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The Great Generational Shift: How Employers and Managers Can Prepare

Everwise

The Boomers are filling up an “age bubble” in the workforce such that there are many more people at or near the ordinary age range for retirement. Flexible work conditions, learning/knowledge management, pay-for-performance, and coaching-style leadership will be the keys to being an “employer of choice” for in-demand talent.

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

Conversation Matters

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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3 Big Knowledge Gaps in STEM Workforces

ATD Human Capital

In a recent APQC survey of more than 750 technical and engineering, knowledge management, learning, and talent management professionals, more than half ranked STEM competency and expertise development as an urgent or significant priority for their leadership. Addressing New and Emerging Knowledge. Developing Experts.

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7 Ways the U.S. OPM Competency Models Can Support Your Workforce Planning

AvilarHR

By incorporating competencies such as “Learning and Knowledge Management” and “Flexibility and Resilience,” you can encourage employees to embrace new challenges, acquire new skills, and adapt to changing business environments. In today’s business world, agility is key.

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Workers are looking – and leaving – for career development

HR Morning

Surveys show that workers and employers don’t agree on how well organizations are meeting employees’ development expectations. Institutional knowledge/Knowledge management. Whenever employees leave, organizations lose hard-to-replace knowledge about what has been successful and unsuccessful in moving strategy forward.

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Transferring Expertise: The Best Way to Move Tacit Knowledge

Conversation Matters

I’ve seen organizations conduct lengthy exit interviews with retiring experts, as well as, engaging in more scientific attempts to identify and then get down on paper, (or a mind map) that 10% of an expert’s experience which made that expert extraordinary. Let’s turn to a real life example.

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Leveraging Collective Knowledge: NASA’s Constellation Program

Conversation Matters

They experienced the sad recognition that much of the knowledge about how to build the Saturn V rocket that took the astronauts to the moon, had retired along with the engineers who had been encouraged to take early retirement. David Delong wrote about NASA' loss in Lost Knowledge , Oxford Press 2004.