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Are you ready for Knowledge

Management?

Have a go at this simple test:

There are no trick questions

There are no right or wrong answers

And there is no pass mark or failure

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1. Would your company fail if the critical information/expertise/knowledge
disappeared?
2. Would loss of key personnel/knowledge cripple or ruin your business?

3. Do you keep making the same mistakes?

4. Do staff find it difficult to find out information about company processes,

procedures & policy?
5. Ever had something go wrong, and then someone say to you “If only you
had asked me because I know about that?”
6. Ever heard discussions around the company/staff “I know we do this, but I
don’t know who is responsible”.
7. Do you want feedback from the end user of your product?

8. Do you need to share information on collaboration projects?

9. Do you want to stimulate innovation and learning within your company?

10. Do you want to tap into the talent of your workforce?

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11. Has someone left the company and performance was adversely affected

12. Ever struggled to solve a problem, and someone says “I’m sure we’ve
done that before but I can’t remember the answer”.
13. Ever had someone say “don’t feel bad we made that mistake on our
project!” or
14. “That’s a coincidence - we made that same mistake on the last project”

15. Someone say “That worked well on my project why didn’t you ask me for
some advice?”
16. Do you need to share information/knowledge with partner organisations?

17. Do you need to make knowledge/information accessible at any time/place?

18. Had a critical element of your business fail because a key member of your
organisation left?
19. Ever thought that if you had the Knowledge of Person X then you could do
your job better?

20. Have you ever had to search for someone who knows about a particular
Widget/Process/Subject?

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If you answered ‘Yes’ to any of the questions then you

would probably benefit from adopting Knowledge Management

If you answered ‘No’ to all of the questions then

you are already practising Knowledge Management principles and
maybe it’s time to move to the next level.

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