Knowledge and Innovation Network

KIN Winter 2006 Workshop

'People - the soft or the hard side of Knowledge Management'                                                                    

The workshop explored some issues around the Human side of KM including looking at why it is that some people in organisations are natural 'knowledge workers' who share their expertise and experiences freely, whilst others tend to keep information to themselves. We also explored the areas of human behaviours, cognitive neuroscience and organisational culture to help us to understand how knowledge workers can maximise the value of the knowledge held within the organisations' human capital and how to help it to flow...