Comments on: What’s My Line? http://aboveandbeyondkm.com/2009/03/whats-my-line.html A discussion of knowledge management that goes above and beyond technology. Thu, 10 May 2012 17:45:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: VMaryAbraham http://aboveandbeyondkm.com/2009/03/whats-my-line.html/comment-page-1#comment-1524 VMaryAbraham Sun, 08 Mar 2009 06:35:29 +0000 http://aboveandbeyondkm.com/?p=667#comment-1524 That's exactly right, Marnix!<br><br>- Mary That's exactly right, Marnix!

- Mary

]]> By: VMaryAbraham http://aboveandbeyondkm.com/2009/03/whats-my-line.html/comment-page-1#comment-1525 VMaryAbraham Sun, 08 Mar 2009 06:29:53 +0000 http://aboveandbeyondkm.com/?p=667#comment-1525 I take your point, Nick. However, my experience has been that in law firms there's lots of demand for knowledge/information. We tend to start by asking if someone has done this before. (Chalk it up to our love of precedent.) Couple that with the human tendency to avoid work and we find we don't have a demand problem. The real problem is on the supply side: people don't always realize that the content they have could be very useful to someone else. That's why I focus on knowledge sharing.<br><br>Is this atypical in your experience?<br><br>- Mary I take your point, Nick. However, my experience has been that in law firms there's lots of demand for knowledge/information. We tend to start by asking if someone has done this before. (Chalk it up to our love of precedent.) Couple that with the human tendency to avoid work and we find we don't have a demand problem. The real problem is on the supply side: people don't always realize that the content they have could be very useful to someone else. That's why I focus on knowledge sharing.

Is this atypical in your experience?

- Mary

]]> By: VMaryAbraham http://aboveandbeyondkm.com/2009/03/whats-my-line.html/comment-page-1#comment-567 VMaryAbraham Sun, 08 Mar 2009 01:35:29 +0000 http://aboveandbeyondkm.com/?p=667#comment-567 That's exactly right, Marnix!<br><br>- Mary That's exactly right, Marnix!

- Mary

]]> By: VMaryAbraham http://aboveandbeyondkm.com/2009/03/whats-my-line.html/comment-page-1#comment-566 VMaryAbraham Sun, 08 Mar 2009 01:29:53 +0000 http://aboveandbeyondkm.com/?p=667#comment-566 I take your point, Nick. However, my experience has been that in law firms there's lots of demand for knowledge/information. We tend to start by asking if someone has done this before. (Chalk it up to our love of precedent.) Couple that with the human tendency to avoid work and we find we don't have a demand problem. The real problem is on the supply side: people don't always realize that the content they have could be very useful to someone else. That's why I focus on knowledge sharing.<br><br>Is this atypical in your experience?<br><br>- Mary I take your point, Nick. However, my experience has been that in law firms there's lots of demand for knowledge/information. We tend to start by asking if someone has done this before. (Chalk it up to our love of precedent.) Couple that with the human tendency to avoid work and we find we don't have a demand problem. The real problem is on the supply side: people don't always realize that the content they have could be very useful to someone else. That's why I focus on knowledge sharing.

Is this atypical in your experience?

- Mary

]]> By: marnix catteeuw http://aboveandbeyondkm.com/2009/03/whats-my-line.html/comment-page-1#comment-565 marnix catteeuw Sat, 07 Mar 2009 13:37:27 +0000 http://aboveandbeyondkm.com/?p=667#comment-565 I usually say I help people to not make the same mistake twice.<br><br>marnix I usually say I help people to not make the same mistake twice.

marnix

]]> By: nick milton http://aboveandbeyondkm.com/2009/03/whats-my-line.html/comment-page-1#comment-564 nick milton Sat, 07 Mar 2009 09:42:52 +0000 http://aboveandbeyondkm.com/?p=667#comment-564 Hi Mary. I love your blog, but feel I need to challenge one point.<br><br>you say your role is "Create an environment that fosters knowledge sharing".<br><br>I would suggest that even more important is to Create an environment that fosters knowledge seeking and re-use. Better to start with creating a demand, than with creating a supply. Demand will create supply, while vice versa is not always the case<br><br>See here for more thoughts<br><a href="http://www.nickmilton.com/2009/02/push-and-pull-in-knowledge-management.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.nickmilton.com/2009/02/push-and-pull...</a><br><a href="http://www.nickmilton.com/2009/03/knowledge-sharing-and-knowledge-seeking.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.nickmilton.com/2009/03/knowledge-sha...</a> Hi Mary. I love your blog, but feel I need to challenge one point.

you say your role is “Create an environment that fosters knowledge sharing”.

I would suggest that even more important is to Create an environment that fosters knowledge seeking and re-use. Better to start with creating a demand, than with creating a supply. Demand will create supply, while vice versa is not always the case

See here for more thoughts
http://www.nickmilton.com/2009/02/push-and-pull…
http://www.nickmilton.com/2009/03/knowledge-sha…

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