Consultant Eline Bomhof introduces herselfEline Bomhof studied Adult Education at the University of Leiden. She gained valuable experience when she did an internship at the International Labour Organisation (ILO) in Geneva. During her internship she has been working on a project that stimulated the sharing of knowledge between twelve ILO projects worldwide. Eline tried to improve the knowledge sharing between the projects by working with mind maps, a wiki and teleconferences.
She was also part of the team that was responsible for the organization of the Knowledge Management for Development (KM4DEV) Workshop. This annual event stimulates knowledge management in international development agencies.
Her thesis focussed on the capturing and sharing of ‘lessons learned’ in development agencies. Case studies were the ILO and the Asian Development Bank (ADB).
Since June 2007 Eline Bomhof works as a consultant at DNV-CIBIT. She will be actively involved in a wide range of knowledge management projects. |
- Number 1: The Fifth Discipline
The Art & Practice of The Learning Organization, P.M. Senge, 1990, Currency..
In this book Senge proposes the "systems thinking" method to help a corporation to become a "learning organization", one that integrates at all personnel levels indifferently related company functions (sales, product design, etc.) to "expand the ability to produce." He describes requisite disciplines, of which systems-thinking is the fifth. Others include "personal mastery" of one's capacities and "team learning" through group discussion of individual objectives and problems. Employees and managers are also encouraged to examine together their often negative perceptions or "mental models" of company people and procedures.
- Number 2: Knowledge management: the practise (Dutch)
M. Weggeman, 2001, Scriptum.
Most organizations are aware of (the importance of) knowledge management. They are interested in the theory and probably already took some steps towards integrating it in the organization. But what’s next? In this book Weggeman describes and discusses of more than 70 different organizations the way they integrated knowledge management. Besides that he presents several concrete recommendations and ideas concerning the integration of knowledge management.
- Number 3: Knowledge Sharing in Practise
M.H. Huysman & D. Wit, 2002, Springer.
In this volume organizational learning theory is used to analyse various practices of managing and facilitating knowledge sharing within companies. Experiences with three types of knowledge sharing (knowledge acquisition, knowledge reuse and knowledge creation) at ten large companies are discussed and analyzed. This critical analysis leads to the identification of traps and obstacles when managing knowledge sharing, when supporting knowledge sharing with IT tools, and when organizations try to learn from knowledge sharing practices. The identification of these risks is followed by a discussion of how organizations can avoid them.
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