This briefing contrasts the role of knowledge management in supporting both innovation and consistency.

While ‘knowledge sharing’ is a common goal for KM projects, it is often neither meaningful or effective.

A successful knowledge management strategy must identify the key needs and issues within the organisation, and provide a framework for addressing these.

The intranet can serve as a platform for knowledge management initiatives, via approaches such as collaborative environments, staff directories, wikis and weblogs.

The front-line environment must be understood when implementing knowledge management initiatives.

This briefing focuses on who to select for stakeholder interviews. It provides some general guidelines, and lists some areas of the organisation to involve.

Stakeholder interviews are a very effective way of gaining an understanding of an organisation, and can be considered a form of ‘knowledge mapping’.

This briefing presents a simple checklist that will allow you to judge just how much work will be required to bring your intranet back to top performance.

Metrics are an effective way of setting project targets, assessing success, and tracking ongoing health. This article summarises a range of practical KM and CM-related metrics.

KM has much to learn from usability, which can provide many useful starting points for structuring and managing KM projects.