In english: Common knowledge: how companies thrive by sharing what they know . Personally I had abandoned the term 'knowledge transfer' because I thought it's impossible to transfer knowledge. still I feel the term knowledge transfer implies an easiness in handing over knowledge which is misleading) She first does away with three mythes about knowledge transfer: 1. I went to the local library because they had purchased their first book on weblogs (apparently Rosmalen is about to enter blogosphere). But someone had borrowed it already

picture: Mariette Heres In the Broker you can find an article called Aid is a knowledge industry in which Mariette Heres argues that " although NGOs are taking more interest in knowledge management, they have so far failed to recognize that they are part of a knowledge industry, of which the delivery of goods and services is only a part." I think it is interesting to put up such a statement, which makes people think. Unfortunately she does not define what a knowledge industry is, which makes the argumentation weaker. And there is no definition to be found on wikipedia.

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Once again I have come across how it’s more important to cultivate conditions for knowledge creation and sharing over trying to manage knowledge or capture it a week before it walks out the door. Actually I ranted about this on Tumblr the other day, starting off with: “Following, “if only we knew what we know”, how about, “if only we could connect people to create knowledge that does not yet exist” They both allude to a similar thing, but the actions of the second statement lead to fulfilling the first statement, and more.” 8221;

Here’s a nice, concise 2 part video presentation from James Alexander of the US Food Safety and Inspection service based in Washington DC, describing how they got started in a knowledge retention programme for their leaders and also subject matter experts. I liked the way they laid out progressively more complex options to their senior leadership, from a rapid response knowledge retention interview team who could deal with individual cases as they arose, all the way to a more structured individual and group knowledge capture programme, and looking after the knowledge transfer side

We share ‘information’, whereas ‘knowledge’ may be something I create with you through interaction, and we both may come away with slightly different versions, meaning, and impact of that exchange. ie we use our current knowledge or understanding to make sense of new information, and if it really makes sense to us or to our context; or we use it in action, then it will imprint as a pattern or fragment in our person. It’s absolutely paramount that KM sheds its skin of codifying and storing in a database…this is just information management. Sure

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to businesses (Specially, if you think about the good old KM meme of "Knowledge Transfer" of senior employees about to retire to younger ones). mean, when was the last time, while at work, you stopped doing what you were doing and started looking around at the various peer knowledge workers close to you? Not sure what you would think, but I *do* believe there is such distinction of how various generations I know that plenty of folks out there do not buy into the argument of the generational divide; most people think it’s just something that has been designed and developed to sell the concept of Enterprise 2.0

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Home About Full Circle Resources Contact Us Full Circus Full Circle Associates connections for a changing world, online and offline… Monday, June 04, 2007 Using Knowledge Sharing to Think About Knowledge Sharing Last week I asked for your help, dear readers, in moving my thinking forward about a useful way to organize and share knowledge sharing (KS) methods. This came out of the call from a variety of corners for "knowledge sharing toolkits" and workshops.