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Knowledge Management

Knowledge Management. Knowledge management to recession-proof your ICT Dr Alison Corfield MBA Knowledge Management Specialist – 10 years research into small and medium sized organisations Head of IT for 12 years International Management experience Contact: sacorfield@hotmail.com.

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Knowledge Management

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  1. Knowledge Management Knowledge management to recession-proof your ICT Dr Alison Corfield MBA • Knowledge Management Specialist – 10 years research into small and medium sized organisations • Head of IT for 12 years • International Management experience Contact: sacorfield@hotmail.com

  2. Knowledge Management ‘Knowledge is Power’ Francis Bacon (1597) De Haeresibus, in MeditationesSacraeI

  3. Knowledge Management ‘Storytelling can translate those dry and abstract numbers into compelling pictures of a leader’s goals. I saw this happen at the World Bank – by 2000, we were increasingly recognised as leaders in the area of knowledge management’ (Denning, World Bank Knowledge Manager, 2004).

  4. Knowledge Management Definition 1: ‘knowledge is information in context, together with an understanding of how to use it’ (Brooking, 1999) Definition 2: the management perspective, and associated practical activity, intended to make the best use of the knowledge resources available to an organization to meet its own productive opportunities. author’s definition

  5. Knowledge Management Ideas so far: Knowledge is Power Story telling

  6. Knowledge Management Video Clip of Chris Collison talking about knowledge management on Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRVx9qhzbgw His book: Collison, C., and Parcell, G. (2004) Learning to Fly: Practical Lessons from One of the World’s Leading Knowledge Companies, Oxford: Capstone. (First published, 2001).

  7. Knowledge Management Story 1: wheel reinvention and the use of knowledge champions

  8. Knowledge Management Story 1: explicit /tacit ‘Take it out of people’s heads and into a variety of ways to capture it. You will then not lose it when people leave and you can share it between teams and departments’ Quote from IT project manager

  9. Knowledge Management Ideas so far: • Knowledge is Power • Story telling • Knowledge as an Organisational Resource • Champions • Culture • Yellow pages

  10. Knowledge Management Story 2: Duplication, duplication, duplication: Quote from an IBM CEO ‘If only IBM knew what IBM knows’

  11. Knowledge Management Story 2: Communities of Practice Book suggestion: Wenger, E., McDermott, R. A. and Snyder, W. M. (2002) A Guide to Managing Knowledge: Cultivating Communities of Practice, Cambridge MA: Harvard Business School Press.

  12. Knowledge Management Ideas so far: • Knowledge is Power • Story telling • Knowledge as an Organisational Resource • Champions • Culture • Yellow pages • Cross Organisational Sharing • Community of Practice • Audits and mapping • Cost savings!

  13. Knowledge Management Video Clip from Youtube Video of improvised song on social media: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=soAk3F0wX9s

  14. Knowledge Management Story 3: Knowledge Management Programmes ‘It was one of the best collaborations because it was not seen as a business project, nor was it seen as an IT project but seen as an organisational priority’ IT staff member

  15. Knowledge Management Story 3: Strategic Overview. Innovation - Book Reference Nonaka, I. and Takeuchi, H. (1995) The Knowledge Creating Company: How Japanese Companies Create the Dynamics of Innovation, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

  16. Knowledge Management Story 3: Strategic Overview Learning Organisation - Book Reference Senge, P. M. (1990) The Fifth Discipline: the Art and Practice of the Learning Organisation, New York: Currency Doubleday.

  17. Knowledge Management ‘The empires of the future are the empires of the mind’ Winston Churchill(1874 - 1965)

  18. Knowledge Management Summary:

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