Preamble Some time back, I was asked to conduct knowledge transfer sessions for a new team member. knew that the kind of work experience I had to transfer contained more tacit knowledge than explicit, and the problem lay in being able to codify everything and do a successful “transfer” in about a span of two weeks. I was afraid that most tacit knowledge would be lost unless I had someone with me who “understood” what I meant. We made brave attempts to capture the tacit knowledge in the form of mind maps, checklists, excel sheets, questionnaires, and video recordings. MORE >>

The benefits of knowledge management (KM) are a monster value-add to any organization. Nevertheless, the more I learn how companies capture and leverage their intellectual property, the more disheartened I become. How could such a straightforward process for transferring information and learning become bogged down in dense MBA rhetoric taking what is essentially a simple idea and obfuscating it in layers of process and jargon? Flash History of Knowledge Management. Then each would become a teacher and spread knowledge throughout the empire. m not one of them. MORE >>

Traditionally, the path to investigating knowledge management is - appropriately - by attempting to categorize the knowledge. Categories of Knowledge is a post from: E-Learning Curve Blog. Tags: e-learning corporate knowledge definition of elearning definition of knowledge elearning explicit knowledge formal knowledge KB KM knowledge ecosystem Knowledge Management tacit knowledge MORE >>

I've been reading a lot over the past few months around Personal Learning Environments and a lot of related material. world that included a post by Bill Ives - Managing Personal Knowledge: Setting a Foundation for Transformation? adoption is getting folks to manage their personal knowledge and adopt practices like blogging for personal knowledge management (PKM) and personal learning. Learning-Knowledge-Work - they really are the same and I need to do them all at once. In it, he points out that a stepping stone to Enterprise 2.0 MORE >>

Learning games are hot… and they may just be the future of learning. We are certainly major advocates of game based learning : we are heading to DevLearn in just a few short days to launch our Knowledge Guru learning game engine as a product. Despite all the praise learning games are receiving, business decision makers still need to connect the value of learning games to the bottom line. Will we see a measured increase in profits – or decrease in operating costs – by using a learning game as part of our training program? MORE >>