When KM Champions are nominated in an organization, they often wonder if they will be burdened with additional work or why wasn't their colleague nominated. This presentation gives the KM Champions an overview of why they are different and why were they nominated.

1. Championing Knowledge
Management

2. When the new KM Champion walks into the
1st Knowledge Champion Meeting…
they can’t help but wonder
What am I
doing
here?
The newly appointed Knowledge Champion

3. Let's hope by the end of this session,
the question is somewhat answered
(and we assume that you already know what is
Knowledge Management and what makes it work)

4. What makes you different?

5. Bell Curve explained
 The bell curve depicts the typical adopters of any new technology,
practice or concept
 2.5 % of the people are Innovators
 The next 13.5% are the Early Adopters
 These are the people who are
 more risk taking
 more enthusiastic
 key opinion leaders
 inquisitive
 lead by example
 The next 34% are Early Majority and 34% are Late Majority who follow
the Early Adopters
 And the last 16% are Laggards who basically follow since there is no
other choice left but to follow
The Knowledge Champions are seen as
the Early Adopters.

6. KM Champions as the Early Adopters
 You have to believe that KM can help you better
address the day to day challenges
 You have to believe that knowledge sharing can
enhance your personal knowledge and enable better
decisions
 You have to believe that knowledge management can
reduce reinventing of the wheel
 You have to believe that knowledge management can
give us a competitive advantage
 You have to believe that you are the Early adopters of
Knowledge Management who can influence the Early
Majority

7. KM Champions – KM Structure
KM Organization
Knowledge
Workers
KM Champions
Core KM Team

8. Role of the KM Champions
 KM Champions work closely with the core KM Team
 KM Champions grow their circle of influence to make
more Knowledge Workers
 Knowledge Workers are people who are able to use
Knowledge Management in their day-to-day working
 Knowledge Workers are able to make faster decisions,
they share knowledge, they capture lessons learnt
and they develop best practices
 Knowledge Organization where people use systems,
collaborate and seamlessly transfer and preserve
knowledge from the past and are able to mobilize the
knowledge of today

9. In our next session -
Let’s share notes on how you were able to
collaborate, capture lessons learnt, record the
Minutes of Meeting on a wiki or even bring other
colleagues who are interested to join the session.

10. Thank You and Happy Championing