KM Impact Challenge

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Comment by Simon Koolwijk on January 31, 2013 at 8:58am

Hello Colleagues, I am just new to this group.  In about 4 weeks I will be conducting an evaluation in a country, where the government has introduced e-learning at primary and secondary schools.  I am looking for examples/ links/ publications or videos of some best practices and lessons learned where e-learning was introduced nation wide through the Ministry of Education. What factors did it make to a success? What were key strategies that worked? And what did not work?  I am looking forward for some responses.

Comment by Benjamin on September 6, 2012 at 7:33am

Hi guys, I am a student at the university of Botswana and would like to learn about applied knowledge management.

Comment by syalomi natalia on May 5, 2011 at 10:46pm

hi guys, AusAID AIPD in NTT-Indonesia is looking for a Knowledge Management Consultant to develop their KM Strategy, anyone interested? or any recommendation? please send your interest /recommendation to syalomi.natalia@aipd.or.id
Very many thanks, Syalomi Natalia (Omi)

Comment by Jeffrey Kwaterski on December 6, 2010 at 5:38pm

John--a thought provoking post. Locating where you / your organization is on the problem-solving continuum seems like a critical step to ensure that one selects appropriate measures and assessment approaches to look for KM impact.

Comment by John Gaynard on December 6, 2010 at 4:52pm

A few months ago I posted an article on my blog about Knowledge Management being alive and kicking. It told of my private sector experience and experience I had with the World Bank. I am not applying for the prize, but I hope that in posting an excerpt from the blog post I can give some idea of what impact can be produced by KM.

Excerpt:

People say give us "real life examples" of where KM has worked. My first real life examples came when I worked at the World Bank, putting in place a low-cost internal telecommunications (voice and data) network in Africa and Eastern Europe at the end of the 1980s, beginning of the 1990s. Some people with foresight at the Bank like Harinder Kohli and Gus (August) Schumacher realized that the then nascent system of email (which many sceptics had, of course, said would never work) could be opened up to the Bank's customers and used to network and coordinate the Polish ministries and the ministries of many other countries to exchange and better codify their knowledge. The pay off from this was immediate. For example, Gus, sitting in Washington but sharing knowledge and advising his counterparts in Poland every day, managed to get the approval time for a vital $600 million agricultural project for Poland down from about eighteen months (in the best of cases) to six months. How do you estimate the value of putting $600 million dollars to work 12 months early? Even if you are only talking about a 5% return on investment (and in Poland's case it was much more than that) you are talking about $30 million dollars. Compound that initial 5% over 10 years and you are talking real money.

That money was an important factor in getting the Polish economy kick started after the fall of the communist system. There were so many other examples of success from email and the new network, all over the world, that it would be impossible to count them. The tools have changed. Now we talk about wikis, blogs, knowledge mapping and business model innovation instead of email, but the principles of helping people to share existing knowledge and create new knowledge have not changed, only improved.

You can read the whole blog post at:
http://johngaynardcreativity.blogspot.com/2010/02/knowledge-managem...

Comment by Norma Garza on December 2, 2010 at 10:44am

Hi Jaap, thanks for your help getting us started. Yes I am aware of that function. We are using KM4Dev dgroups for discussions and using the list to let people know about the KM Impact Challenge. First message went out yesterday :)

Comment by Jaap Pels on December 2, 2010 at 7:10am

Norma,
Have you seen you can manage group members?
You can invite people and you should advocate on the KM4Dev list I guess :-)
Best, Jaap

Comment by Norma Garza on December 1, 2010 at 7:49pm

Hi Tom,
Thanks for your comment. We will be publicly launching the KM Impact Challenge very shortly with the support of KM4Dev and look forward to getting as many people engaged and excited to participate in this discovery process. I hope you can join us!

Comment by Tom Zeppenfeldt on December 1, 2010 at 5:54pm

Great idea.. lots of people looking for good indicators for success or failure of KM initiatives and/or platforms