Share what you know…
In today’s business landscape, time-to-market can be a relevant factor that can make or break new product or service launches.
It is of the essence that you eleminate wasting time by not knowing about existing knowledge within your business. Rather than redefine modules, products, services or processes at every instance you’d like your associates to bring their knowledge together for everyone’s benefit.
True collaboration starts with a central node where people share what they know;
of your smart business.
We quote from Wikipedia: Knowledge Management (KM) comprises a range of strategies and practices used in an organization to identify, create, represent, distribute, and enable adoption of insights and experiences. Such insights and experiences comprise knowledge, either embodied in individuals or embedded in organizational processes or practice.
Many large companies and non-profit organizations have resources dedicated to internal KM efforts, often as a part of their ‘business strategy‘, ‘information technology‘, or ‘human resource management‘ departments (Addicott, McGivern & Ferlie 2006). Several consulting companies also exist that provide strategy and advice regarding KM to these organizations.
Knowledge Management efforts typically focus on organizational objectives such as improved performance, competitive advantage, innovation, the sharing of lessons learned, integration and continuous improvement of the organization. KM efforts overlap with organizational learning, and may be distinguished from that by a greater focus on the management of knowledge as a strategic asset and a focus on encouraging the sharing of knowledge.
Learn what you don’t…
If you’re not a specialist in Knowledge Management, why not learn from us?
For all the things you may or may not know in the vast subject of Knowledge management the real question is: “do you have the experience?”Why waste your valuable time and risk missing practical insights regarding infrastructure, ergonomics or user friendliness? If you’re considering starting out a knowledge management project and you’re not yet a customer get in touch for a first encounter.
In our approach we like to familiarize ourselves profoundly with the organisation so that we can help you identify which approach would be most benificial to your structure. No two businesses are identical after all! So as we learn about your specific challenges and we bring our expertise to the table we can start to identify potential suppliers.
If on the other hand you already have a KM system in place but would like your users to be more engaged users, we can discuss what training would help drive better Knowledge sharing and transfer as well as adherence to your KM program.
Technology
Our clients have called on us to help implement a variety of technologies and Knowledge Management systems.
At The Collaboration Company we are agnostic and work with any selected technology. This approach has two major benefits; first of all we can guarantees our independence in respect to the varied landscape of suppliers and their selection and second we are a specialist in Knowledge Management and not just in “a technological solution”.
Amongst the many technological suppliers in the field of Knowledge management we have worked with we can cite the following:
Wiki systems
We help implement open-source Wiki systems and have experience with, amongst others:
- MediaWiki
- Twiki
- FosWiki
CRM systems
- SugarCRM
- Proprietary / Legacy systems
Knowledge Management
- Confluence
- Mindtouch
Consulting
For SME businesses or multi-national companies, schools or organisations, we are here to help you get the most out of Knowledge Management.
Get in touch with us if you are about to explore the vast array of knowledge management and need guidance on the challenge.
- KM systems implementations
- RFP and selection for projects
- Shortlisting of suppliers
- Project Management
- Installation and maintenance
- Database migration
- Database cleansing
- Data housekeeping
