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Social media @ Projective: ervaringen en geleerde lessen

Wednesday, December 16th, 2009

Zoals aangekondigd in een eerdere blogpost hebben we dit jaar een korte reeks experimenten met sociale media uitgevoerd bij de afdeling Projective van Rabobank  Nederland. Het doel van de experimenten was om te leren in hoeverre sociale media een bijdrage kunnen leveren aan verbondenheid en kennisdelen in een afdeling van verspreid werkende project management professionals. De sociale media die voor dit doel zijn geselecteerd en gebruikt zijn Twitter, Sharepoint discussiefora, en een Buddyspotter variant (Hi WaarZitWie).

Onderstaande presentatie vat de aanleiding, uitvoering, en geleerde lessen van de experimenten samen. Enkele interessante uitkomsten zijn:

  • sociale media versterken de informele kant van een organisatie;
  • sociale media faciliteren het leggen van contact en het elkaar weten te vinden (oftewel het versterken en verrijken van je netwerk);
  • sociale media versnellen het op zoek gaan naar informatie ten opzichte van het omslachtige via-via doorverwezen worden naar anderen.

Twitter en discussiefora blijken complementaire meerwaarde te bieden voor kennisdelen. Twitter is georiënteerd  op personen; het faciliteert daardoor het leggen van contact en het versterkt de onderlinge verbondenheid. Discussiefora zijn daarentegen georiënteerd  op onderwerpen, ze faciliteren het elkaar informeren en het terugvinden van informatie over een specifiek onderwerp. Een hechte en gebruiksvriendelijke integratie van Twitter en discussiefora, zoals deze bijvoorbeeld in Yammer te vinden is, lijkt daarom voor het bevorderen van verbondenheid en kennisdelen een zeer geschikte optie.

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Evaluating Twitter in our expertise group

Thursday, April 9th, 2009

Exactly two months ago our expertise group started an experiment with Twitter to see how it could facilitate knowledge sharing in between the monthly group meetings, and to see how it could improve social cohesion in the group.

 

Some characteristics of the expertise group

  • 14 researchers with a shared interest in how ICT affects work, life, and society;
  • they are working in the same research institute, but located over various parts of the building;
  • they frequently work elsewhere, for instance during client visits, workshops, conferences;
  • they are all working on several different projects at a time;
  • they are well acquainted with one another, though not co-working on a daily basis;
  • they share a feeling that cohesion and knowledge sharing in the group could be improved. 

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Lessons learned: knowledge sharing in Rabobank Projective

Thursday, November 6th, 2008

Two goals that are high on the agenda of Rabobank Netherlands are improving the effectiveness of knowledge sharing, and stimulating new ways of work. Via the “Unplugged” change program, Rabobank is exploring ways to improve and facilitate location and time independent ways of work. In this practical case we investigated how knowledge sharing can be stimulated and facilitated within a department of highly autonomous project management professionals. A leaflet describing the main lessons learned is available here (in Dutch).

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Lessons learned: Coping with information overload

Friday, October 10th, 2008

A growing number of knowledge workers is confronted with the consequences of information overload on a daily basis. In the METIS knowledge management project we performed a pilot study at the petrochemical multinational Basell (now LyondellBasell), where we investigated the causes of information overload and evaluated instruments to reduce the impact of information overload. A leaflet summarizing the study can be downloaded here (English), and a presentation with highlights of the study can be downloaded here (English) or here (Dutch).

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Knowledge sharing @ Rabobank Projective

Friday, August 22nd, 2008

Introduction

Projective is a department of Rabobank Netherlands. Its 80 employees are professional project managers responsible for complex projects within the Rabobank organization. For the duration of their projects they are stationed elsewhere, for example at the Utrecht or Eindhoven headquarters, at affiliate organizations, or at local banks throughout The Netherlands. As such, they form a group of nomadic workers that is scattered throughout the organization and the country. As a consequence, and due to the constant influx and outflux of employees, Projective is facing the challenge of how to effectively organize knowledge sharing within the department. In this pilot case, we quickly discovered that social connectedness is a key prerequisite for informal knowledge sharing. (more…)

RaboWiki case

Wednesday, August 13th, 2008

Sharing knowledge and collaboration across organizational boundaries is high on the agenda of Rabo Unplugged. Valuable knowledge at local branch offices now sometimes remains unused, while the wheel is reivented in other cases. RaboWiki, an interactive website that allows all Rabobank employees to share and discuss information, may be a solution. In this pilot case at the Knowledge and Information Centre of Rabobank (KIRA) has been investigated how a wiki can be applied for knowledge sharing and collaboration. (more…)