Rebooting KM with Purposeful Collaboration #ArkKM

Title: Rebooting KM with Purposeful Collaboration, Silo-Busters, and Ambient Knowledge

Speaker: Stuart Barr, Chief Strategy Office, HighQ

Session Description: Traditional KM has focused on accumulating and organizing knowledge that you know people need and trying to make sure it’s available when they need it. But what about what is known but not documented? Or the knowledge trapped in silos that are completely unstructured and inaccessible? In this session, Stuart Barr will explore how to break down traditional barriers to knowledge sharing, capture knowledge as people get their work done and automate knowledge extraction to drive new insight from your historical data.

[These are my notes from the 2016 Ark Group Conference: Knowledge Management in the Legal Profession.  Since I’m publishing them as soon as possible after the end of a session, they may contain the occasional typographical or grammatical error.  Please excuse those. To the extent I’ve made any editorial comments, I’ve shown those in brackets.]

NOTES:

• Traditional Approaches to KM
  • Collecting knowledge
  • Connecting that knowledge to people
  • Tying that knowledge to the organization’s productivity systems
  • Automating knowledge systems

• Challenges to Traditional Approaches to KM
  • They usually are manual processes
  • They are siloed — both the repositories are siloed and the processes are siloed
  • They often are concentrated on “known knowns” — mainly the obvious knowledge is “hunted down and captured.”
  • People are not always motivated to contribute
  • You need to connect the knowledge to people more effectively
    • connect with experts
    • enable people so they can ask their questions in the open — this openness spreads knowledge and emboldens people to ask the questions they might have been afraid of asking.
  • We are stuck in very old ways of work = Ineffective Collaboration
    • Email is a massive “Black Hole” of knowledge. It is where knowledge goes to die.
    • Most firms have not found a way to collaborate. They do not realize that email was not designed for true collaboration.

• Why is Social Collaboration Useful?
  • Assuming it is implemented correctly, it can provide a “peripheral vision” or “ambient awareness” of what is happening within an organization. This makes a knowledge worker much more plugged in and effective.
  • It provides passive access to information (e.g., the activity stream, group conversations, etc.)
  • It also enables active collaboration (e.g., shared workspaces)
  • It helps people share information actively, for example, by @ mentioning someone to draw their attention to an issue or to specific content.

• Digital Transformation can drive KM. That said, KM should be at the heart of your digital transformation strategy. When done properly, digital transformation changes the way people connect, communicate and work.

• What comes next?
  • Analyzing the data that are captured through your knowledge tools and social collaboration tools.
  • Coupled with machine learning, you can understand what content is important. In fact, you could provide digital assistants that can help knowledge workers find the content they need.
• Conclusion
  • We need to keep doing traditional KM
  • But we also need to use more social ways of
  • We need to connect our systems of record to our systems of engagement
  • Collect and analyze the data about our work behaviors so we can make our systems and processes better
  • Use machine learning & AI to take these insights and enable digital assistance at the point of need
• Audience Discussion:
  • How social collaboration helps strengthen law firm information security:
    • Meredith Williams (CKO, Baker Donnelson) noted that phishing is one of the biggest information security vulnerabilities for law firms. Often the dangerous emails masquerade as internal emails. (She estimated that 20% of emails are purely internal.) If you move those internal conversations into a social platform, you reduce the number of emails that can be used for phishing schemes.

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