It was my great pleasure today to be the opening keynote at the KM Singapore conference organised by iKMS on 1 September 2011. My key…
How new technologies can help KM.
It was a great pleasure to present at KM Australia today in Sydney. My talk took a pragmatic look at how changing technologies can support…
Interview with Faith Wainwright of Arup.
When I was in London late last year, I was pleased to have an opportunity to record a video interview with Faith Wainwright of Arup….
Intranets for call centre staff.
Call centre staff have important information needs that greatly influence the quality of customer service provided.
Knowledge managers: stuck in the shadow of immortal figures.
When in London recently I spent a productive and interesting day with a knowledge manager in a small-ish organisation. In the job for six months,…
Three tiers of collaboration.
There are many elements of collaboration, and we often encounter the “blind men and the elephant problem”. We’re all talking about collaboration, but we’re actually…
There are no "KM systems".
Organisations should abandon the search for ‘knowledge management systems’, and focus more closely on the specific capabilities required.
Good search is knowledge management.
Beyond just helping staff to ‘find stuff’, search can play a valuable role in meeting broader knowledge management goals.
Two types of in-bound call centres.
In-bound call centres deal with either queries or transactions (or both), and this has a big impact on the knowledge and information required.
KM for consistency and innovation.
This briefing contrasts the role of knowledge management in supporting both innovation and consistency.