"I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do, and I understand."(Confucius) GuruScan organizes regular Open Experience events. If you are interested in improving your organization’s Knowledge Management, these are a great way to experience what GuruScan’s technology can do. This blog post gives you a little background on these sessions and a rough outline of the general program. Why...

As a pre-conference workshop to the KM World 2018 conference in Washington, I attended the Personal Knowledge Mastery (PKM) workshop by Harold Jarche and Catherine Shinners. Your personal network is your lifeline and your communication channel. Having an extensive and diverse personal network will help you promote your work, generate new ideas, and assess & improve your own work. (If you...

Knowledge is the most discriminating production factor of the 21st century. Individuals and companies alike should therefore be focused on their knowledge-driven added value in the marketplace. And this holds true, whatever your marketplace is. In human history, first, we were hunter-gatherers. We took what we could find, until we were satisfied or died of famine or disease. To overcome this...

Imagine a dictionary that is not ordered alphabetically…. You could perhaps use it to start a fire, but apart from that it would be quite useless unless its words are ordered alphabetically. All the information will be there, but it is extremely inaccessible. Imagine the frustration knowing that the definition of ‘inchoate’ is somewhere in the book, and you desperately need...

Knowledge is the most important production and performance factor for many companies. Strategic knowledge needs to be available redundantly to stay competitive. Redundancy can be achieved internally and/or externally. For a small electro-technical company, we made a knowledge network assessment. This assessment involved their 15 core knowledge domains. We used their collective knowledge network and visualized both internal and external experts....