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

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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. The knowledge management task is to bring together the collective knowledge of the organization to bear on complex issues.

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Collective Sensemaking: How One Organization uses the Oscillation Principle

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The day provides time for necessary coordination and joint decision-making but also for sharing client work, exchanging professional development ideas, and working on projects. I have interacted with K&S for over ten years, working with their clients and offering the K&S consultants my own growing insights about knowledge management.

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Using Teams to Solve Hard Problems: A Book Review of Collaborative Intelligence By Richard Hackman

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There are many insightful researchers and theorist who come from other disciplines, but have much to offer knowledge managers. There I saw first-hand the difficulties that teams of intelligence analysts face in sharing knowledge within their own agency, not to mention the enormous problems of sharing between agencies.