Knowledge Management Principle One of Seven (Rendering Knowledge by David Snowden)
Knowledge can only be volunteered it cannot be conscripted. You can’t make someone share their knowledge, because you can never measure if they have. You can measure information transfer or process compliance, but you can’t determine if a senior partner has truly passed on all their experience or knowledge of a case.
To create successful topic maps, there must be incentives for sharing the information that forms the topic map.
Sharing of information should be rewarded, frequently and publicly, short and long term.
Example of failure to create incentives for sharing information: U.S. Intelligence Community.
If your organization, business, enterprise, government, government-in-waiting deserves better than that.
Create incentives for sharing information and start building topic maps today!