This handbook contains a portfolio of frugal processes and techniques for:

• Capturing and retaining hard-to-replicate knowledge;
• Accelerating experiential knowledge transfers between experts and new-entry employees, and;
• Mitigating the risk of sudden or unexpected human capital loss.

How this Guidebook is Structured

Part One sets the context for the discussion with a brief overview of knowledge mobilization. This section defines knowledge mobilization, explains its growing importance, and describes the process of knowledge creation.

Part Two is the centerpiece of Fast-Tracking In-House Expertise. It outlines the main components of the Knowledge Mobilization Accelerator, an action-oriented framework for capturing and curating mission-critical, experiential knowledge resources. It features a strategy design process based on your specific needs and preferences.

Part Three provides knowledge practitioners with six templates corresponding to a different activity that they can adopt to enhance existing capacity, address a potential vulnerability, or close an identified knowledge gap. Each template also provides format variations for greater tactical flexibility and versatility.

This guidebook contains a portfolio of frugal knowledge-transfer and knowledge-translation techniques for:

• Establishing a baseline capacity;
• Building a well-designed infrastructure, and;
• Establishing norms of knowledge sharing and collaboration across the organization.

How this Guidebook is Structured

Part One sets the context for the discussion with a brief overview of knowledge mobilization. This section defines knowledge mobilization, explains its growing importance, and describes the process of knowledge creation.

Part Two is the centerpiece of Getting Smarter Together. It outlines the main components of the Knowledge Mobilization Accelerator, an action-oriented framework for catalyzing productive knowledge exchanges across the entire organization. It features a design process based on your specific needs and preferences.

Part Three provides practitioners with seven templates with different activities designed to address an identified knowledge gap, promote organizational learning, and to scale-up enterprise–wide knowledge exchanges. Each template contains additional options that practitioners can use to introduce greater flexibility into their strategy design process. In this section, you will also find a five-part evaluation matrix for measuring your organization’s knowledge mobilization performance and development.

The third product in the Knowledge Mobilization Accelerator series, it is designed for well-established organizations with a demonstrated proficiency in knowledge mobilization processes and activities.     

Key Focus Areas
Developing a Global Mindset contains a portfolio of cost-effective techniques in support of:

• Leveraging breakthrough insights about emerging risks and opportunities for strategic impact;
• Collecting actionable feedback about operational performance under different conditions of uncertainty; and,
• Integrating managerial foresight in the strategic planning cycle.

How this Guidebook is Structured

Part One sets the context for the discussion with a brief overview of knowledge mobilization. This section defines knowledge mobilization, explains its growing importance, and describes the process of knowledge creation.

Part Two is the centerpiece of Developing a Global Mindset. It outlines a process for designing a fit-for-purpose strategy to promote managerial foresight in public and private sector organizations and to foster agile thinking about emerging risks and opportunities as well as their potential consequences.

Part Three provides knowledge practitioners with six templates for use in facilitating scenario planning exercises, developing leading indicators to “stress-test” operational performance in alternative futures, and a dashboard to guide strategic planning discussions.