It’s always useful to look at what your competition is doing. The same is true in drafting your code of conduct (or code of...
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Knowledge Management
Data Breaches and Knowledge Management
One of the features of the new Massachusetts Data Privacy Law is that it forces some knowledge management on companies in the context of data breaches.
Since the law required compliance on or before March 1, 2010, I assume you already have the policy and safeguards in place. That is, if you have social security...
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The Four Areas of Risk and Knowledge
When thinking about risk, I break things into four quadrants. There are things we know and there are things we don’t know as individuals. I then slice slice that further again with the things we know and the things we don’t know as part of the larger organization or conscious state.
Our sweet spot is...
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Who Knows What?
A nice piece in Monday’s Wall Street Journal on knowledge management: Who Knows What? Finding in-house experts isn’t easy. But most companies make it harder than it should be. The article, by Dorit Nevo, Izak Benbasat and Yair Wand, explores the expertise location benefits of enterprise 2.0.
The authors describe the use of blogs, wikis, social...
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Personal Knowledge Management and Compliance
Today, I am presenting at the Boston KM Forum on Personal Knowledge Management. My presentation is part an all-day symposium on personal knowledge management.
My take on this subject is that knowledge management had been too focused on the benefits to the enterprise instead of the immediate benefits to the individual.
Firehose of Information
We are all...
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Web 2.0, Knowledge Management and Professional Development
Mark Frydenberg is teaching a new, experimental class at Bentley University’s: CS 299 – Web 2.0: Technology, Strategy, Community. I am the experiment today, telling my story to his students.
The focus of my presentation will be how I learned about Web 2.0, started using it as a knowledge management tool and how I now...
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Happy Columbus Day
I decided to take the day off for Columbus Day. School is closed and the office is closed.
Although, I posted this picture. So I guess I did something related to compliance.
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Federal Knowledge Management Working Group
The Federal Knowledge Management Working Group consists of over 700 Federal employees, contractors, academicians and interested members of the public who have mounted a campaign to enhance collaboration, knowledge and learning in the Federal Government by implementing formal knowledge management.
Neil Olonoff, who is the leader for the initiative looking at the formation of a...
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Knowledge Management Sites Search
I have update my KM Sites search tool.
The search below is built from a custom Google Search
It searches the following sites:
3 Geeks and a Law Blog
Aa..ha!
Above and Beyond KM by Mary Abraham
AcidLabs by Stephen Collins
All...
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Knowledge Management and Compliance
One of the reasons for moving from knowledge management to compliance was the overlap in concepts and some issues. Sumner Blount summarized a lunch talk from Scott Mitchell of OCEG discussing the need for a unified approach to managing risk and compliance:
1. The high cost of information silos – siloed approaches to risk and compliance...
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