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Remember the last time you packed your bag in preparation for a business trip?
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We need to find ways to package knowledge into easily accessible "knowledge assets" - structured with a customer in mind.
The steps below are taken from the best-selling fieldbook "Learning to Fly - Practical knowledge management from leading and learning organisations" Wholesale Robert Horry Jersey , written by Chris Collison and Geoff Parcell. They don't require sophisticated, bespoke technology just a wilingness to think-through and structure what has been learned.
1. Identify a customer for this knowledge. Have a clear customer - current or future - in mind when considering the creation of a knowledge asset.
2. Get clear what your knowledge asset is really about. What is the scope of your knowledge asset? A knowledge asset needs to cover a specific area of business activity.
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4. Collate any existing material upon which you can base your knowledge asset and look for general guidelines. Provide some context so that people can understand the purpose and relevance of the knowledge asset. Are there general guidelines that you can distil out of this material?
5. Build a checklist illustrated with examples and stories. The checklist should tell the user of the knowledge asset:
"What are the questions I need to ask myself?" "What are the steps that I need to take?"
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6. Include links to people. Create a hyperlink to the person's personal home page or e-mail address wherever you mention them in the text. Include a list of all the people with any relationship with the content. Use thumbnail photographs if you have them available.
date the Guidelines Circulate the guidelines around the community again, and ask "Do the guidelines accurately reflect your knowledge and experience?" "Do you have anything to add?"
8. Publish the knowledge asset. Store the knowledge in a space where it can be accessed by its community. Often this will mean the company intranet.
9. Initiate a feedback and ownership process. Encourage feedback from users Cheap Brandon Ingram Jersey , so that they pick up and eliminate any invalid recommendations. Instil a sense of obligation that "if you use it, then you should add to it".
Over time, you'll build up a series of knowledge assets which relate to the key practices in your organisation ? the areas which can bring competitive advantage. The creation of these tangible knowledge assets provides a focus for the communities of practice associated with each one, and ultimately will give credibility to your knowledge management efforts.
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