Corporations that understand the value of knowledge sharing, teamwork, informal learning and joint problem solving are investing heavily in collaboration technology and are reaping the early rewards. ~ Our relationship with knowledge is changing as our work becomes more intangible and complex. Make traditional management obsolete.

This takes the best from ISD, HPT and social learning and also incorporates knowledge management, organizational development, network and management theory to look at how we can develop the next practices that will inform networked organizations. The move to the training field coincided with the creation of  the Web.

Harold Jarche talks about our personal knowledge management task, and in that, there are the tools I use to capture and share my own thinking (like this), and tools I use to go out and find or follow information. My ITA colleague Jane Hart regularly collects the top 100 learning tools via contributions from lots of folks. 

The series consisted of workshops on: Personal Knowledge Management. Enterprise Community Management. 'For the past 18 months, Jane Hart has been hosting the Social Learning Centre , offering a wide variety of resources, coaching, and workshops. have run several workshops as well, some alone, and others jointly with Jane.

Extrinsic rewards only work for simple physical tasks and increased monetary rewards can actually be detrimental to performance, especially with knowledge work. Consider the case of medical researchers sharing their professional knowledge and findings amongst peers. Insights from one person can save another a lot of wasted time.

For those of you who have attended one of my knowledge cafe workshops - you will recognise the message - I say it in different words but the meaning is the same. It feels more professional to try to solve a knowledge management problem that is called lack of information than a problem that is called confusion. We have to talk!

In the Personal Knowledge Management  framework of my colleague Harold Jarche, it’s be a new component of improving personal productivity. However, it turns out that apps are more than just on phones. This is of benefit to both parties and the users of the environment, with appropriate caveats about how the information is used.

I am writing this on the plane to Hong Kong where I am doing a couple of workshops and then off to Washington for a meeting of The World Bank's Knowledge Management Commission which isn't really on the way home!! I reckon I can write that title as it does feel as if I have "done" all of it - or at least a lot of it. must be mad

Some things I learned about knowledge this past year. About  knowledge management : Codified knowledge (documents, lists, reports, best practices) is effective in organizations that have mostly new staff or high turnover, like a pizza franchise. How does personal knowledge management relate to social learning?

That’s because rapid eLearning has nothing to do with the learner and everything to do with the Instructional Designer and how they want you to see their knowledge. Home About Podcasts Videos Xyleme Inc. It is the reverse. It is as though I’m looking in a mirror.” Don’t assess how mobile fits in your blended learning strategy. to 14.06.

Blogs, wikis, podcasts, peer-to-peer sharing, aggregators, social media and personal knowledge management are all emergent phenomena, unlike the top-down tools and content that traditional e-learning has provided. The 20% he sees as driven by managers and supervisors, who push, provide feedback and coach others. 2004).

As project manager Corey Travis writes: For the content, we decided to heavily outline the chapters, then narrow the crowd by picking three potential writers for each chapter. It’s main focus is on marketing, sales and online reputation management, coupled with explanations of tools and platforms. Books

Managers and supervisors need to give up some control and organizations must learn to trust their people, says Jay. The management of assets is mostly obsolete by the time it is stored.&#. never thought anyone would seriously adopt it, but on viewing Jay Cross’s slides yesterday, it seems many have. All learning is a bit of both.

Personal Knowledge Management. Knowledge = the capacity for effective action (know how). Management = how to get things done. Knowledge. Sources of Info & Knowledge. Informal, social learning is the primary way that knowledge is created in the workplace. What is PKM? Aggregate. Filter. Connect.

In the world of learning, knowledge management, organizational development, we see solutions that are “scalable&# and “sustainable.&# We can’t capture that in a knowledge base, or “cook&# it into a course design. It is lived, in the moment. It becomes the thing we reflect upon as we seek to apply it.

Personal Knowledge Management. “One of the most useful aspects of both this and the previous course was learning how to organise and manage an online course. In May and June, Harold Jarche and I will be running another series of our popular public online workshops at the Social Learning Centre. 14-25 May. Led by Jane Hart.

Link : Original Cynefin model paper in the context of Knowledge Management. I gave a keynote address at LSSC11 this morning looking at the application of complexity theory to software design. So I did that, looking to advocate a natural science approach then running through a series of concepts from complexity to resilience. Articles.

Interesting things I learned on twitter this past week: American Bar Association article on Personal Knowledge Management. Lawyers are knowledge workers who must cope with an ever-increasing volume of information flowing within and outside of their workplaces. by @KMHobbi. Solution: Try PKM. via @charlesjennings. via @BFChirpy.

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Call it knowledge work, call it concept work, the point is that execution will only  be the cost of entry, innovation will be the necessary differentiator.  And that , my friends, is why the ITA is on a crusade about wirearchy , personal knowledge management , social media , informal learning , and new L&D skills. 

How are organizations handling the cross-over between management, knowledge management, learning? What can I borrow from KM, collaborative learning, and management practices? We already have too much to do. We lack the right questions. In my mind, it is THE most important skill or ability to have. When do I use it?

Google Buzz , Google Wave and PKM PKM stands for Personal Knowledge Management, which is a definite passion of mine (see Work Literacy and Social Media for Knowledge Workers ). I had an interesting conversation the other day about whether there’s that much new going on in eLearning here in 2010. What are these?

From Learning Management to Personal Knowledge Management. Acquiring new knowledge and skills – e.g. in webinars, online workshops, MOOCs , and through videos and screencasts, etc. Knowledge Transfer STEPHEN DOWNES: HALF AN HOUR | FRIDAY, JULY 1, 2011. Should knowledge be a commodity? Page 1 of 2. Sector.

This is a book for business managers who want to build workforces that improve performance naturally, without prodding. In our mind’s eye, we are telling these stories to hands-on managers, people with titles such as sales manager, operations supervisor, project leader, and product manager. Who should read this book?

Later in the year there is a fourth KM conference in the region The 8th International Conference On Knowledge Management. By David Gurteen I have been privileged to participate in two KM conferences in the Middle East over the past six months and have met some lovely people. KM Egypt and KM Iran. in Jordan.

The post is titled Ten ways how leadership can influence and promote interpersonal trust in knowledge management behaviour and processes. mainly had a problem with where it says that "managers need to measure and reward trust". And it was item 7. Value and respect trust - yes - but that's it. What do you think

Instead, a whole host of business leaders and writers, including Umair Haque, John Hagel, John Seely Brown, Lang Davison, Rod Collins and Ranjay Gulati, are exploring a fundamental rethinking of the basic tenets of management. Among the most important changes being proposed are five basic shifts in management practice: 1.    

As a knowledge support for myself, workshop participants and readers, I have put together my main posts on personal knowledge management as a sub-page of my Key Posts page. Tweet. Since I’ve written dozens of posts on the subject and modified my approach over the years, I thought this might be helpful as a start page.

Personal Knowledge Management. Related posts: Role of an online community manager. As promised, here are the follow-up notes & links from yesterday’s social media workshops in Miramichi. All of my posts tagged PKM. PKM social bookmarks. Slide/Audio overview of PKM. Books for small business: Trust Agents.

Over a decade ago I read Knowledge Assets which, to my mind was the first intelligent book on knowledge management I had encountered. He had an incredible ability to synthesis different fields of knowledge in a coherent way, but without intellectual compromise. We came from very different backgrounds. Reflections

Home About Complexity Reading List Knowledge Management Reading List All Social is Learning John 8 comments Decision Science , Social Media Nov 22 I’ve been reflecting lately on my brief sojourn into education reform prior to returning to “the world.”  Learning Management Suite RFP Template | Catadoc.com - [.] All around us. 

I’ll be presenting on Personal Knowledge Management. Also, Patti Anklam just concluded a three-part series on knowledge management, with The 3rd KM: Personal Knowledge Management. Another free, LearnTrends professional development event is gathering steam for November.

For example, here are my feeds for Innovation, Collaboration & Network: This is one more, rather powerful, tool for my personal knowledge management processes that makes my life a bit easier. Tweet My blog functions as my outboard brain, a place to get half-baked ideas out in the open and work on them in public.

Tim says that innovation is the process of idea management , which makes sense to me. Tim Kastelle introduced me to the concept of Aggregate-Filter-Connect for innovation, which I used for personal knowledge management (network learning) and later changed it to Seek-Sense-Share. Tweet Innovation. This requires a network mindset.

If the diversity is valued, then the pedagogy must do away from its ‘one size fits all’ approach, and accept that the twenty first century of globalisation demands a different understanding of knowledge use and that this has implications for the use of technology. Personal Knowledge Management (PKM) skills. This is absurd.”.

personal knowledge management ) and be given the opportunities and support to do so. Tweet The government  is asking how New Brunswick can be the learning province of Canada. Similar questions have been asked before, so I’m just going to amalgamate some of my responses. Learning at School. The problem is the structure itself.

ast year I led workshops in London, Madrid , San Jose, Quebec, and Berlin on how to sell social networking and informal learning to senior management. Here we go: Learning is a dirty word because executive managers have a hard time hearing it. You think of improving skills and increasing knowledge. CLO online edition. The “2.0”

For example, after 6 months on the job, with access to micro-sharing, company blogs and the development of a personal knowledge management framework, you could ask similar questions. Do you have to regularly access information and knowledge to do your job? The former is to ensure that you’re meeting operational needs.

Until the shift from industrial to network dominance, corporations could compensate for crummy learning by hiring experienced people and managing ingenious command-and-control structures. In a networked corporation, there is scant difference between knowledge work and learning. Effectiveness – Jay Cross. Informal Learning 2.0.

dozen years ago I needed to get up to speed on business process automation, knowledge management, and workflow systems. attended KM World in San Jose gratis and came away with great foundation knowledge. Management Innovation Meta-LearningI’m attending KM World virtually for the next two days. David Weinberger.

Curation in many ways seems just an external manifestation of Harold Jarche’s Personal Knowledge Management (an extension of the share part of seek-sense-share). Mobile is a platform for all of the above, and you. And there are lots of elements that can, and should, play a role. But their problem was really much simpler.

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On 25 October at 18:00 GMT I will be conducting an online session on personal knowledge management (PKM). If the only knowledge-building activities you do are ones mandated by your employer, then you may be in trouble. The hosts are @joitske and @sibrenne and there will be a Twitter back-channel. Cost is €45 for this 1.5

Gurteen Knowledge-Log , January 2, 2009. What’s Next After Knowledge Management? The Community Manager , March 9, 2009. The top posts from sources selected for Informal Learning Flow in the first six months of 2009: Work on Stuff that Matters: First Principles - OReilly Radar , January 11, 2009. Et tu, KK?

Luis Suarez has suggested the merging of knowledge management and learning. Euan says that HR are “maintainers of order, rather than enablers of staff&# ; that Communications manages rather than enables communication; while IT controls risk instead of enabling the business. should be incorporated into one support function.

The PKM Workshops have provided me with great feedback on how personal knowledge management is understood and used by others. Thanks I have been very pleasantly surprised at how well my request to fund the PKM Book Project has been taken up by the community at large. So far, 30 people have sponsored at the basic $10 level.

Axiom established a similar infrastructure to that a large law firm would have, with complete libraries, support staff, and knowledge management systems to allow its lawyers to work closely together and tap each others’ expertise. Back since the 1990s I have tracked the rise of virtual and distributed professional services models.

knowledge management and collaboration (25%). The title doesn’t sound very 2.0-esque, now does it? It’s dripping with irony. How can one ‘mandate’ something in a world whereby we’re striving to be flatter, more connected, less hierarchical and ostensibly more socially aware of our brethren? If I were a CEO, I’d mandate Enterprise 2.0

which needs to coexist within the list of formal classroom and eLearning offerings which needs to coexist with your documents, knowledge management, videos, podcasts, which needs to coexist with the profiles, skills, and recent activity-feed happenings of all employees. Home About Podcasts Videos Xyleme Inc. in light of social media.

This is something that gets discussed as emergent: see Emergent Knowledge Management , Direction of eLearning - Emergence or Big System , and Future Platforms for eLearning. Selling the Value Often it can be tricky to convince management of the value of providing these tools. Management Take it Seriously – Definitely an issue.

So here’s a new job description to insert into all those talent management systems: work redesigner. I’ve been thinking about jobs a bit more recently as I’ve taken a term position at a university and my job is knowledge transfer or more specifically, the commercialization of research. have learned something of course.

Knowledge Management. Talent Management. George Siemens, Jay Cross and Tony Karrer have announced their third annual free online conference: LearnTrends 2009 The Corporate Learning Trends and Innovations Conference November 17-19, 2009 | Online | Free The theme/focus this year is on Convergence in Workplace Learning.

The key quote here is this: If we think about apprentice models of knowledge transfer, we see the importance of acquiring experience over time for both knowledge transfer and development of the field as a whole. Of course we also need reflective capability, but management education in the main fails in both respects.

My consulting work this past year has shown a great need for two aspects of knowledge-sharing in organizations: 1) systems & processes to enable better collaboration & sharing, and 2) individual skills in narrating work and learning in networks. The whole is greater than the sum of the parts as we build on the knowledge of others.

now take for granted my online personal knowledge management processes, such as social bookmarking; blogging and tweeting, but these habits make online collaboration much, much easier. With volcanic ash grounding most flights in northern Europe, I’ve been thinking about web conferencing and distributed work.

It shows that training & education (in the workplace) should concentrate on addressing a clear lack of knowledge and skills by using appropriate instructional interventions, well-established over the years. We cannot train individuals for that 90% but we can support access to knowledge and expertise across the enterprise.

KM Method Cards Patrick Lambe and the folks at Straitsknowledge created a deck of cards to introduce people to knowledge management and knowledge sharing methods. have a stack of different card decks that have been created for various purposes that I use. wanted to share some of them, and find out what you use and how. Boo hoo!

The reality is that we are looking a grave failure of national management. BOTTOM LINE: RADICALLY DIFFERENT MANAGEMENT The same debilitating incapacity to manage effectively that afflicts US corporations thus also cripples the US education system. Studies show that US education also puts the future in peril. Finn Jr.,

think I first came across the T-shape concept – combining breadth and depth – in the well-known 2001 Harvard Business Review article Introducing T-Shaped Managers: Knowledge Management’s Next Generation. In this case we can certainly never match the knowledge of a deep specialist in any one area.

Control Two dominant and enduring themes in the management literature are control and how to motivate and engage people in the workforce. The more minutely managers attempt to control, the more people withdraw and the less effective their attempts. Control is a legitimate management concern. Slaps forehead* Of course! Matson, E.

Enhanced serendipity can be an emergent property of personal knowledge management. PKM Tweet High tolerance for ambiguity is becoming an important leadership trait in increasingly complex, networked environments, explains Riita Raesmaa in  Systems Intelligence, Serendipity and Listening for the Better Decisions. 21C_Leader complexity

KMers.org runs a regular TweetChat on knowledge management (KM) issues and today’s was on Personal Knowledge Management (PKM) , with the following agenda: What effective means have we found to aggregate, filter and share information? — @petertwo Incentive for PKM is PCM (Personal Career Management).

In 2009, Anthony Poncier wrote a good post (in French) that covered the eight challenges of management in the virtual era; loosely translated as: Being concurrently nomadic and collaborative. The production of collective knowledge. Managing with both IQ and EQ (emotional quotient). Workers manage their own schedules.

Knowledge work and learning to work smarter are becoming indistinguishable. Old-style training enraged many managers because it was separate from work. It needn’t be this way, particularly since knowledge work and learning are nearly indistinguishable. Knowledge workers create value in workscapes. Managers    178.

Corporations that understand the value of knowledge sharing, teamwork, informal learning and joint problem solving are investing heavily in collaboration technology and are reaping the early rewards. Our relationship with knowledge is changing as our work becomes more intangible and complex. Make traditional management obsolete.

Answers from mLearn experts - Ignatia Webs , January 13, 2011 #LAK11 what about #privacy when using #data analytics to create #knowledge? Best of Mobile Learning January 1, 2011 to January 31, 2011 Featured Sources The following are the top items from featured sources based on social signals. Get involved! hotlist hot January

We seek after knowledge… and you call us criminals. Practices like personal knowledge management (PKM), and its potential for enhanced serendipity can give us the underlying structure to become better hackers and more creative. 'Was the dominance of morality usurped by responsibility at the beginning of the industrial era?

am hopeful that a few will take on a self-directed learning task around some of the things I talked about in Tool Set to develop their own knowledge and proficiency, but certainly they would not be spearheading any broader learning mix initiatives anytime soon. a lot harder than it really needed to be. That's a really great point. will apply.

The need to recognise the knowledge and capabilities of everyone in the workforce is even more urgent now. Invisible relationships and tacit knowledge therefore have to be made visible so that they can be co-created and shared. It does not need to go re-inventing knowledge unnecessarily. Needs To Do Better Enterprise 2.0

One of the ways to accelerate your own growth, part of your personal knowledge management path, is to mentor folks who represent the type of thinking you believe is interesting and important. When they also are leaving a trail of what they think is interesting (e.g. Similarly, here, with a difference. meta-learning social

It’s what I call life in perpetual Beta and one way to deal with it is by developing a personal knowledge management process. Consequently, leading through permanent whitewater requires an ability to sense, make sense, decide and act quickly. It requires a sharp mind, humility and an openness to new experiences.

is Personal Knowledge Management ( PKM ). If the #1 benefit is personal knowledge management, why are all the big players selling to the CEO, CIO, and IT departments? Where are the tools targeting individual knowledge workers? Innovation via @timkastelle. Innovation = learning x diverse connections. The No.

The first month-long workshop on Personal Knowledge Management begins 1 September which will be led by Harold. Since setting up the Social Learning Centre  (SLC) earlier this year (which now has over 1,600 members) I have organized a large number of webinars, workshops and other events.

Personal Knowledge Management. BIG KM (corporate) |  Little KM | Personal KM. Lots going on. Books, blogs, bookmarks, tags, etc. Harold asked himself, “What is it I actually do?&#. “Sorting&# means filtering one’s sources. “Categories&# are your personal folksonomy. “Retrieving&# is recall. Tools?

In other words those who think “social learning” is just about a new training trend, or about adding social media into the ”blend”, or that it is about acquiring the latest Social Learning Management System are missing the big picture. We will help people to build external Personal Knowledge Networks on social networking sites. No way!

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My must-reads include David Snowden on complexity, George Siemens on network learning, Jonah Lehrer on neuroscience, Steven Denning on management practice, Nancy White on building communities, Dan Pontefract on collaborative culture, and Ross Dawson on living networks. Higher ground. don’t talk much about training or learning any more.

In today’s knowledge economy, the motivation of workers is a key determinant of productivity. ve synthesized what these books are saying in my article, The Death—And Reinvention—of Management. You see, I hear horror stories of chopping entities of knowledge work into pieces and then spreading those pieces around.

link] or [link] December 2-4, 2012 Communication and Management in Technological Innovation and Academic Globalization (COMATIA ), 3 rd , Paris, France. link] December 4-5, 2012 Higher Education Asset Management and Maintenance Conference , 1 st , Vibe Savoy, Melbourne, Australia. Clayton R. " But its still a massive list. link].

There is also The 8th International Conference on Knowledge Management (ICKM) coming up in Jordan in September of this year. If there is one, then to my mind, it has got to be about the intrinsic human thirst for knowledge and for freedom have also loved the warmth and hospitality of the Arab people. KM Middle East website.

Quite simply, I have embedded a Twitter Search Widget at the bottom of the page that searches for Tweets that contain the words "knowledge management" and "job". By David Gurteen I am often told that there is shortage of KM jobs or that people do not know where to look to find them.

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Because of the way that our institutions are managed, they are no longer capable of creating real value for the economy and good jobs for people doing the work. As a result of unproductive management, the private sector is experiencing declining returns and is no longer able to provide a decent living to our citizens. Or will-power.

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After all, saving one’s tags is a cornerstone in Harold’s Personal Knowledge Management scheme of approaching the world. We’re committed to make Diigo the best cloud-based information management service that enables users to collect, highlight, access and share a variety of information, on a variety of devices.

Trends in Knowledge Management – “a short synthesis & worth a read&# : Traditionally, KM was more often than not a top-down driven approach. For example, document taxonomies and knowledge sharing procedures were defined; identified experts shared their knowledge in defined communities. Change is the norm.

also use a broader definition of technology; being the application of organized and scientific knowledge to solve practical problems. Mobile tools are poised for a major breakthrough, though more as performance support and knowledge management than courses online. spend much of my time watching the innovators, and. Open Source.

Blogging for knowledge workers : incubating ideas; by @mathemagenic. euan:  Information Fertiliser : untidy information, like blogs, makes better knowledge fertiliser: Finding the good stuff is one of the functions of bloggers. Knowledge. Knowledge Management = experience-sharing NOT information-sharing –  Knoco Stories.

APQC 2011 Knowledge Management Conference Call for Presentations [link] #KM. Key outcome from a knowledge cafe is what people take away in their heads [link] /nice summary of my process. The Death -- and Reinvention -- of Management: A draft synthesis [link]. And if you like what you see then subscribe to my Tweets.

And probably in that discussion you will create new knowledge, right? You need to have different perspectives and points of view even to have a conversation, much less to create a community or to create new knowledge. really complex kind of knowledge. Think of the knowledge it takes to do that. We'll live stream it.

Honouring Shadow Conversations It was not easy for senior management to listen to a deluge of criticism, even if it was considered legitimate. Senior management are after all people with emotions and sensitivities just like the rest of us. related businesses of Siemens Communications. merger power struggles and conflict.

est Tim Kastelle qui m’a présenté le concept  Agréger-Filtrer-Connecter pour l’innovation, que j’ai utilisé pour mon PLE (Personal Knowledge Management) avant de le changer en  Enquêter-Discerner-Partager. L’innovation Here are some of the things I learned via Twitter this past week. “It was 1977.

Wall of Knowledge - The Long Now Blog , December 8, 2009. 2b2k] From information overload to knowledge overload - Joho the Blog , December 16, 2009. On Incentivizing Knowledge Management - Gurteen Knowledge-Log , December 14, 2009. Informal Learning Flow is back! Swimming in Data? 12 Adoption Strategies for Web 2.0

My must-reads include David Snowden on complexity, George Siemens on network learning, Jonah Lehrer on neuroscience, Steven Denning on management practice, Nancy White on building communities, Dan Pontefract on collaborative culture, and Ross Dawson on living networks. Higher ground. don’t talk much about training or learning these days.

There was a picture of excited happy people in a knowledge cafe, followed by one of people slumped in boredom or asleep in a lecture theatre. Now in the keynote I had been arguing that most knowledge management programmes start in the central box of the complex domain model. So I don't oppose conversation, far from it.

Douglas Matthews, president and chief operating officer for Right Management, a division of Manpower, called the results "a wake-up call to management. and Social Media Better Than Men? » December 28, 2010 Wake-up call for employers, workers & politicians: 84% of workers want to quit! But the workers also have a problem.

Personal Knowledge Management (PKM). The online Summer Camp at the Social Learning Centre runs 16 July – 17 August and is led by Jane Hart and Harold Jarche. Learning is changing. Learning professionals need practical tools and techniques to integrate work and learning while adapting to an increasingly complex environment.

All of this will thread back to my earlier sequence of knowledge management posts by the way. Coevolution in biology references a change triggered by one object interacting with another over time. The idea has been picked up by many of us working on complexity in human systems to apply to culture, ritual, artifacts and identity.

link] December 7-9, 2009 International Association for the Scientific Knowledge (IASK) Teaching and Learning : Excellence and Quality – Timeless Challenges in Education, Proto, Portugal. link] December 17-18, 2009 International Conference on eLearning for Knowledge-Based Society , 6 th , Bangkok, Thailand. Louis, Missouri, USA. link].