Content about Knowledge management

October 7, 2011
Best Practices: After You Train, Retain

Companies increasingly are moving toward the implementation of robust knowledge management systems to collect and share existing information. The truly effective systems improve an organization’s ability to take full advantage of the knowledge and experiences of its employees and make it easily accessible to the entire organization at any time.

By Neal Goodman, Ph.D., President, Global Dynamics, Inc.

All too often, companies invest in the professional development of their workforce only to lose that investment after employees leave (or when they simply forget what they learned). According to Ernst & Young, 44 percent of employees are “poor or very poor” at transferring knowledge.

October 7, 2011
Best Practices: After You Train, Retain

Companies increasingly are moving toward the implementation of robust knowledge management systems to collect and share existing information. The truly effective systems improve an organization’s ability to take full advantage of the knowledge and experiences of its employees and make it easily accessible to the entire organization at any time.

By Neal Goodman, Ph.D., President, Global Dynamics, Inc.

All too often, companies invest in the professional development of their workforce only to lose that investment after employees leave (or when they simply forget what they learned). According to Ernst & Young, 44 percent of employees are “poor or very poor” at transferring knowledge.

October 7, 2011
Dawn of the Social Cyborg

Think of the Social Cyborg as a human-computer hybrid that belongs to a socially networked hive. Then think about the implications for talent development of this new species in the workforce.

By Joe Campbell, Director of Global Talent Development, Nike Retail, and William Finegan, VP, Knowledge Management Solutions, General Physics Corporation, written exclusively for Trainingmagazine

October 1, 2010
Netting Know-How

More companies are catching on to the need to capture the knowledge of outgoing employees before they walk out the door. But with the help of technology, and traditional mentoring, organizations are learning ways to spare remaining workers the task of reinventing the corporate wheel.

By Margery Weinstein

January 1, 2001
TRAINING TODAY: Knowledge Management: Digital Age Decision-Making

If conducting "business at the speed of thought" has left you feeling as though your "business" is getting away from you, you're not alone. According to a recent survey on quality decision-making by Kepner-Tregoe, Princeton, N.J., today's employees are being asked to make more decisions than ever before, but in less time?at the expense of quality, productivity and customer service.

If conducting "business at the speed of thought" has left you feeling as though your "business" is getting away from you, you're not alone. According to a recent survey on quality decision-making by Kepner-Tregoe (KT), Princeton, N.J., today's employees are being asked to make more decisions than ever before, but in less time?at the expense of quality, productivity and customer service.