Archive for ‘K-Factor’

Jerry Ash, knowledge management expert turned smart people champion, uses lessons learned and lessons learning to bring together two great forces – social networking and knowledge work

KM Six Pack #6

Networks: Power of sharing, learning, discovering together. By Jerry Ash. This is the sixth and final column in a series of six articles introducing newly engaged employees and managers to the basics of knowledge-based enterprise. In the early 1960s, a U.S. senator was making a surprise tour of the Kennedy...
November 25th, 2009 | 01 (7) 2009 / html, FREE articles, K-Factor | Read More

KM Six Pack #5

People: Managing, not hoarding, personal knowledge. By Jerry Ash. This is the fifth in a series of six articles introducing newly engaged employees and managers to the basics of knowledge-based enterprise. True story: A company installed an expensive software program to assist call center technicians...
November 5th, 2009 | 01 (6) 2009 / html, FREE articles, K-Factor | Read More

KM Six Pack #4

Company: Not managing but enabling knowledge. By Jerry Ash. This is the fourth in a series of six articles introducing newly engaged employees and managers to the basics of knowledge-based enterprise. Before cultural change in a knowledge-based organization can occur on the shop floor, the right corporate...
September 17th, 2009 | 01 (5) 2009 / html, FREE articles, K-Factor | Read More

KM Six Pack #3

Technology: Not the solution, but essential support system. By Jerry Ash. This is the third in a series of six articles introducing newly engaged employees and managers to the basics of knowledge-based enterprise. Although often technology is mistakenly characterized as a knowledge management delivery...
August 17th, 2009 | 01 (4) 2009 / html, FREE articles, K-Factor | Read More

KM Six Pack #2

KM helps people, companies attain critical success factors. By Jerry Ash. This is the second in a series of six articles introducing newly engaged employees and managers to the basics of knowledge-based enterprise. When knowledge management became a hot topic in the 1990s, management assumed the purpose...
July 12th, 2009 | 01 (3) 2009 / html, FREE articles, K-Factor | Read More

KM Six Pack #1

Brainwork is a fact of life for the 21st century enterprise. By Jerry Ash. This is the first in a series of six articles introducing newly engaged employees and managers to the basics of knowledge-based enterprise. The importance of knowledge as a resource is nothing new, particularly when an industry...
May 13th, 2009 | 01 (2) 2009 / html, FREE articles, K-Factor | Read More

When the digital gens meet the KMers

By Jerry Ash Smart People magazine. For 175 years we have been taught that people are hired not for what they know, but for what they can do. They’ve been trained, handed job descriptions and told their futures depended on performing to the standards. Without regard for what people have already learned,...
April 12th, 2009 | 01 (1) 2009 / html, FREE articles, K-Factor | Read More