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Why Knowledge Management Didn’t Save General Motors: Addressing Complex Issues By Convening Conversation

Conversation Matters

At one point GM had 138 best practice teams and 33 centers of expertise working with identified subject matter experts. In 2008 KM was alive and well at GM. In the summer of 2009 GM filed for bankruptcy. The knowledge existed within GM to develop a more competitive strategy.

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Assessing Values in Online Technology Part 4

HR Examiner

Today, in part three of our series we’ll look at the types of assessment, trends and observations, tips for buyers, and tips for sellers. In part three we looked at the types of assessments, trends and observations, tips for buyers, and tips for sellers. Knowledge Management. Talent Management. Full Spectrum.

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Potentiation: Neurology and Knowledge Management

Conversation Matters

It jumps the gap by producing a neurotransmitter that the next neuron picks up (neurologists say the neurotransmitter excites the next neuron) and off the information goes down the next neuron (and the next) until it gets to some important destination where the message tells your little finger to wiggle or you arrive at a brilliant new insight.

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KM professorship at Kent State

Knowledge Musings

The Kent State University program on Information Architecture and Knowledge Management has announced a new professorship, sponsored by Goodyear: IAKM Accepting Applications for Goodyear Professor Position. The Master's Program in Information Architecture and Knowledge Management is a unique, innovative program inaugurated in Fall 2001.

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Transparent Office: In-the-Flow and Above-the-Flow

Transparent Office

These wikis are typically replacing knowledge management systems (or creating knowledge management systems for the first time). That was one of the great (if depressing) learnings of the Knowledge Management movement. Above-the-flow wikis are used lightly (when at all) by large groups ofpeople.

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McAfee on Widening the Flow

Transparent Office

In the old world of emails and knowledge management systems, our tools and processes force a rigid distinction between "doing your job" (i.e., in-the-flow activities, usually in email) and "giving back to the organization" (above-the-flow contributions to a knowledge management system).

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The Bamboo Project Blog: Do You Know How to Ask the Right Questions?

The Bamboo Project Blog

Looking at tools like Google Squared , Google Trends and Wolfram Alpha , it's becoming increasingly clear to me that one of the key challenges we have before us is learning how to ask questions. This year I've been cringing at the polemics who want to get rid of the book/textbook. And how are we going to address this?