What percentage of knowledge for business is like riding a bike? - Bart Verheijen: Guruscan

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• What is knowledge management?
  • Knowledge is a lot more than information
  • Information is content
  • Knowledge is explicit and implicit knowledge
  • Knowledge Management strategy
    • Shell
    • Connecting people to people,
    • Connecting people to content
    • Community of practice
    • Lessons learned, what did we do and how well did we do it?
    • Forward-looking thing: how can we integrate learning and development? Learn about where we want to go
  • This makes me excited to be a part of KM
  • Skills that are really hard to make explicit
  • Fingerspettein
  • Riding a bike, talk to someone about riding a bike
  • Keep on pedaling, look forward, and find your balance, these are all processes that can't be taught
  • You can’t read how to ride a bike
  • What percentage of knowledge for business is like riding a bike?
  • Specific use cases; a lot of research
    • 20% is explicit and 80% is actually stuff people are doing
    • Then not ending up in the final
    • 95% implicit in the particular case of tacit knowledge
  • Is the role
  • Thousands of people; how do you communicate with them
  • Complex environment and things are changing in
  • Solving complex problems is when you want to get people together
  • Prehistoric groups
    • There was cross-group and collaboration
    • Strangers interacting
    • 1-2 years now for
    • 10-15 years of experience as specialist
    • After a while, its interesting to hear how people have feelings about whether things are wrong
    • Intuition says something is wrong, and then finds the thing that is wrong
    • No textbook is going to tell you what is wrong
  • Concept is called Dunbar number, robert dunbar, British anthropologist
    • 150 people; the people with you can have a meaningful relationship
    • High school friends are replaced with work friends
    • Changes over time but the limit
    • Social grooming, what their parents are doing, what are they doing
    • If you want to expand you are not going to be
    • FDR had 44,000 people in
  • The level of leadership changes, and remote work
  • As a CEO of a 20K person company
  • Methods for
    • Organizational network analysis
    • Knowledge Map of the organization
    • Connect people with very similar of knowledge.
    • Find people to really like to exchange with
    • An idea is network
  • Bart is in Amsterdam
  • Not totally remote
  • Gitlab as an example
  • Remote work as asynchronous
  • Being able to work asynchronously in productive
    • Large organizations
      • Monday morning you have the standup
    • Large organizations in tons of synchronous meetings
    • Lockdowns the whole workspace
    • Feeling productive vs not feeling productive
    • Status report
    • Alignment and updating people
    • That's the big challenge
  • The furthest in Async first
  • Async needs to be changed
  • If you can’t have that meeting, what would you do?
  • Internal organization
    • A lot of people who make money running the organization
    • IIf you are up to 60 or 70 people because there is no overhead
    • If you need to arrange something you need to
    • Staff departments at 150
    • Institutional
  • Staff departments
  • Especially, growing the company as an incentive
  • How do you work smarter, not harder?
  • Our department
  • In organizations, the hard thing is to make sure that you don’t reduce complexity,
    • If you reduce the complexity
    • Requisite variety, adapt to all the changes that are coming from the outside of the world
    • Balance exploration and exploitation
    • If you don’t exploit then you don’t the money
    • Exploration is the future of the company
    • How much money, time, effort and people?
    • How much money should we invest in R&D?
    • Insane amounts of money
    • Every company should do in more exploration
    • Changing processes is usually not considered R&D
    • Changing your organization to better fit future
  • Political aspect
  • Produce 50 or 60% of all the semiconductors
  • Flat screens
  • LED lights have semiconductors
  • European Union has different regulations
    • Huge fabrication tension of where
  • ASML
    • TSMC
    • The flow of money spent on the
    • Governed by Moore laws
    • The number of transistors on a square meter would double every year
    • Fit the developments into the computer chips
    • Pentium processors went faster than Moore’s laws
    • How many people work in semiconductors?
    • Ultraviolet lights
    • Collaborations
  • Semiconductor stuff, how to do the knowledge management?
    • Work together with SAIS, German lens company
    • SAIS maybe made an investment in that
    • Seimer integrating with the equiptment
    • Global recruiment that they do
    • Optical engineering
    • Thats the most important thing
    • With customers and suppliers
    • Crash in 2009 and 2020
    • Apple, Intel, and Samsung
    • Flagship model
    • The chain is so fragile