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Leveraging Organizational Knowledge: Organizational cultures not conducive to effective leveraging of knowledge (cont.2)

Leveraging Organizational Knowledge

Modesty resulting from lack of encouragement : the "who am I to teach others, of course they know" syndrome. audit and review your current projects, processes, systems and resources to identify and execute effectiveness and efficiency gains. Currently interim IT Director for Matches Fashion.

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Leveraging Organizational Knowledge: ROI or no ROI for KM?

Leveraging Organizational Knowledge

At the time I asked my question, I was of course targeting the second group. Of course ROI can include non-financial returns and impacts but people do not have that understanding so I generallly avoid using the term. People need to know how to tell both kinds of stories and know when to tell them.

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Leveraging Organizational Knowledge: Traditional strategies to improve efficiency are failing in the Knowledge Economy.

Leveraging Organizational Knowledge

When managers’ performance is evaluated solely on annual objectives, they will naturally tend to focus their attention and efforts on these objectives and not be concerned with anyone else’s. Of course, there are ways to alleviate this problem such as including a knowledge-related objective for each manager.

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Leveraging Organizational Knowledge: Organizational cultures not conducive to effective leveraging of knowledge.

Leveraging Organizational Knowledge

The timidity issue: the "who am I to teach others, of course they know" syndrome Jean @ ILOG At 4:35 PM , Peter-Anthony Glick said. audit and review your current projects, processes, systems and resources to identify and execute effectiveness and efficiency gains. Merci Jean, two good additional syndromes indeed.

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Leveraging Organizational Knowledge: I am Time Magazines “Person of the Year” (*) !

Leveraging Organizational Knowledge

Of course, internally you need a higher degree of control than on the Web for security and confidentiality, with user access rights to sensitive information. audit and review your current projects, processes, systems and resources to identify and execute effectiveness and efficiency gains.

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Leveraging Organizational Knowledge: Knowledge-driven, not simply customer-driven.

Leveraging Organizational Knowledge

of course its website; its successes and - yes why not – its failures; and lastly but certainly not least, its people). My last input is the realisation that SOA is perfect to facilitate this collaboration btw the front-line and the customers (see my last posts). At 9:58 AM , Peter-Anthony Glick said.

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Leveraging Organizational Knowledge: Personal Knowledge Management

Leveraging Organizational Knowledge

Of course, one-on-one sessions with everyone in an organization can be prohibitively expensive and time-consuming. audit and review your current projects, processes, systems and resources to identify and execute effectiveness and efficiency gains. Currently interim IT Director for Matches Fashion.

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