Saturday, July 28, 2012

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Many people may cringe when they think about HR owning or, even worse, trying to manage the flow of knowledge or information in an organization. You might be saying to yourself that this role should belong to the communications department, the IT department, or (as a last resort) the learning department ? but not HR.

What is the value of information?

However, if we look at the core of this idea we need to think about the value of information to your organization. Information really has no value in itself ? it is a great deal of bits and parts of data captured in some cohesive fashion. It becomes knowledge when someone assigns value to those facts and figures. What gives information its value? People. People create information, use it, analyze it, and assign value to it; people give the information value.

Where is information located?

Information is often found in technology, but originally the information comes from people. It is the people that decide where to put that information, how to categorize it, and how someone will access it over time. The technology is a conduit ? but it can be both a positive and a negative force in facilitating the transfer of knowledge and information.

Who uses information?

People use the information to which they have access to make decisions, inform their actions, provide insight, or drive a goal. Information can be used as a powerful tool, a weapon, or as a fortune telling instrument. If a company?s collective knowledge is ignored or not accessible, both the organization and its people can make poor decisions which can negatively impact business outcomes.

In Frank Leistner?s 2010 book on ?Mastering Organizational Knowledge Flow: How to Make Knowledge Sharing Work?, Larry Prusak defined the shift he had observed in the approach of organizations to managing knowledge and information. Here?s a summary of that definition.

The old view of knowledge management in organizations was based on the following assumptions:

  • Knowledge in organizations is most likely to be found in documents [and databases].
  • The key to managing these documents are better systems and taxonomies.
  • All of these management activities can be measured for their effectiveness within the organization and the effectiveness justifies the costs.
  • Knowledge is the result of individual action and thinking.

Prusak felt these ideas were flawed and found that companies were adopting a new set of assumptions about managing knowledge and information:

  • Knowledge can be best understood as a social phenomenon, and efforts to work with it are better structured as a group effort than by individuals.
  • Working with knowledge needs some mixture or combination of human capital, strategy, technology, and social capital approaches.
  • Measuring knowledge and information management is worthless, but measuring the human relationships and business decisions is invaluable.

A truly progressive HR function realizes that its role is focused on managing the people environment ? ensuring that the workforce has the tools, information, motivations, and relationships they need to perform at their highest levels. In Brandon Hall Groups recent relationship-centered learning research, over 57% of 600 organizations identified one of their top two businesses priorities as gaining market share or increasing innovation. Our economy is no longer being driven by who has more information ? but rather by how organizations make sense of the overwhelming amount of information available to them. That sense of order and value come from insights, social value, and great analytics that can only come from the people of your organization? and, as we all know, people are the main priority for HR.

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Stacey Harris oversees Brandon Hall Group?s research strategy and agenda, solution provider relations, and advisory services. Her background includes experience leading enterprise-wide change management initiatives and technology implementations, business process alignments, and the design and implementation of integrated organizational effectiveness solutions including measurement strategies?. View?full?profile

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Friday, July 27, 2012

Ghana's Mills 'had cancer and could work few hours'

Ghana's ex-leader Jerry Rawlings has said late president John Atta Mills was suffering from cancer and could only work for a few hours per day before his death earlier this week.

In comments to the BBC's Focus on Africa programme while attending an event in Congo, Rawlings said Mills' death on Tuesday "was not unexpected" and suggested the late president may have lived longer had he focused on treatment.

He said Mills had been battling cancer for "quite a while."

The interview has drawn attention back home in Ghana, both from those who say Rawlings, who maintains wide influence in the West African nation, was disrespectful and others who argue he was simply being truthful.

No official cause has been given for Mills' death, though there have been unconfirmed reports in local media saying he suffered from throat cancer.

"Quite frankly, I think had he been advised and done something wiser earlier on, he could probably have survived for another six, seven months, I guess," Rawlings said in the interview.

The two men have been rivals recently despite Mills previously serving as Rawlings' vice president. Asked about Mills' legacy, Rawlings said that "he's played his part."

"As my vice president, I think he was one of the finest...," Rawlings said.

He added later, referring to Mills' recent performance, "considering that the cancer affected both his eye and his ear, he couldn't sustain more than three hours per day."

Rawlings was Ghana's longest ruler who seized power in successive coups, in 1979 and 1981, before serving as the elected president from 1993-2001.

Ghana has recently been seen as a bastion of democracy in West Africa, and the transition so far has gone smoothly, with vice president John Dramani Mahama swiftly sworn in to replace Mills, as spelled out in the constitution.

Elections are set for December, and Mills had been set to seek re-election. Senior figures of the ruling National Democratic Congress were to meet on Thursday to decide a way forward, and it was unclear if Rawlings would attend.

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Samir Nasri banned for 3 matches by French FA

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updated 12:20 p.m. ET July 27, 2012

PARIS (AP) -The French Football Federation banned midfielder Samir Nasri on Friday for three matches because of his undisciplined behavior at the European Championship.

Nasri issued an expletive-laced rant at a journalist following France's 2-0 defeat to Spain in the quarterfinals. He previously made a sarcastic gesture with his finger over his mouth and yelled "Shut your mouth!" at another journalist after scoring in the opening Group D match against England.

The ban rules Nasri out of a friendly against Uruguay next month, and 2014 World Cup qualifiers against Finland and Belarus.

Three other players appeared before the FFF's disciplinary hearing on Friday because of their misbehavior at Euro 2012.

Winger Jeremy Menez was given a one-match ban, while winger Hatem Ben Arfa and central midfielder Yann M'Vila escaped with reprimands.

Menez swore at captain Hugo Lloris during the same match and M'Vila left the pitch without shaking the hand of France coach Laurent Blanc or that of Olivier Giroud, his replacement.

Ben Arfa was involved in a heated changing-room bust-up with Blanc following the 2-0 defeat to Sweden in the final group match, reportedly angering the coach by speaking on his mobile phone while Blanc was addressing the players following the defeat. Blanc turned down a new contract offer after Euro 2012 and Didier Deschamps is now in charge.

Jean Mazella, who heads the disciplinary committee, told RMC radio that the players "did not apologize" but that they "regretted what they said and how they behaved."

Menez was represented at the hearing by his lawyer.

"He regrets what happened. It was an error of youth," lawyer Carlo Alberto Brusa said.

The incidents undermined Blanc's attempts to rebuild the national team's image following the 2010 World Cup under former coach Raymond Domenech. Striker Nicolas Anelka received an 18-match ban after insulting coach Raymond Domenech in the dressing room during the tournament in South Africa.

Several players - including captain Patrice Evra - received shorter bans for their part in a training-ground strike in protest over Anelka being sent home.

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Hello & welcome to my new bi-monthy feature called fit friday!
On my post about being healthy I got some encouragment to do more health/fitness style posts, so I thought why not make sure that I post about it regularly and make it a feature?!
I decided on fridays twice a month because first of all, "fit friday" just sounds good, so of course it had to be on fridays. End of convo.
It was going to be every week, but then I decided that I might have a hard time coming up with fitness-related things to write about every week. So twice a month will be perf!

I have so many ideas for posts for this feature, you guys. Eating right and working out is something that I have gotten into a lot recently and it has been getting more and more important to me. I'm really excited about this series!

Okay, so enough about that. The very first Fit Friday is going to be some of my favorite Pinterest inspiration. I know that there's a lot of controversy over "thinspo" (thin-inspiration) on Pinterest because it contributes a lot to unhealthy eating disorders. So I tend to steer clear of "thinspo" and pin more things that inspire people to go work out and eat healthily, not starve themselves.

all images via pinterest. you can follow my health + fitness board here.

*disclaimer: I definitely do not know everything about eating healthy and working out. Keep that in mind with all of my future posts in this series! All of my tips are just what work for me. xo?


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