KMTALK ASIA

When consultants talk about KM or propose a solution for organizations to improve profit margin by practicing KM correctly, the whole vision of the activities laid up for all staff to participate scares top management away. This is what I have encountered last year, for all KM practitioners who have the same experience, do buckle up […]

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I was having a conversation with a well renowned columnist, writer, TV presenter, activist  and coordinator of ‘Reading Books’ campaign in Bangladesh during my last visit to Dhaka.  He is in his 70s and still very passionate about learning and growth. He was telling me about the new building that his organization (Bissho-shahittro Kendro) is constructing […]

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Are KM people worth more during this time of world crisis? Some people say that it is the time when we are needed the most to tap tacit knowledge of those people leaving organizations as a result of retrenchment & downsizing. But then question arised, are those people who are retrenched willing to share their […]

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A better user acceptance and understanding can be achieved if you can add your personal stories in the presentation. That’s reflected in this article published by Businessweek recently.
Few lines from the article:
“… presenters most of the time are afraid of opening themselves up in a business context. Second, many deliver presentations created by folks with whom […]

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Kiran Shah, from the Asian Storytelling Network enlightened us yesterday with her fascinating skills in telling stories. It was a tea-talk at the Petroleum Club that inspired us to start sharing our personal stories with colleagues even after the session was over. Kiran mesmerized the audience with her opening story- the tone of a speaker […]

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..so the conversation themselves have so far been interesting with mixture between intellectually fun with the odd practical tidbit thrown in..
There were more than 10 people sitting at the long table. My seat was just right behind them. A man in suit, he was loud and fun and creative. He mentioned something about sailing with […]

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Hi.
I got this interesting top tips from actKm yahoogroup listing. The entry was given by Cory Banks, KM Specialist at Suncorp, Australia:
Today a friend of mine (non-KM person) ask me the following question through facebook:
*If you had to give your top ten tips on the best strategies for knowledge management in an organisation, what would […]

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By Izuzi Marlia
I’ve promised Prof. Wood and Naguib to write on “Storytelling & KM” sharing session that we had with Abdul Halim from Nanyang Institute of Singapore last month.  I have kept postponing until today as it happens I’m facing problem with the network connection at my office..Technology-dependent huh?
To start with - storytelling is the […]

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The time was the late sixties. The place was the University of Malaya, Faculty of Engineering. The engineering degree in UM then was a killer. Every year the lists of students having to refer subjects were long. Three students, one from VI KL, another from PFS Penang and the last one from ACS Ipoh got […]

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