In this podcast, APQC principal research leads Lauren Trees and Holly Lyke-Ho-Gland talk about the research project they just wrapped, Managing Project Knowledge. The conversation focused on what Trees and Lyke-Ho-Gland see as the key takeaways for knowledge and project managers, including:

• the wide array of approaches that BAE Systems, NASA, Fujitsu, Volvo, and others use to ensure that project teams capture, share and reuse relevant knowledge;
• strategies to encourage collegiality and collaboration among project teams; and
• ways to get busy project managers to participate in KM activities

Remember to follow APQC on Twitter @apqc!

In this podcast, APQC CEO Carla O’Dell and KM Principal Research Lead Lauren Trees talk about ways to improve collaboration and build trusted relationships in the virtual sphere. The first segment focuses on recent decisions by several large companies to limit or eliminate virtual work in an effort to boost collaboration. O’Dell and Trees delve into the thinking behind these policies , why so many organizations struggle with virtual collaboration, and what can be done about it. In the second segment, O’Dell and Trees discuss a recent APQC webinar by Alok Gupta, data science manager at Airbnb, and how the strategies for building trust in the peer-to-peer economy can be applied to enterprise knowledge sharing.

Remember to follow APQC on Twitter @apqc!

APQC CEO Carla O'Dell spoke with Cal Newport as part of the "Big Thinkers, Big Ideas" interview series. The bestselling author of Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World, Newport is an assistant professor at George Washington University and the author of numerous bestselling titles. He spoke with O'Dell about "deep work" and the need to balance collaboration with private space to focus in the face of many distractors.

Remember to follow APQC on Twitter @apqc!

APQC research has shown that one of the biggest mistakes that KM programs make is not identifying and systematically addressing the obstacles that block employees from contributing, accessing, and reusing knowledge. The research has found the first step in developing an effective KM change management strategy is recognizing those barriers. In 2013, APQC partnered with its KM advanced workshop to identify ten barriers to enterprise knowledge sharing. Over a series of KM podcasts, all ten of these barriers will be addressed. On this podcast, APQC executive director Cindy Hubert and KM research program manager Lauren Trees address the barrier of culture.

Remember to follow APQC on Twitter @apqc!

Organizations have masses of knowledge associated with their business processes. Some of this comes in the form of documents—everything from standard operating procedures and training materials to tips and lessons learned from past project teams—but other knowledge exists only in the heads of employees who design, own, and execute the processes every day.

On June 29, 2016, APQC’s Lauren Trees and Holly Lyke-Ho-Gland conducted a webinar on how to tie knowledge to process and follow-on Q&A podcast on the role of knowledge in process management. This podcast addresses some of the questions posed during the webinar.

Remember to follow APQC on Twitter @apqc!

APQC research has shown that one of the biggest mistakes that KM programs make is not identifying and systematically addressing the obstacles that block employees from contributing, accessing, and reusing knowledge. The research has found the first step in developing an effective KM change management strategy is recognizing those barriers. In 2013, APQC partnered with its KM advanced workshop to identify ten barriers to enterprise knowledge sharing. Over a series of KM podcasts, all ten of these barriers will be addressed.On this podcast, APQC executive director Cindy Hubert and KM research program manager Lauren Trees address the barrier of time.

Remember to follow APQC on Twitter @apqc!

APQC research has shown that one of the biggest mistakes that KM programs make is not identifying and systematically addressing the obstacles that block employees from contributing, accessing, and reusing knowledge. The research has found the first step in developing an effective KM change management strategy is recognizing those barriers. In 2013, APQC partnered with its KM advanced workshop to identify ten barriers to enterprise knowledge sharing. Over a series of KM podcasts, all ten of these barriers will be addressed.On this podcast, APQC executive director Cindy Hubert and KM research program manager Lauren Trees address the barrier of awareness.

Remember to follow APQC on Twitter @apqc!

APQC CEO Carla O’Dell recently talked with Stuart Frankel as part of the Big Thinkers, Big Ideas interview series. Frankel is the CEO and a co-founder of Narrative Science, a Chicago-based technology company that is a leader in advanced natural language generation (NLG), which turns data into a text story about the data. Frankel shared with O’Dell details around NLG and data storytelling, and its importance in the KM space.

Remember to follow APQC on Twitter @apqc!

Eighty-nine percent of respondents to an APQC survey said their organizations use mentoring to help employees develop skills and competencies. They also ranked mentoring among the top two approaches to accelerate learning and development, with 59 percent rating it as effective or very effective. In this podcast, research program managers Elissa Tucker and Lauren Trees address audience questions from their March 2016 joint KM/HCM webinar “Workplace Mentoring for Technical and Nontechnical Audiences.

Remember to follow APQC on Twitter @apqc!

APQC CEO Carla O’Dell talked with Louis Richardson as part of the “Big Thinkers, Big Ideas” interview series. An IBM storyteller and enthusiast, Richardson meets with clients and partners worldwide and shares how “social smarter work” can deliver real business results. With more than 30 years of experience in the collaboration and document management industry, he has served in sales, support, consulting, and document production management positions. From this perspective, Richardson shared with O’Dell how he has seen knowledge and information management approaches change, and most rapidly in the past several years.

Remember to follow us on Twitter @apqc!