We live in a world of constant and increasing information overload, where the boundaries between fact and fiction, truth and perception, best practice and burnt out, and needs and wants, are blurred by deadlines and often archaic management practices.
We need to be able to sense a specific knowledge need, gather or retrieve appropriate information and facts, package and share it with others in an unambiguous format of knowledge transfer and then evaluate whether we have effectively met that need.
We live in a world of constant & increasing information overload with little knowledge creation and distribution.
If so, we need to store and retain the magic for re-use by others and we need to make sure that they know it’s there. If not, we need to start over until the magic of information transformation is achieved and the new knowledge is created and distributed.
It is essential to realise however, that the moment we move back, out of the Human Domain, where the complex processes of synthesis and “judgement in context” can only be applied and we store our new knowledge back in the Digital or Physical Domains, it reverts back to information and data – and the magic is gone – until it is re-used, in context, by others and with new wisdom.
For this reason, effective Knowledge Management cannot be achieved by a series of independent and disparate initiatives or fancy software tools – it needs to exist in an integrated framework, combining strategic insight with functional simplicity.
Effective Knowledge Management can only be achieved using an integrated systems thinking approach.
Philip Marsh presents “Tools
and techniques for knowledge transfer in Structured Mentoring
interventions” at
the Knowledge Resources 10th Annual Coaching
and Mentoring Conference on 23rd March 2011
Philip Marsh presented “Using
Structured Mentoring for effective Graduate Development“ on
the 25 Nov 2010 at the ARUP Annual Graduate Forum.
Philip Marsh and Ilze Swanepoel facilitated
a “Senior Academics Mentors Forum” on
the 29 Oct 2010 at UNISA College of Human Sciences.
Philip Marsh presented “Knowledge
Transfer for Baby Boomers” on the 16 Sept
2010 at the IIR 4th Annual Engineering Manager Conference
2010.
Marion Stone and Margaux Reitsma presented “Retaining
Scarce & Critical Skills through Structured Mentoring” on
the 20 July 2010 at the Cape Chamber. .
Philip Marsh presented the “Thinking
Mentor” on the 18 March 2010 at the Knowledge
Resources 10th Annual Coaching and Mentoring conference.
