KMTALK ASIA

I was waiting at the Singapore Consulate, for the visa application. KM Asia 2009 is the target. While checking out some brochures on Singapore, my eyes got stuck on the wall. An A-4 size paper pasted on the wall, with a story written on it. “There is this businessman from Macca, who wants to travel […]

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NASA once again shows how aggressive they are in terms of adopting to new tools and technologies. As one of the best practice KM organizations, NASA now launched their own facebook, called, Spacebook! I wrote about using Facebook as an Enterprise 2.0 tool in August 2008 here.

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It was the first time we had Patrick Lambe & Edgar Tan in Saudi Arabia. They missed the previous schedule as getting Saudi visa is not that simple. However, we managed to get the visa this time and we had an enlightening workshop in our organization. 22 of us joined the 3-day workshop, focusing on […]

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Murni Shariff is a KM Manager attached to Group Technology Solution of PETRONAS, the National Oil Company of Malaysia. She has been working with PETRONAS for more than 18 years in the area of Information Technology, Business Process management and Knowledge Management. KMTALK recently discussed with Murni on the Knowledge Management programs in PETRONAS.

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Dr. Muhammad Yunus, the Nobel Peace prize winner in 2006 delivered a speech yesterday at our organization on his new book on Social Business- Creating a World without Poverty. He shared his experiences on how Grameen Bank of Bangladesh helped women in the villages and reduces poverty in the country. Dr. Yunus said, at the […]

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We always come across passing this statement: People don’t leave the organization, they leave their managers. While this adage has somewhat truth in it, how many managers realized this or try to understand the situation that they are at fault rather than listing out other possibilities? 
Many managers still failed to understand that being a manager […]

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The process of managing knowledge or KM as we usually call it, might not be praised as the next big thing anymore. Many are questioning for its extinction (soon) and what’s next ‘best thing’. But, we are aware too, that do not expect it (the KM) to be downgraded to junk status. In fact, many […]

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Recently, I got a chance to watch two interesting documentaries on the Discovery Channel, ‘Takeoff: The A380 Saga’ and ‘Human Marvel: Okinawa Churaumi Aquarium’.  
The A380 was a story of Airbus, building the world’s largest commercial airplane in the world, weighing 560 tonnes, double decked, with a capacity to carry 837 passengers at one time. […]

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A month back we had some visitors from tow big GLCs in Malaysia. They came to our office to learn about how we are approaching KM. We prepared the presentation in such a way that 70% of the time we would talk about KM processes, peopple, culture and 30% time we will showcase our KM […]

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This is an wonderful storytelling by Andy Boyd on how Shell started its KM journey by focusing on building communities. The story was published in Inside Knowledge, few years back.
From the article- “KM still seems be tool driven in many companies. From the benchmarking we’ve done it’s clear that most of the players who excel […]

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