas supporting technologies such as wiki’s and blogs in variousorganizations we

Nancy, Actually, it would be helpful to know a bit about how different peoplehave used it. The other day I was talking with a client who had alreadysent copies of it to a bunch of new community

John Thanks so much for the kind words about our book. It was a great pleasure to write and I'm continually encouraged by all the corporations that are finding it usefu. Nany Nancy M, Dixon Common