Organizational Knowledge News Today

In this fast-paced digital world, managing and harnessing the power of knowledge within an organization has become more crucial than ever before.

Report highlights two major challenges facing organizations: finding information from workplace applications, and turning that information into useful knowledge October...

PHOTO: Yasin Arıbuğa | unsplash I once worked with a company that would say farewell to long-serving employees by publishing an exit interview with them in the company magazine. People would say, "Gosh, I never realized Sally knew all about X, I wish I’d asked her about it before she went." We came to call these interviews "knowledge obituaries." You pay good money to hire people with experience, expertise and the right qualifications. Yet sometimes the diligence that goes into valu...

PHOTO: Kelly Sikkema | unsplash Let’s be honest. Before COVID-19 upended everything, very few organizations were doing knowledge management (KM) well. In their defense, KM — and I mean really good and effective KM — is hard. It can be expensive, takes a level of dedication many organizations don’t have the capacity for, and the payoff often takes longer than expected, leading some to think its a lower-value activity. Knowledge management utopia simply did not exist for ma...