The Knowledge Cafà : Create an Environment for Successful Knowledge Management. This item is unavailable.The Knowledge Cafà : Create an Environment for Successful Knowledge Management

Knowledge Café is a process for sharing information, whether face to face or virtual. This popular and practical knowledge management tool supports a culture where projects and innovation thrive.

So many project workers are overloaded with useless information and starving for the information they really need. Knowledge Management (KM) is an important and underrated ingredient in successful project management. The Knowledge Café makes KM best practices accessible to project managers everywhere. Human knowledge is the intellectual capital of organizations, and the consequences for losing it are dire. Knowledge Café is a current, cross-generational, systematic concept designed to retain and manage relevant knowledge-stopping the unchecked brain drain that can occur when knowledge is hoarded. This method is as simple to use as a corner café and works in both virtual and real-life settings.

Knowledge Café will help you combine your institutional knowledge from your experienced workers with the fresh ideas bubbling up from the front lines. If our projects (and organizations) are to succeed, we absolutely must make the shift from knowledge hoarding to knowledge sharing. You can't afford to lose the vital institutional wisdom you've built up every time there is turnover in your workforce. Knowledge Café is the solution.

Benjamin C. Anyacho is a quintessential project manager and knowledge management (KM) evangelist with more than twenty-five years of results-driven leadership experience in managing complex projects and programs. A senior strategic project manager at Texas Department of Transportation, he leads an enterprise KM program, developing and maturing dozens of communities of practice. He has mentored and coached hundreds of small businesses, NGOs, project managers, and leaders. He is a Project Management Professional certification holder and holds a master's degree in business administration from St. Edward's University in Austin.