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KM Method Cards

I had the pleasure of catching up with Patrick Lambe when he was in town last week. Best yet, he provided me with a copy of their brand-new KM Method Cards.

80 cards in total, these cover a huge range of approaches, methods and tools. This includes methods such as appreciative inquiry, concept mapping, play of life, after action reviews, world cafe, and many many more.

This is a superb piece of work, and invaluable for knowledge management teams, in fact anyone with an interest in doing or learning about KM. There are so many uses for these cards, including:

• reviewing current techniques used, to identify gaps and opportunities
• learning about new approaches, using the cards as a "table of contents"
• sparking conversations amongst stakeholder sessions
• supporting facilitated discussions and other group formats
• underpinning formal training and skill sharing programmes
• breaking teams out of ruts or narrow fields of practice

These cards are both useful and fun. With KM being such a broad field, I strongly recommend everyone purchase a copy of these cards. Well done Patrick!

Posted by jamesr on July 01, 2008 09:22 AM
Categories: Knowledge management