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This is the Chinese version of the Taxonomy poster that Patrick shared in 2012.


To download the PDF version of the Chinese poster, click here.


I had enjoyed being part of the process of translating the original poster into Chinese. It felt like visiting an old friend. While I had studied Chinese for about 12 years there was never a need or opportunity to use it in business – until now, 22 years later.


I’d be interested to know if anyone of you finds the translated poster useful.

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This is the keynote address from Dr Steve Ellis of HSBC at the KM Singapore Conference 13 August 2009. The topic was “knowledge based working in the current economic climate” and Dr Ellis argued that while the pressures of an economic crisis tended to make managers less prone to think in terms of long term KM investments and gains, this environment (a) shows the value of knowledge worker skills and (b) focuses knowledge managers on delivering tangible value.


Watch it on vimeo here.


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In this evening talk for iKMS, Ron Young explains that personal knowledge management is a foundational element for any kind of knowledge management, and argues that it forms a basic set of competencies for any knowledge worker.


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In this second part of a talk on personal knowledge management for the iKMS, Ron Young argues that the arrival of Web 2.0 massively enables personal knowledge management, and that this will inevitably have an impact on organisational KM.


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Art Schlussel was interviewed at KM World 2010 and the following 3 videos were recorded and produced.


In video 1, Art Schlussel covers:

1. Introducing the US Army KM Principles

2. What do the US Army KM Principles cover?

3. How do the KM Principles support KM Implementation?


Watch it on vimeo here.


In video 2, Art Schlussel covers:

1. How does the US Army build its KM Capabilities?

2. What is the US Army doing about KM Competencies, Education and Training?

3. What is the primary goal for KM Education and Training in the Army?

4.What sort of Skills need to be trained?


Watch it on vimeo here.


In video 3, Art Schlussel covers:

1. What are the factors that support or inhibit KM in a military context?

2. How can the inhibiting effect of a Command and Control culture be addressed?


Watch it on vimeo here.

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Here’s our latest infographic poster (formatted for A2 printing) on our knowledge audit process. We also have a video tutorial on the process here. Let us know if you have any questions!


Download the full-size poster here (2MB file).

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Back in May 2013, we held a Roundtable on Knowledge Retention Techniques. Carla Newman, Shaharudin Mohd Ishak and Ashad Ahmed very graciously shared with us their journey and experiences in Knowledge Retention.


Carla Newman – ROCK (Retention of Critical Knowledge)

Go to the show page on vimeo by clicking here


Shaharudin Mohd Ishak on IE Singapore’s RACK (Retention of All Critical Knowledge)

Go to the show page on vimeo by clicking here


Arshad Ahmed on Knowledge Retention

Go to the show page on vimeo by clicking here

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Our friend Maish Nichani has done it again with this elegantly stated piece on breaking the curse of “automagical” search. It contains my quote of the week: “When thinking about search, it is better to think of ROI not as return-on-investment but return-on-information.”


The piece reminded me of a video podcast Matt Moore and I did a while back on “taxonomy fairy tales” – since then, Google (one of our targets) has come out of the taxonomy closet – however much of what we said then remains true. Maish’s piece does a nice job of pointing to the practical steps to get beyond the curse of magical thinking among executives.