Knowledge Management in Organizations - Managing in the Knowledge Era

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Yigal Chamish
Guiding to successful results
Knowledge Management:
Managing in the Knowledge
Era
February 2011

Yigal Chamish
Shalom!

Yigal Chamish
Short ‘History’
• A graduate of Bezeq College, Jerusalem 1970-
1975
• Army service - Telecommunication force 1975-1980
• 25 years of service:
– Ministry of communication 1980-1984
– Bezeq 1984-2004
• Role: Knowledge manager at Bezeq, The Israel
Telecom Corporation, E&P Division 1999-2004
• Retired from Bezeq – Oct. 2004
• BA Political Science, MA Business Administration

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What I do
• Management Consultant, lecturer and
researcher
• Help organisations to initiate, maintain and
implement Organisational Learning and
Knowledge Management processes and
programs aimed to increase effectiveness
• Specialized in Organizational effectiveness
and Capacity building, Knowledge
Management and Organizational Learning,
Web 2.0, Social Media and Social
Networks

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In regards of KM & OL
• Privileged to be amongst the very first
Knowledge Managers in Israel
• Establish, initiate and lead the ‘Israeli
Knowledge Management Forum’
2001-2010
– Today: Leads the “KM Body of
Knowledge and Methodology” team
• Well networked with the International
community of Knowledge
Management

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10 insights (you should know) on Knowledge
management
• KM is not about managing
Knowledge but rather
Managing in the Knowledge
Era
• Knowledge Management is
not a 'system‘
• Knowledge Management is
very hard to 'see' or to
demonstrate
• Know, Tell, Write
• 'Get to the point' Vs. Instant
• Knowledge is not an "It“
• Knowledge is for 'action',
not (only) for 'storage‘
• "You can
'get' Knowledge from
'knowers' – nicely, not with
power…“
• Knowledge Management
Statistics
is 'qualitative' rather
than 'quantitative‘
• Assist, enable and
encourage experts to meet
and talk – don’t force or
order them to do it…

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(If you really want to succeed in KM…)
Do not mention the two
words 'Knowledge Management'
within the organization…..

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What we will talk about today
• Knowledge management & Organizational learning
– What is it?
– What it is not…
• KM & OL programs in Israel and abroad
• Personal Knowledge Management
– Why it starts here
• Organizational Knowledge Challenges for HR
leaders
• Knowledge sharing: examples, tips and tricks

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Knowledge Management
• Wikipedia: “Knowledge management (KM) comprises a
range of strategies and practices used in an
organisation 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 organisational
processes or practice.”
• Culture
• Processes
• Infrastructures
• It’s about Management
• It’s about Management in the Knowledge
Era

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• What the
organization
produces:
– Products
– Services
– Projects
– “Bottom lines”
• Knowledge
“products”
• How the
organization
produces:
– Processes
– Procedures
– Tools
– People (Culture)
• Knowledge
Management

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Knowledge Management – A Framework
in organizations
Core Processes
Supportive
Infrastructure Culture
Personal
Organizational
• Desktop Filing, Navigation,
Search
• RSS
• Online presence management
• Organizational Filing, Navigation,
Search
• Communities, Forums
• Content Management, Portals, Wiki

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Dave Snowden, September 2009
The purpose of Knowledge Management
• to provide support for improved
decision making and innovation
throughout the organization.
• This is achieved through the effective
management of human intuition and
experience augmented by the provision of
information, processes and technology
together with training and mentoring
programmes.

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Knowledge Management…

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Knowledge
Don’t know Know
Knowledge you
know that you don’t
know
(Known gaps)
Knowledge you
know that you know
(Tacit
knowledge)
Know
Knowledge you
don’t know that you
don’t know
)Unknown gaps)
Knowledge you
don’t know that you
know
(Explicit
knowledge)
Don’t
know

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•Organizational Culture
•Core processes
•Supportive
Infrastructures

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Data, Information, Knowledge
•43
•43 degrees Celsius
•Hot or cold
•Eilat?!

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Knowledge is for action
Not (only) for silos…

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Dave Snowden, , September 2009
The following guiding principles will be applied
• All projects will be clearly linked to operational and
strategic goals
• As far as possible the approach adopted will be to
stimulate local activity rather than impose central
solutions
• Co-ordination and distribution of learning will focus
on allowing adaptation of good practice to the local
context
• Management of the KM function will be based on a
small centralized core, with a wider distributed
network

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Dave Snowden
Seven principles about Knowledge Mnagamenet
• Knowledge can only be volunteered, it cannot be
conscripted
• We only know what we know when we need to know it
• In the context of real need few people will withhold their
knowledge
• Everything is fragmented
• Tolerated failure imprints learning better than success
• The way we know things is not the way we report we
know things
• We always know more than we can say, and we will
always say more than we can write down

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The business
environment,
today

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The Business Environment Today

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Leading the market > Knowledge
• No longer an individual asset
• Dynamic, Diffused, Developed
• Innovative
• Must be integrated and formulated
together
• Knowledge: Professionals collaborative
deliverable

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“…knowledge is
profoundly social…”
Larry Prusak,
19.11.2004,Tel-Aviv

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What managers face today?
Leading clever people

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Leading Clever People

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“Clever People”
• They know their worth
• They are organizationally savvy
• They ignore corporate hierarchy
• They expect instant access
• They are well connected
• They have a low boredom
threshold
• They won’t thank you….

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How we learn in the knowledge era?
How we learn?
• Create learning
environment that
enable, nurture,
respect learning,
knowledge,
experts and
learners
Knowledge Era
• Many experts
• Global
• Flatten hierarchies
• Asynchrony

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Tom Friedman
The World is Flat, 2005
Politicians have to work at educating
people on the new, flat world and what
they need to thrive in it. We need
leaders willing to inspire and explain.
Workers will need to become more
responsible for managing their own
careers, risks and economic security
and government must help them build
the necessary muscles to do that.

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From tacit to Explicit
• We always know, more that we can
tell (Michael Poalnyi)
• and we always tell more that we can
write down (Dave Snowden)
–Know
–Tell
–Write

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Generic Framework
and Guide Lines
for KM Program

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Generic KM Program
Guide Lines & Framework
• The Organization
– Main business, structure
• The Core Process
– The process, its ingredients, main
entities, relations
• The Organizational Need
– What is it? How it supports the process?

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Generic KM Program
Guide Lines & Framework
• The Knowledge Challenges
– “Positive”: saturation of knowledge, sources,
– “Negative”: Lack of knowledge, outdated
knowledge, non-comprehensive knowledge….
– Supportive and disruptive forces
• The KM & OL Program
– Vision, Targets & Goals, Objectives, main
activities, barriers and supportive forces

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Tips and lesson learned
• Think globally, act locally
• Focus, they are watching you…
• Choose (ONLY) one for start: Process, Project,
Issue,
• Success oriented
• Continuously facilitate, monitor, engage,
encourage, act, nurture
• Remember: It’s about people (and their knowledge)
…not about knowledge (regardless the people…)

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A Story on an Executive,
Management
and Knowledge
Awassa, Ethiopia
June 2007
The story

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The organizational need

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Creating new knowledge together

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Knowledge community
)Community of practice(

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Bezeq
The Israel telecom Corp.
A Story

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Summary
• Knowledge is social
• Knowledge must be nurtured in social
interactions between experts
• Social interactions form knowledge
networks
• Knowledge networks can be virtual or
face-to-face
• Executives should act as facilitators for the
necessary culture, processes and
infrastructure

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References list
• “Where did knowledge management
come from?”, Prusak, L.
• “Rendering knowledge”, Snowden, D.
• “Knowledge Management in
Organizations – What do we know
today?”, Chamish, Y.
• “Leading clever people”, Goffee & Jones

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Thank you and good luck!
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