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The Real Succession Plan For Steve Jobs: Apple Thinks Different With Apple University

Apple's Succession Strategy for Jobs:  Apple University

Publicly, we know that Apple has been grooming Tim Cook for several years.  Not only has he already experienced the CEO role, he has been working directly with Jobs on the company's supply chain - so he has a deep understanding of the internal operations of the company.

Behind the scenes, we also know that there has been a project at Apple for several years to "capture the essence of Steve Jobs management philosophies" for generations ahead. Under the title of Dean of Apple University, Joel Podolny (former Dean of Yale Business School) has been building a leadership curriculum around Jobs behind the scenes.

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via www.bersin.com

Knowledge retention: What practitioners need to know: KMWorld

Four key pillars underlying a knowledge retention strategy:

• bi-directional knowledge flow—having a top-down management push and bottom-up grass roots approach to gaining financial and moral support for KR activities;
• convenient KR mechanisms—using both codification (systems-oriented collection approaches) and personalization (people-to-people connection approaches);
• recognition and reward structure—incorporating ways to recognize and/or reward individuals for exhibiting knowledge sharing behaviors; and
• the golden gem—bringing back retirees creatively in KR roles.

via www.kmworld.com

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  Jay Liebowitz, Ph.D., is the Orkand Endowed Chair of Management and Technology in the Graduate School of Management & Technology at the University of Maryland University College e-mail [email protected].

The Collaborative Organization: How to Make Employee Networks Really Work - The Magazine - MIT Sloan Management Review

The Leading Question

How can companies build more collaborative and innovative organizations?

Findings

• Executives should analyze employee collaboration networks to discover how high-performing individuals and teams connect.
• Networks should be designed to optimize the flow of good ideas across function, distance and technical specialty.
• Network analysis can show where too much connectivity slows decision making.

via sloanreview.mit.edu

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Knowledge Management and Collaboration Create Knowledge Sharing - from Baseline

A very good series on knowledge management and collaboration.

Knowledge Management and Collaboration Create Knowledge Sharing

Baseline recently conducted a study of 342 managers knowledgeable about their company’s usage of knowledge management and collaboration technologies.

According to the survey results, 47 percent of companies have formal knowledge management initiatives or are planning them.  

 

 

 What’s the downside of using social networking to power knowledge sharing? Loss of control. “You have to have a tolerance for a certain amount of chaos or disorganization,” says AIIM’s Mancini. “You can’t anticipate many of the outcomes, so don’t try to over-engineer the whole thing.”