Identify knowledge needs and gaps, limit knowledge loss and share your existing knowledge in your projects or organisation
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Do you want to...
- Identify all the knowledge you need in your team, project or organisation?
- Understand the different types of knowledge that have value in different settings and contexts?
- Know where to find this knowledge, even if it’s in your organisation?
- Identify and reach the many disciplines, sectors and roles that might be working on similar areas to you, but in different ways or from a different angle and learn from them?
- Effectively, efficiently and strategically broker, exchange and translate knowledge for use in policies, programs and services?
Responding to complex policy challenges or developing programs, initiatives and services in complex settings requires drawing on a wide range and scope of knowledge. Knowledge is a valuable resource produced by people through inquiry or experience and gained in many ways and contexts. However, knowledge tends to exist in localized pockets, which limits its full potential and benefit.
The benefits of our support
How we support you
Knowledge needs and gaps
What we do
- We complete a knowledge (all types of) needs analysis for you.
- We complete a knowledge (all types of) gap analysis for you.
- We identify and present the various disciplines, sectors, roles and in many cases individuals who may be of value to your project.
Outcome
- Understand the extent and value of knowledge within your and others organisations
- Increased innovation and creativity.
Knowledge strategies
What we do
- We identify, adapt or develop mechanisms and pathways focused on active knowledge exchange from which to move knowledge between domains, sectors, teams and organisations and groups.
- Create bridges for collaboration and co-production.
- Develop activities and mechanisms for knowledge exchange and co-production.
- Introduce a range of concepts, tools and methods to support you and your organisation to develop strategies and initiatives to support the identification, retainment and movement of knowledge within your project or organisation.
Outcome
- Build capacity to respond to complex challenges.
- Translate evidence and legislation into policies, programs and operational blueprints.
- Effective mechanisms and pathways either identified, adapted or developed for continual active knowledge exchange.
- Maximise knowledge and communication structures for better policy and program development, service delivery and governance.
Knowledge retention
What we do
- Knowledge retention – Identify threats to knowledge loss; assess current knowledge retention initiatives and develop knowledge retention strategies and initiatives.
Outcome
- Limit corporate knowledge loss.
Frequently asked questions
Yes, we have found that teams tasked with developing knowledge strategies tend to be overwhelmed by the scale of the process and how to align a knowledge strategy to other existing operational documents and remits.
We are able to support you because we have the tools, concepts and resources from which to develop a process that is tailored to your needs, efficiently utilizes the resources you have and provides you with a number of strategies from which to put into action your knowledge strategy objectives.
Generally no, we do not focus on traditional knowledge management rather we look at existing mechanisms for knowledge transfer and exchange and either adapt these or develop new ones (co-designed with you) which fit into your organisations/divisions/team functioning.
From our experience we can safely say that most existing mechanisms for knowledge sharing are based on passive knowledge transfer, we focus on active knowledge exchange – right knowledge at the right time to the right people that actually addresses the knowledge needs and gaps both identified and potential and as a basis of efficiency and effectiveness as well as creativity and innovation. No talk fests.
Yes, externally is a lot easier, internally is a lot harder due to strongly embedded processes and cultures found within organisations.
It depends, but what we have found is that organisations when trying to complete this work themselves take roughly four-six times longer than we would when asked to complete a contracted piece of work for a client. This is due to the client not being familiar with the processes, tools and concepts needed to undertake such work and not having a clear process mapped out.
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