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

Conversation Matters

In 2008 KM was alive and well at GM. GM was brought down by a flawed strategy, but an organization’s strategy is clearly a product of the knowledge that exists within its walls. The knowledge existed within GM to develop a more competitive strategy. In the summer of 2009 GM filed for bankruptcy.

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Why HR Needs To Ground Talent Decisions In Solid Business Impact

HR Tech Girl

Prior to that, he spent eight years leading consulting and best-practice research on knowledge management, human capital management, and process improvement. There, I was able to help others while learning sales, account management, customer service, and presentation skills. Guille was my client for several years at APQC.

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Help Employees Do Their Best Every Day

HR Bartender

(Editor’s Note: Today’s post is an excerpt from the book, “ It’s All About Bob(bie) – Strategies for Winning With Your Employees ” of which I am one of the contributors. It’s the third book in a thought leadership trilogy aimed at developing and retaining a competitive and engaged workforce published by The Workforce Institute at Kronos.

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Improving Knowledge Worker Productivity

Conversation Matters

As Knowledge Management professionals our job is the help organizations leverage their knowledge. Our attention is focused on the knowledge worker and our major task is to devise ways for those knowledge workers to share the knowledge they have gained with their peers.

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Most Important Developments for 1/22

GetFive

Just the act of talking with people can reassure them that you care about how well the team is functioning. Over 50% of Google’s largest revenue-generating products have come out of “20% time,” including AdSense, Gmail, Google Maps, Google News, Google Earth, and Gmail Labs. How did we get here? Josh Bersin.

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Working Virtually: Re-designing Work for Human Flourishing

Conversation Matters

Also, virtual workers have less supervision because their managers lack the knowledge of customers and conditions that the remote workers acquire locally. Pfeffer, in his book, Dying for a Paycheck , describes the stress that office-based workers too often experience. increase in productivity among its teleworkers.

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How to Launch an Effective Employee Engagement Program

6Q

Leaders across organisations, strive to keep their employees engaged at the workplace to achieve higher levels of productivity. Various studies have established that employee engagement directly correlates with the productivity level of employees in an organisation. What do the statistics suggest? Begin at the on-boarding process.