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A Proven Approach for Developing Knowledge Management Strategy for 2018 and Beyond
Welcome to Fall and the Season of Strategic Planning! If your organization is like ours, you may be in the midst of meetings to reflect upon the past year and evaluate organizational performance, as well as planning sessions for a successful 2018. Strategic planning, while vital, can sometimes be a…
What Generation X Wants from the Workspace of the Future
Due to their sheer volume in the workplace, we are constantly bombarded with information and analysis about what the Millennial generation (born in the early 1980’s to the late 1990’s) desires in terms of workplace expectations, office environment, norms, and culture. However, there are at least…
5 Ways To Better Knowledge Management Blog Posts
We were recently treated to a departmental meeting featuring a guest speaker, our own boy genius Ralph Marlbrough, APQC SEO and social media manager, talking to us (by request) about how to write a good blog. As I was avidly listening to him and taking notes, I thought to myself, “Self, this…
What Can Baseball Teach Knowledge Management
Do you have a child or grandchild who plays competitive sports? If so, then you may be familiar with my weekend world of tournament baseball. For those of you not familiar, tournament baseball is for boys aged 8+. It is the more rabid and expensive alternative to Little League. People pay lots of…
Some Great Knowledge Management Books For Spring Reading
My son is in the 7th grade at Houston’s First Baptist Academy, home of the Warriors, and one of the school’s marketing posters that I used to love walking by in the school hallway was a sign with smartly dressed, fresh-faced FBA students and the caption “Begin Well.” I love this slogan – in only…
What’s Next for Communities of Practice? Participate in APQC’s New Next-generation CoPs Research
Over the past 15 years, APQC has conducted four large-scale studies on communities of practice and identified dozens of best practices related to building and sustaining effective communities. However, as technology and work norms evolve, we must consider whether classic community structures still…
Surprise! Women and Men Have Different Workplace Preferences
In my not so recent past, I was a divorced single mother, working full-time, and going part-time to a local state university for my Ph.D. That was hard. The word that I used for my life during those days was satisficing – It generally means you do the minimum on all fronts to get by. Today,…