APQC Podcasts

Knowledge Management: Mining the knowledge of SpaceX and NASA

APQC CEO Dr. Carla O'Dell interviewed Ed Hoffman, Chief Knowledge Officer at NASA. Their conversation took unexpected turns: it ranged from why fear is needed if you want big change to what a CKO does in NASA (and how to discover the critical 5% of knowledge that matters) to what happens when the cowboy culture of Elon Musk’s SpaceX collides with a perfectionist culture like NASA’s.

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Alex Pentland, head of the Human Dynamics Laboratory at MIT Media Lab

APQC CEO,Dr. Carla O'Dell, interviewed Alex Pentland, head of the Human Dynamics Laboratory at the MIT Media Lab and keynote speaker on May 1, 2015 at APQC’s KM Conference.  He and his team have collected data, using RFID badges, on hundreds of thousands of interactions between people in companies and governments. They have found that the greater the flow of ideas within a group, the more productive it is.  That makes sense, right? Sharing good ideas and best practices rapidly, as well as harvesting the best ideas from a diverse group of people, should lead to improvement if the conditions are right.

Dr. David Eagleman Talks About Tacit Knowledge & How We Learn

APQC CEO, Dr. Carla O'Dell, recently interviewed Dr. David Eagleman, New York Times Best Selling Author and neuroscientist, as part of APQC’s Big Thinkers, Big Ideas series on tacit knowledge, how we learn, and why getting off autopilot is good for your brain and for your organization.

One of the Grandfathers Of KM, Bob Buckman, talks about need for rapid response

Bob Buckman has been leading the charge to share knowledge since he was CEO of Buckman Laboratories. APQC CEO, Dr. Carla O'Dell, interviewed him recently for APQC's Big Thinkers, Big Ideas series, and noticed the reason executives want knowledge sharing to work hasn’t changed much with time: the need for rapid response in the face of changing markets and customer expectations.