Leveraging Organizational Knowledge

OCTOBER 27, 2006

Leveraging your organisational knowledge relates to Knowledge Management, organisational learning, human capital development, social media/networks strategy, multi-channels Customer Relationships Management (CRM) 27 October 2006 ROI or no ROI for KM? I recently submitted a question to a KM mailing group about ROI.

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Leveraging Organizational Knowledge

MAY 22, 2007

For example, the goal of transforming France into a “Green” country requires departments such as “Environment” and “Energy” to be joined together (the “Energy” would have usually been managed by the Economy and Finance” dept). I wonder if someone will think of calling on the services of Knowledge Management consultants.

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Leveraging Organizational Knowledge

DECEMBER 8, 2006

First, a social network diagram: [link] Then a list of examples of SNAs (social networking applications) sorted by function: [link] I will use more of these tools myself and will promote their use around me and see what happens. It also means engaging in more value-adding social networks. Currently interim IT Director for Matches Fashion.

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Leveraging Organizational Knowledge

JUNE 22, 2006

Another example of a management tool usually not adapted to the Knowledge Economy is MBO or Management By Objectives. 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.

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Leveraging Organizational Knowledge

MAY 18, 2006

In many organizations, this is the executive management, but in flat hierarchies, the leaders may be other people. For example, adoption of Agile software methods requires cultural change, and can only be performed in small teams. Their sub-culture is initially shielded in some way from the existing culture so that it can flourish.

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Leveraging Organizational Knowledge

MAY 27, 2007

When the stories often speaks of ‘them’ versus or against ‘us’ for example, highlighting the differences between groups/departments/teams within the organization; this would tend to indicate a culture of information silos with poor communication/collaboration between them. Currently interim IT Director for Matches Fashion.

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Leveraging Organizational Knowledge

MARCH 9, 2006

For example, several US clothing firms now analyse demographic and sales data in such depth that they can tweak supply chains so that the right clothes always go to the right stores. audit and review your current projects, processes, systems and resources to identify and execute effectiveness and efficiency gains.

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