Harold Jarche updates his comments on The Knowlege Sharing Paradox.
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"Problem Solving Knowledge Transfer: An Expert's Perspective" by DeAnna Myers is a Capstone research report from Northwestern's Master in Learning and Organizational Change (where I was on faculty for a few years).
There are a lot of interesting conversations happening recently about knowledge management and the value of knowledge sharing or knowledge collecting and what it all means. KM is about taking action.
Inspired by a comment from Robert Lavigne, "Sharing of new found knowledge is the responsibility of all knowledge workers." While many people see KM as all about the "management" and "collection" of knowledge, I have always seen it as about informing as many people as possible about what is going on / what is going through the organizational mind.
Victoria Ward has an interesting piece on translating poetry that I think has a lot to do with the difficulties of knowledge management.
David Gurteen has published an interesting letter from Bob Buckman of Buckman Labs in response to discussions of knowledge sharing by James Robertson. Robertson doesn't like the term "knowledge sharing." Buckman doesn't like "knowledge management."
Anjo Anjewierden is getting Settled into his new position. They have an interesting arrangement for the coffee machine that enhances knowledge sharing.
A press release: The World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) is ready to play a leading role in two new bodies set up by the United Nations – the UN Knowledge Sharing Task Force and the UN Group on the Information Society (UNGIS).
Maron Demissie, one of the students in the MS LOC program at Northwestern, has just completed her Master's Capstone entitled, "The Quest for Increased Knowledge Sharing Within Design Firms."
Patrick Lambe has What is knowledge sharing (and this from February) and Why do we share knowledge, based on a recent discussion. And this leads to Euan Semple and Sharon Richardson's discussion of one element of knowledge sharing: humor and personality.
A commonly-discussed problem in knowledge management implementations is the issue of knowledge hoarding, generally associated with the idea of "knowledge is power." Kaye Vivian sees this as a myth.
"Sharing Knowledge by Design - Building Intellectual Capital in a Virtual World" by Nancy Settle-Murphy and Stan Garfield. The authors provide a set of ten ideas on how to build knowledge-sharing into the fabric of teams and into the organization as a whole. The focus is on growing the capacity for knowledge sharing in the organization, rather than on any specific KM technologies.
Following my note about Joining Dots' article on "Why is KM so difficult," I tracked down an article of the same title by Julian Birkinshaw from the London Business School. He says, "The problem with knowledge management is that most companies struggle to make it work." And then he gives some suggestions on how to make it work.
A piece from the ASU WP Carey School of Business states that to "'Know Thyself' is the First Step to Successful Knowledge Management." I particularly like their effort at defining characteristics of organizations which are more likely to succeed in knowledge management.
David Buchan suggests that a group needs to come to an agreement to always respond when asked. People in the group need to have some understanding of everyone's expertise as well.
Dave Pollard has another in depth tome in yesterday's "The Psychology of Information, or Why We Don't Share Stuff." I like that he acknowledges the importance of the underlying human behaviors in this dilemma.
I found Carol Kinsey "Goman's Five reasons people don't tell what they know" from June 2002. The short version is: power, insecurity, trust, fear, and "no one else does it."
The March/April 2002 issue of Ivey Business Journal had a piece by Nancy Dixon, "The Neglected Receiver of Knowledge Sharing." Dixon presents a helpful perspective to the concept of knowledge sharing, and one that I've heard in pieces previously. The discussion also makes it clearer why best practice databases have such a hard time of it in the KM community.