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Will AI save Knowledge Management?

Since its emergence 30 years ago, knowledge management has sought to capture, share and enhance the collective knowledge of organizations. But despite technological and methodological advances, one central challenge persists: how to make explicit the tacit knowledge that resides in the minds of employees? As AI makes its thunderous arrival...

The knowledge base: a lifeline for your employees

The topic of employee onboarding and mentoring raises the question of passing on a certain amount of knowledge that an employee needs to acquire. The central issue of employee integration. Behind all this is a major issue: what makes an employee perform well? There are many things that contribute to this....

An overly informal organization, irritant #14 of the employee experience

In this project, which consisted in listing and explaining all what I call the "irritants of employee experience", which are nothing less than all the points and causes of friction that simply prevent people from doing their job as well and efficiently as they can, I did not necessarily...

Retainment and Difficulty in Accessing and Using Information. Irritant #5 of the employee experience.

If the information exists we will find it on Google! This reflex so evident in our daily experiences does not survive the crash test of corporate experience. I will not discuss the fact that by being sure to find any information through a search engine, one does not try to...

Beyond social (part 2) : new ways of learning

In short: even if traditional approaches have fine days ahead, there's an increasing need for niche learning in a conversational and adhoc fashion. A need that can be met with the help of social technologies but they won't be enough to prevent enterprises from updating their view of learning...

Is your organization conductive ?

Summary : a conductive organization knows how to organize on information flows and turn them not into inert matter but into actionable assets to serve the market and sustain its own success. Information management is not an isolated discipline but a comprehensive approach of how the whole company should...

From noise to situational intelligence

Sumary : many users say that the problem that enterprise social platforms is the risk of infobesity and informational noise. Reality is more complex. As for infobesity, these platformes only collect information and have few impact on the fact people and systems generate more. The problem is more about...

Managing information and people is not the same thing

Summary : "accept as friend", "add to your network", "follow" are concepts that are more and more present in our personal and business lives. That does not come without human issues. One may be interested in the messages, information, signals shared by another person without having a good relationship...

The future of business starts at school. Still a long way to go

Résumé :despite enterprises know they need to change the way they work, they make very slow progress at undertaking a deep change process. The unwieldiness ot their organizational structure is not the only reason to that. People have become the slow factor of change and not only because people...

Investing in people ? Are you kidding ?

Summary : the knowledge economy rely on people as an efficiency and growth driver. That's a given. To ensure the competitiveness of businesses in the future, new operating models, frameworks and practices will be needed. That's understood but not easy to implement. Investing in human and the frameworks that...