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To drive development forward and enhance its effects, ADB publishes the Knowledge Solutions series. It aims to build competencies in the areas of strategy development, management techniques, collaboration mechanisms, knowledge sharing and learning, and knowledge capture and storage. Available: www.adb. org/site/knowledge-management/knowledge-solutions
and operations-based alliances resulting from Strategy 2020s call for more effective partnerships. Courses to promote awareness of, and action on, knowledge generation and sharing have also been also regularly conducted, a number of them developed by CoPs for their members. Similarly, surveys to gauge and deepen ADB staffs understanding of knowledge management have been conducted, with results improving with each year. Pooling Knowledge solutions With every initiative to realize the targets of the action plan, ADB pours its efforts on increasing its stock of knowledge, facilitating their flow, and increasingly on building staffs ability to learn, individually and collectively, thereby strengthening its capacity to learn as an institution. ADB also keeps track of people (including ADB staff and ADBs partners and stakeholders) who know things and showcases what they know. A principle throughout is to nurture organization, people, knowledge, and technology. To fuel these endeavors, ADB conceptualized in 2008 the Knowledge Solutions series, an expanding set of tools, methods, and approaches for learning across the Five Competencies Framework. The framework articulates key competencies crucial to knowledge management and learning: Strategy development Management techniques Collaboration mechanisms Knowledge sharing and learning Knowledge capture and storage
The Knowledge Solutions provide pithy tips on how to handle particular learning issues relative to these competencies. Do you wish to know how to bridge organizational silos? Or how best to learn from failure? What about how to maximize the learning potential of teams or tap the potential of social media? What next Learning is the key to survival in todays complex environment. Implementing the Knowledge Management Action Plan has started to hone ADBs ability to use its intellectual capital to make better decisions and create conditions for creativity and innovation, eventually for the benefit of ADBs developing member countries. The Knowledge Solutions series has provided staff and partners with the tools to make this possible.
Maria Christina Dueas and Olivier Serrat
Read the original think piece at www.adb.org/features/ahead-curveputting-knowledge-solutions-work.
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