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Foreword............................................................................................................................XI
Part One: Are you losing your minds? The challenge of knowledge loss
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Contents
Part Two: Driving value from knowledge: The practical knowledge management guide
Introduction...................................................................................................................... 49
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Losing Your Minds: Capturing, Retaining and Leveraging Organizational Knowledge
Index.............................................................................................................................. 123
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Executive summary
You are losing your minds... really… and This report shares and illustrates
you need to do something about it right now! concepts, strategies, and practices that can
Rapidly-shifting operational and create the attention necessary to shape
performance goals driven by change in an and support knowledge and collaborative
organization’s operating environment are learning efforts in your organization,
part of the evolution of any present day whether it be a public or private sector
public or private sector organization. This organization. In those cases where there are
change presents you and your organization unique differences between the two sectors
with multi-dimensional risks to your ability and how they perceive, understand, and
to adapt and to successfully operate ‘faster address this challenge, the differences will be
than the speed of that change.’ highlighted to provide a broader perspective.
One of the risks organizations in both This book will share strategies that bridge
the public and private sectors face is the knowledge gaps that can impede innovation
constant threat of knowledge loss due to the and performance improvement while (1)
turnover in their workforce. The ability of enhancing the necessary behavior change in
your organization to successfully anticipate the short term and (2) building an effective
and to manage the risk of knowledge foundation for sustainable implementation
loss due to workforce turnover often will of effective practices for capturing, retaining,
determine how successfully your organization and reusing the critical and relevant
can address the other multi-dimensional risks knowledge of your organization.
facing you. This book is divided into three parts. Part
To mitigate these challenges and One focuses on the challenge of workforce
risks, organizations need a consistent, turnover and knowledge loss, introduces
disciplined, and sustainable framework some basic concepts to better understand
for capturing, adapting, transferring, and this knowledge management challenge,
reusing their relevant and critical knowledge. and then discusses how to approach this
It is a fundamental part of a successful challenge using a successful performing
succession planning and continuity of and learning framework for introducing
operations strategy. It’s about creating a and then implementing context relevant
high performing and knowledge enabled knowledge management solutions within the
organization that can effectively deal organization. Part Two provides a practical
with and operate faster than the speed of guide to implementing this framework,
change, drive superior and measurable outlining three key methodologies and
performance, and deliver value to its explaining in detail how to plan and
customers, to its workforce, and to the carry out the relevant activities. Part Three
organization itself. comprises two in-depth case studies of
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