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There are many types of information, but these 6 techniques including "incongruous search" helps keep it all where it belongs.
By Brad Palmer
Knowledge sharing is hard. Information quickly gets lost in a clutter of disorganized repositories. Employees keep learning the same lessons. Observations and ideas don’t connect to make innovation happen.
How information is stored and discovered is core to this problem. In the enterprise, information belongs in three places:
Of course lots of valuable information ends up lost, implicitly archived, because it cannot be easily found and consumed. People are busy at work – they will tap into what is truly ready at hand, but will ignore the most profound of wisdom if it is just slightly out of their view. If knowledge is not encapsulated and made ready for future use, it quickly becomes forgotten and lost.
One of the key jobs of Jostle’s intranet platform is to make it easy to make capture knowledge and make information ready at hand for everyone to easily find and consume. We use six key strategies to make that happen.
Most organizations end up with vast piles of disorganized content spread across multiple repositories. That’s an unsolvable problem. But with the right information platform, it is easy to quickly fix things on a go-forward basis. Find and enable the right information owners, make it easy for them to organize what they care about and keep it current, and make everything easy to target, find and consume in rich context of person, place and topic. Knowledge gets shared, work gets done, innovation happens.
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