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To fully engage their audience, knowledge management teams need be creative about when, where, and how they provide training. If training happens in the wrong context or the…
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Most employees need encouragement and guidance to feel comfortable submitting or sharing their knowledge. However, some overeager contributors flood KM systems with content…
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Few individuals can influence the success or failure of knowledge management (KM) as much as knowledge leaders such as subject matter experts, mentors, or community of…
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Executives can motivate large numbers of employees to get on board with KM by promoting its value and role-modeling knowledge-sharing behaviors. However, these leaders are…
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Reinforce and Refresh KM Training as Needed
If employees don’t have (or don’t think they have) an immediate need to use KM, they may forget how and why to do so. Even employees with good KM habits need refreshers,…
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Knowledge management (KM) has a natural affinity with science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) disciplines. However, STEM workers themselves may not know what KM is,…
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APQC’s research cites distance as one of the top barriers to knowledge sharing inside organizations. Distance can become a problem when separation between individuals, teams,…
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APQC’s research cites culture as one of the top barriers to knowledge sharing inside organizations. Culture barriers arise when the organization as a whole does not value…
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Managing Knowledge Across the Employee Lifecycle
Every employee can benefit from knowledge management, but a new hire will benefit from different KM resources and activities than an expert nearing retirement. In this…
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Disruption has become the new normal. Digital transformation; market shifts; changes in consumer preferences; new business models; and the growing frequency of mergers,…
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The Power of Partnership: How KM and Process Can Work With—Not Against—Related Functions
As the fields of process and knowledge management evolve, these teams may find their missions overlapping with other support functions. For example, efforts to transfer…
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APQC has identified six potential barriers that can impede the transfer of best practices between teams or locations within the same organization. This article describes the…
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Knowledge management (KM) teams often find that their goals and activities overlap with those of the learning and development (L&D) organization. Both want to connect people…
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Building a KM Partnership with HR
Under the umbrella of HR, the learning and development organization is the most obvious target for knowledge management (KM) partnership. However, KM may also need to partner…
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Delivering KM Value During Crises and Chaos
In today’s organizations, jarring, rapid-fire change is becoming the new normal. This means that KM teams must learn to thrive amidst a barrage of mergers, acquisitions,…
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