Knowledge Creation – VOLLMAR Wissen+Kommunikation

Forecast to knowledge – recording of WMOOC live session available online

Gabriele Vollmar — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 11:06:19 +0000

Another recording of a live session of our Knowledge Management MOOC (WMOOC) 2025 is now online. The only one in English at this year’s course. With this live session, we left behind the boundaries of the organization we usually operate within and looked at our topic of KM from a (global) political perspective. It was extremely interesting and stimulating. Thank you very much, Yannick! (Duration 43’40 Min.)

WMOOC Live Sessions in der nächsten Woche

Gabriele Vollmar — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 10:35:23 +0000

Da wir die Live Session der letzten Woche krankheitsbedingt verschieben mussten, gibt es in dieser Woche gleich zwei Sessions:

Thema 1: From Forecast to Expertise mit Yannick Vogt (Bakboka AG), die Session ist in englischer Sprache.
Yannick ist Mitgründer der Bakboka AG in Zürich, die zukünftige Ereignisse mithilfe einer Expertengemeinschaft antizipiert und dafür die Beobachtungen, Analysen und Prognosen von Experten nutzt, um Veränderungen in fragilen Ländern und Schwellenmärkten zu erkennen. Yannick, der aktuell in Kenia lebt, wird darüber berichten, warum es schwierig ist dieses expert knowledge zu interpretieren und wie der Weg von “Rohdaten” über eine interpretierte Analyse hin zu Wissen führt, auf dessen Grundlage Entscheidungen getroffen werden können.
Termin: Mittwoch, 3. Dezember, 17 Uhr

Thema 2 (verschoben von 27.11.): The Art of Unlearning: Warum Organisationen nicht nur Wissen aufbauen, sondern auch bewusst Überholtes loslassen müssen mit Janine Bauer (Transformation Mindset), die Session ist in deutscher Sprache.
Janine ist UNLearning Facilitator und Digital Learning Manager und reflektiert gemeinsam mit uns die Rolle von Unlearning im Wissensmanagement: Was macht Loslassen so schwer – individuell und organisatorisch? Wie kann Unlearning im Alltag und in der Organisation gelebt werden?
Termin: Donnerstag, 4. Dezember, 16 Uhr

Wie immer stehen die Live Sessions allen Interessierten offen, auch denen die (noch) nicht für den WMOOC registriert sind. Bei Interesse bitte einfach bei mir melden, dann schicke ich die Einwahldaten zu. Oder am besten gleich für den WMOOC Newsletter anmelden!

Moving up the Knowledge Work Value Chain

Gabriele Vollmar — Thu, 27 Mar 2025 12:38:31 +0000

Interesting AI supported knowledge work workflow based on a simple model for knowledge work where the emphasis is on improving the quality of the input and not on speeding up the processing part.

The role of KM when it comes to innovation

Gabriele Vollmar — Mon, 03 Mar 2025 14:06:39 +0000

Last week I attended a really inspiring talk held by Patrick Cohendet (HEC Montreal), organized by the Research Network of the KMGN: Knowledge Based Approaches to The Firm: An Idea-Driven Perspective.

What I really liked and what was an excellent food for thought was the conception of Knowledge Management as a bridging funtion between the Generating of (many) Ideas and the Innovation Management. Knowledge Management facilitates the evaluation and filtering of ideas by ensuring that during this process relevant knowledge is available and efficiently used:
„[…] an idea needs to be equipped with various bodies of knowledge in order to become commercially viable. After the initial spark, the “social and cognitive construction of the idea” phase becomes crucial in the ideation journey. The goal is to provide the idea with enough knowledge to form an internally consistent set of concepts and ultimately make it commercially viable.“ (Patrick Cohendet)

So, the question is not – as often asked for in organizations – to clearly distinguish between KM on the one and Innovation Management on the other side. On the contrary, KM is at the very basis and an essential prerequisite for a successful Innovation Management, isn’t it? Always felt, now well explained. Thank you, Patrick!

What diving has to do with the SECI model

Gabriele Vollmar — Tue, 02 Jun 2020 13:47:11 +0000

In one of my university courses the students are asked to produce a short video on a core concept of knowledge management. Alisa Ruths chose the SECI model and created a wonderful video explanation…which was retrieved on the internet by a huge international company that now wants to use it for their internal KM training. To this purpose Alisa created an English version of her video which I proudly present here:

By the way, the German version can be found here.

The impact of information technology on knowledge creation

Gabriele Vollmar — Wed, 15 May 2019 14:24:44 +0000

I am very proud about some numbers sent to me today: The article The impact of information technology on knowledge creation: An affordance approach to social media, which I wrote in 2014 together with Prof. Heinz-Theo Wagner and Dr. David Wagner and which was published in the Journal of Enterprise Information Management, has been downloaded over 5000 times and received over 100 citations in various scientific publications.

Curious? Here you go!