Story is a KM Technology

This is a good look that explains how story telling is a KM technology. The speaker talks about how story is the only universal KM tool because everyone knows how to use it. Data, transactions, and events are only information and by using story it gives these things meaning and significance. Being able to understand the insight of these things gives employees a better knowledge. Story also serves as a bridge between CXO's (CEO,CIO,CFO,etc) to hand off plans to the rest of the company.

Karl-Erik Sveiby on Barriers of Knowledge Sharing

Karl-Erik Sveiby is a professor in Knowledge Management at the Sweedish Business School in Helsinki, Finland. He is also head of Sveiby Knowledge Associates(www.sveiby.com). In this interview Sveiby talks about research he conducted and explains the results. The presentation he refereed to as a walk on the darkside, illustrates the frustration employees have with the situation of companies. They feel as if they dont show up on the radars with in companies and that they are disconnected from the knowledge network. Since they are disconnected workers feel that they are not able to do the job they want to do and it seems as if they mangers are preventing them.

Visualizations improve knowledge sharing

An interesting experiment shows that visualizations can improve knowledge sharing. The experiment consisted of a 3 meetings. One arranged with visualization software, another with a flip chart, and lastly a regular boring meeting. After a 45min task meeting there is a distraction task that lasts an hour. Productivity in the meeting with the visualization software as well as the quality of the work was higher. Knowledge gains also showed an increase while using visualization software. Interestingly, a study in Asia will be conducted to see if it is independent to culture.