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Tweets from 18 May NetIKX / CLSIG seminar on making the most of Sharepoint

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The NetIKX chair, Suzanne Burge (@suzanne_london), gave me the idea of collating my tweets @ecgoodman for further reference.  So here they are, in original form, and of course to be read in reverse order! #NetIKX49 another write-up of the #Sharepoint seminar @tfpl_Ltd http://ow.ly/50qBe #NetIKX49 Write-up of #Sharepoint seminar by @Valskelton http://ow.ly/50qy0 Noeleen Schenk doing final …

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Knowledge management and creativity / innovation – valuable adjuncts to project management. A case study

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Knowledge management and creativity/ innovation enhance project management. I am a firm believer in the value of knowledge management to enhance project management.  I also believe that the use of formal structures, such as those advocated in Lean and Six Sigma (or process improvement), and project management, give people more rather than less scope for …

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Achieving more value with less

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As Stephen R. Covey, Bob Whitman and Breck England point out, in their one-hundred-and-ten page “Predictable results in unpredictable times”1: “in bad times, the distractions are more severe than ever… As people get laid off, the survivors have more to do.  The distractions pile up to the sky as the economy grows rougher…” In our …

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Deep Visuals Ltd – how Kodak’s knowledge assets did not quite ‘walk out of the door’

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When Alan Payne, then Director of Kodak’s European Research team, found out that his 25 strong Cambridge unit was to close in early 2009, he spotted an opportunity that was to prove irresistible.  He suggested to one of the US business heads that they could continue the project they had been working on, outside of …

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URS – a case study of an organisation that values the resources and knowledge of its employees

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A few years ago, URS had a change in Managing Director for its UK business, and an opportunity to re-appraise how it was running the business.  It recognised that a key factor was the resource and knowledge of URS’s employees, and its desire to not only retain people, but also ensure that they had a …

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Knowledge assets have been walking out of the door – is anyone taking note?

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When I was leading our knowledge management strategy development at SmithKline Beecham in 2000, and then, briefly, part of the team driving GlaxoSmithKline’s KM strategy in 2001, there was a lot of talk about conducting exit interviews to capture people’s knowledge before they walked out of the door. Reading Melissie Clemmons Rumizen’s very good and …

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