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Measuring The Value of KM 12163
Measuring The Value of KM 12163
David Gurteen
Gurteen Knowledge
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Objectives
• Senior management
– Sell & measure on business outcomes
• Staff
– Sell & measure on what's in it for them
Two types of measure
• Cynefin domains
– Simple
– Comlpicated
– Complex
– Chaotic
• You cannot correlate cause & effect in the complex
domain
• You cannot say this was an outcome of my activity
• And thus things cannot be directly measured
Cannot measure the new
• Anecdotal stories
– Success stories
– Focused on outcomes
• Surveys and polls
– Can provide numbers
Best Measures
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Rewards Punish
• Beware of measures!
• Think carefully!
• Measure outcomes not activities
• Chose measures that can not be easily
gamed
• Measures are best as learning tools
• Don’t reward outside the normal ‘appraisal
system’
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David Gurteen
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