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Why Do KM Programs Struggle to Get Connected to Companies’ Business Goals?
The short answer? Because they don’t start with the business goals in mind! As simple and as common sense as that seems, it’s analogous to the sales person who talks to a prospective customer about why the sales person’s company is so good—without ever asking for the sale itself. That is, the…
Adam Grant Interview Part 2: Author of Give and Take On How To Facilitate Sharing Knowledge in KM Communities
On February 25, 2014 Carla O’Dell, CEO of APQC and knowledge management (KM) expert, led a conversation with Adam Grant, Wharton professor and author of the best-selling Give and Take (A Revolutionary Approach to Success) and APQC’s KM Advanced Working Group. The following is part two of that…
Adam Grant, Author of Give and Take, On Keys To Building KM Communities
On February 25, 2014 Carla O’Dell, CEO of APQC and knowledge management (KM) expert, led a conversation with Adam Grant, Wharton professor and author of the best-selling Give and Take (A Revolutionary Approach to Success) and APQC’s KM Advanced Working Group. The following is a condensed version of…
How EY Used Knowledge Champions to Change Its KM Culture
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…
The 3 Biggest Problems Facing Internal Wikis
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…
How Cisco Uses Meaningful Incentives and Crowdsourcing to Jumpstart Innovation
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…
Mathematical Formula to Prove Value of Knowledge Management
“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…
How John Deere Improved KM by Asking Employees What’s Most Important
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…
Knowledge Management Spotlight: Why Leaders Matter for a Culture of Collaboration
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…
What Is KM Maturity and Why Does It Matter?
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…