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Driving and sustaining community engagement is a challenge for many organizations, but Microsoft has found an effective way to keep energy and enthusiasm high. As part of…
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Use Culture Accelerators to Super Charge Communities
Microsoft conducts culture accelerators workshops to guide community leads and members through fun, highly productive community activities that result in tangible community…
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Think Tank: KM for a More Virtual Workforce
People everywhere are adapting to a “new normal” of all-virtual work. KM has spent decades connecting employees across locations and silos, and now it’s becoming the glue…
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Relationships become a barrier to knowledge sharing when employees don’t know and trust one another or when they lack tools to search for colleagues based on their expertise,…
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In March 2020, APQC hosted a webinar with KM leaders from Toyota Motors North America, Ruckus Networks, and Schlumberger to find out how they have overcome cultural hurdles…
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KM in 2020: Innovating in the Face of Disruption
At the beginning of the year, APQC surveyed its KM audience about the technology and business changes affecting their organizations, as well as what they are doing to keep KM…
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The best time to learn something is when you need to learn it. This concept is called the “teachable moment,” a time when someone is faced with a new situation, problem, or…
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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…