{"id":69,"date":"2012-06-30T04:25:48","date_gmt":"2012-06-30T03:25:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/knowledgeetal.wordpress.com\/2012\/07\/30\/insiders-view-on-knowledge-in-the-middle-east"},"modified":"2016-10-26T13:34:53","modified_gmt":"2016-10-26T12:34:53","slug":"insiders-view-on-knowledge-in-the-middle-east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.knowledgeetal.com\/?p=69","title":{"rendered":"insiders view on knowledge in the Middle East"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In 2011 I spoke at the inaugural KM Middle East event about a knowledge survey we created for the event and drawing on recent diagnostic work and the knowledge management strategy and implementation framework it spawned.<\/div>\n

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photo<\/em> | Tom Spender<\/a><\/p>\n

One of the tools Sparknow has used before as a way of raising awareness of, testing the receptivity for and measuring the impact of, a knowledge initiative is an online questionnaire. We usually keep it to about five sets of questions and ensure it takes no more than five minutes to complete \u2013 about the length of time it takes to drink a cup of coffee!<\/p>\n

It often kicks off a diagnostic process and provides useful pointers\/insights into what an organization understands knowledge management to be as well as highlighting \u2018the way we do things around here\u2019 through snippets and anecdotes.<\/p>\n

KM Mid East seemed like a good opportunity to stimulate a debate through an online questionnaire: knowledge management roles are beginning to appear in quasi government organizations and some recognize that the way \u2018stuff\u2019 is stored today will impact on its potential reuse. And this is being conducted against the following backdrop:<\/p>\n