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Best Practices: People and Culture

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General best practices in the area of People and Culture include:
  • KM strategies are established to facilitate appropriate cultural changes
  • The success of cultural changes are tracked and measured on a routine basis
  • The organization is strongly aware of the need for knowledge for development
  • Staff is fully aware of the critical nature, relevance, and impact of KM
  • Senior management supports a program whereby every organization member receives orientation training in knowledge for development before starting work
  • Cultural enablers and barriers are identified, reviewed (with supporting evidence), and acted on by senior management
  • Senior management and HR support and measure ongoing KM training programs
  • Staff or external consultants skilled in KM are utilized to educate staff on KM principles and to relate KM to day-to-day work activities and processes
  • Information and knowledge silos are eliminated
  • Client/customer - focused views prevail (cross-departments)
  • Fragmentation is eliminated, knowledge and information separation is maintained under software control
  • Knowledge flows are mapped and redesigned within the knowledge for development framework addressing bottlenecks and dead-ends
  • Knowledge flows through to external stakeholders and business partners


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