APQC talked to Darrin Brogan of EY about how culture change in KM is a daily challenge. Brogan is content strategy, quality, assurance, and measurement leader for enterprise content in EY’s knowledge organization. He’ll be delivering a presentation titled “Don’t Wait for Content: Using a Targeted…
APQC recently spoke to Rebecca Glassman, senior manager of knowledge management at Opower, about how her organization cleaned up its internal wiki and made it a thriving part of the Opower KM program. Rebecca will deliver a presentation titled “Curating Content: Engaging Wiki Users at Scale” at…
APQC recently spoke to Jennifer Cheung, director of knowledge management at Cisco, about how her organization improved its KM program through innovation and crowdsourcing. Cheung will deliver a presentation titled “Harnessing the Collective IQ and Fostering Innovation” at APQC’s 2014 Knowledge…
“Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears…” (Spanky McFarland, Our Gang 1935)—and your thinking. During APQC’s latest Advanced Working Group (AWG), which ended this February, a long-time nemesis of marketing knowledge management was tackled (or at least slowed down): enumerating the value of…
APQC was fortunate enough to talk to Karen Lekowski of John Deere about how her organization improved its knowledge management program by asking employees what they needed most. Karen works in Enterprise Content Management Services at John Deere and will be presenting on this topic at APQC’s 2014…
In part two of our interview with Alice MacGillivray, she talks about why leadership is critical to a culture of collaboration. In part one of this interview, she talked about boundaries, leadership, and use of edge-effect. Alice MacGillivray, Ph.D., is a management consultant who works at the…
In a recent thread in a knowledge management discussion group, I was embroiled in a KM maturity conversation (okay, truth be told, I embroiled myself—but I couldn’t help it). The initial post was innocent enough, something about existing maturity models. Since APQC has its own Levels of KM Maturity…
I would like to share some intriguing findings from a hot new APQC research project: turning the shortage of experts in scientific, technical, and engineering specialties on its ear and asking how organizations can leverage the experts they have. This is the first in a series of posts…
In part one of our interview with Alice MacGillivray, she talks about boundaries, leadership, and use of edge-effect. Alice MacGillivray, Ph.D., is a management consultant who works at the intersection of knowledge management, complexity, and leadership. Alice co-designed and directed the first MA…
Back in January, you told us that content management is a key focus for 2014. Right now, APQC is conducting research to find out what organizations are doing to improve access to content and which tools and approaches are most effective. On a recent APQC survey of more than 400…