Elisabeth Goodman

Knowledge Management: past, present and future – notes on a NetIKX seminar (#NetIKX60)

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By Elisabeth Goodman Knowledge Management past and present It’s NetIKX’s 21st year since it’s original formation in 1992 as the IRM (Information Resource Management) group under Aslib.  This seminar (in March 2013) was an opportunity for Stuart Ward (Forward Consulting) to reflect on the past and present of Knowledge Management, and for Alison (Lissi) Corfield …

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Creating and finding those inspirational managers for our teams – a Cambridge Network event

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People leave their managers not their companies “70% of people leave their managers or supervisors, not their company”.  These were some of the research findings shared with us this morning by Sue Gibson, Human Resources Consultant at DoubleG Assosiates LLP, in a Cambridge Network Breakfast meeting on retention and motivation of staff.  She also told …

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The mindset for Open Innovation – at “Open Innovation in Action” SBC OI summit

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By Elisabeth Goodman and Lucy Loh We had the opportunity to lead a break-out session at the recent Stevenage Bioscience Catalyst (SBC) Open Innovation summit.  It was a day filled with interesting presentations, panel discussions, networking and break-out sessions. Open Innovation is all about people Our session was one of the last in the day, …

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The needs of globally dispersed, innovative, teams

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In our August 2012 RiverRhee Consulting newsletter, my Associates and I wrote about our insights on working in virtual teams, so it was with some interest that I read about “10 rules for managing global innovation” in the October issue of Harvard Business Review (HBR)1. After all, that’s what most ‘virtual’, ‘dispersed’ or ‘far flung’ …

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Getting it right rather than ‘firefighting’…unless that’s your job!

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By Elisabeth Goodman Being a ‘farmer’ not a ‘firefighter’ Some years ago when I was first learning about Lean and Six Sigma, a colleague shared an article he’d found comparing farmers and firefighters. People in organisations are often singled out when they have worked all hours to deal with a crisis, and yet the people …

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Making Knowledge Work – Beyond Lessons Learned – Notes from APM #KSIGDDAY

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APM prospective Knowledge SIG Conference – 5th July 2012 Based on the @ecgoodman twitter stream tagged with #KSIGDDAY @APMProjectMgmt #KM Meeting kicking off – looking forward to it! The meeting started with some speed networking in which I met lots of great people from all sectors of work, the UK, sizes of organisation, and levels …

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Failure modes and effect analysis (FMEA) a personal case study culminating in an aborted transatlantic flight

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I have just spent a very comfortable night in a Heathrow hotel, after a 5 hour round trip spent in the air somewhere between London and Boston.  Although eating airline food, watching a (not very good) movie, and having a doze mid-air might be one way to spend an afternoon in May, it would not …

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Lessons Learned – notes from an APM web briefing

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By Elisabeth Goodman and John Riddell, RiverRhee Consulting (Preview of a blog to appear on the APM website) A recent discussion thread on the APM (Association for Project Management) website focussed on the potential value of Lessons Learned and the failure modes that generally occur.  We have edited the points made in the discussion thread into …

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Why is employee engagement such an important topic?

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By Elisabeth Goodman My blog on employee engagement (Employee engagement – some interesting data and perspectives for Lean and Six Sigma practitioners) is, of all the blogs that I have written since 2009), the one that has attracted the most attention.  I wrote it in response to an article I read in the business section …

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