Small Business Needs KM too – Jack Vinson

Jack Vinson provides a link to a post in RealKM on Knowledge Management Critical for Start-ups.

“Start-ups are one of the most information intense and fastest changing organizations in Business. Yet most start-ups rely only on the basic tools like email and maybe a file-share to manage information. It’s crazy when I think about it….”

Jack provides some useful commentary and writes, “This entry is a nice pairing with a recent Management by Baseball article on the Off Topic: The Diseconomies of Scale Proved(Indisputably) by the 2004 Olympics. Jeff Angus talks about the problems that appear as companies grow "too large" and start losing any benefit that being large buys them. Jeff doesn't focus on knowledge sharing, but in combination with the above, my brain starts popping with nice connections.”

I have been part of several start-ups connected to KM and learning where internal KM was left to chance and saw the consequences. Blogs now provide a very useful KM tool for small businesses that offers context (what is often missing), a searchable archive, and links in our web-based world at comparatively little cost to other solutions,