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Chapter 8: The KM Toolkit | 81<br />

Tool Description Supports Sends to<br />

The world<br />

café<br />

Wiki<br />

A process <strong>for</strong><br />

building knowledge<br />

about a focused need<br />

or opportunity.<br />

A web site or group<br />

of web pages used<br />

<strong>for</strong> collabor<strong>at</strong>ion.<br />

Table 8.1 (Continued)<br />

• Collabor<strong>at</strong>ion<br />

• Idea gener<strong>at</strong>ion<br />

• Problem solving<br />

• <strong>Knowledge</strong> sharing<br />

• Collabor<strong>at</strong>ion<br />

• Group and<br />

individual learning<br />

• Dialogue<br />

• <strong>Knowledge</strong> Moments<br />

Case Examples #3,9, MQI<br />

paper on Rel<strong>at</strong>ionship<br />

Network <strong>Management</strong><br />

• Blog<br />

• Technology Rel<strong>at</strong>ed Tools<br />

Case Example #20<br />

Level of ef<strong>for</strong>t/<br />

size of utility/<br />

scope of work<br />

Med/med-large/C 2<br />

C 2 = context/content<br />

dependent<br />

Med/med-large/wide<br />

Source: Project 4003 KM Toolkit.<br />

Definitions:<br />

• Level of ef<strong>for</strong>t [low, med, high] = Rel<strong>at</strong>ive amount of investment (time, people, funds) needed to implement this<br />

initi<strong>at</strong>ive.<br />

• Size of utility [small, med, large, scalable] = small is 0–50, med is 50–300, large is gre<strong>at</strong>er than 300 employees.<br />

Scalable means th<strong>at</strong> the tool can be used with all sizes of utilities.<br />

• Scope of work [narrow, med, wide] = Range of situ<strong>at</strong>ions, issues, problems th<strong>at</strong> this initi<strong>at</strong>ive can address.<br />

• C 2 means th<strong>at</strong> the initi<strong>at</strong>ive is very context and content sensitive and is difficult to c<strong>at</strong>egorize.<br />

• NA is not applicable.<br />

Table 8.2<br />

Ideas in the drinking w<strong>at</strong>er utility KM Toolkit<br />

Idea area<br />

Descriptors of ideas<br />

Additional assessment tools<br />

Action Assessment and Learning<br />

Benchmarking<br />

Case Studies<br />

Cost Benefit Analysis<br />

Inquiry Groups<br />

Inventories<br />

Surveys<br />

Building trust<br />

“My Story” Program<br />

“Care to Share” Blog<br />

Social Networking<br />

Consistency of Behavior<br />

(continued)<br />

©2011 W<strong>at</strong>er Research Found<strong>at</strong>ion. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

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