This is a summary of contributions by participants in three rounds of Knowledge Café discussions at KM World on November 5 2015, and facilitated by Patrick Lambe. We’d like to thank the 25 KM professionals who shared their challenges, experience and advice so generously. The topics covered in the discussion were:

• Challenge of inexperience
• What Buy-in is and is not
• Where buy-in needs to come from
• How to get support and buy-in
• Pitfalls
• Characteristics of effective knowledge managers

Read the notes here: 

Getting_and_Sustaining_Buyin.pdf