GuruScan - Knowledge Management lecture University Nijmegen
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GuruScan— know the expert —
user friendly expert management
Dion Slijp & Bart Verheijen – 9 december 2009
Agenda
• About us• Knowledge vision• Expert management• GuruScan customers • Case: TMC Technology
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About Dion Slijp
• Dion Slijp– business oriented & applied
informatics
• Océ Technologies– software development
• Océ Netherlands– eMarketing
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About Bart Verheijen
• Bart Verheijen– organic chemistry– management sciences
• Océ Technologies– application research– new business development
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About GuruScan
• GuruScan– first idea 2003– patent application 2006– company start 2008– launching customer 2009
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GuruScan (1)
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“[employees] are roughly five times as likely to turn to a person for information as to an impersonal source”
Tom Allen (MIT)
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Use the power of informal social networks!
GuruScan results
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Agenda
• About us• Knowledge vision• Expert management• GuruScan customers • Case: TMC Technology
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GuruScan vision
• Knowledge resides in people– Explicit & tacit inseparable
Knowledge = ƒ(Information x ExperienceSkillAttitude)
Mathieu Weggeman (2000)
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GuruScan vision
• Knowledge processes support organizational strategy
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“To be most effective, the KM strategy of an organization should be compatible with and developed inline with their business strategy.”
Donald Hislop (2005)
Data - knowledge
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Knowledge - performance
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Agenda
• About us• Knowledge vision• Expert management• GuruScan customers • Case: TMC Technology
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Expert management
• IST:– Experts forced to fill database
graveyards with explicit knowledge.
• SOLL:– Just-in-time knowledge sharing of
problem-owner and best expert.
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Obstacles
• Knowledge
– How many people do you know?
– Dunbar number: 150
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Obstacles
• Safety
– reputation, learning, diverging, competition, etc
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Agenda
• About us• Knowledge vision• Expertmanagement• GuruScan customers • Case: TMC Technology
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Customers
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Result
• Find knowledge within the company
• Do not reinvent the wheel
• Connect departments and locations
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Agenda
• About us• Knowledge vision• Expertmanagement• GuruScan customers • Case: TMC Technology
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Case: TMC Technology
Consulting & Engineering company TMC Group deploys over 460 highly educated employeneurs, specialists and consultants with various clients on a project basis.
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TMC Structure (2)
• Business cell– 1 director– 2 account managers– 1 office manager– 30 employeneurs
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Developments
• Strong growth (100% in 2008)
• Strategic choice for projects
• Results: larger and looser company
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Strategic challenges
• Help eachother with problems• Cross selling
• Sell the company not the expert• Acquire full projects
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GuruScan actions
• GuruScan pilot (100 participants)• Generating awareness
• Export to knowledge matrix• Knowledge network visualisation
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GuruScan results
• 150 topics and active usage• Clear examples of added value
• TMC’s customers are impressed
• Pilot prolonged and extended
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