{"id":633,"date":"2012-05-20T15:19:39","date_gmt":"2012-05-20T07:19:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hkkms.hk\/?p=633"},"modified":"2013-04-18T23:45:47","modified_gmt":"2013-04-18T15:45:47","slug":"reflections-on-knowledge-loss-from-retirees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hkkms.hk\/index.php\/2012\/05\/reflections-on-knowledge-loss-from-retirees\/","title":{"rendered":"Reflections on &#8220;Knowledge loss from retirees&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the May meeting of the society, Cherie Lui and Jessica Yip from the KMIRC eloquently spoke about <a title=\"Reduce the impact on Knowledge Loss from Babyboomers retirement syndrome\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hkkms.hk\/index.php\/2012\/04\/knowledge_loss\/\" target=\"_blank\">knowledge loss from baby boomers retiring<\/a>.\u00a0 They painted a picture of the <strong>cost<\/strong> of knowledge loss, quoting examples such as Nasa\u2019s collective loss of memory on how to land on the moon, a fact that has proven to be very expensive.<\/p>\n<p>Various useful techniques were presented and discussed; good pragmatic and necessary approaches such as knowledge audits, storytelling, story circles\/dialogues, team learning. As well as finding ways to engage and recall ex-workers for e.g. mentorship schemes, community facilitators etc etc.<\/p>\n<p>The subject certainly provoked interest and discussion within the packed room with varying points of views raised and an active debate ensued.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the interesting points raised was actually ultimately about whether retirees knowledge actually should be retained, shouldn\u2019t we let the new vanguard drive their own vision of how a company should be run? \u00a0Isn\u2019t \u201cOrganisational Unlearning\u201d just as important.? Also maybe what is needed is some way that coming retirees can impart their wisdom and insights into various scenarios and workplace challenges.?<\/p>\n<p>The discussion was active and could have gone on and on, \u00a0but alas we had to give the room back.<\/p>\n<p>For what it is worth, my view is that there is a need to retain valuable knowledge, this much we all know.\u00a0 The question is what to retain and how? Knowledge loss from baby boomer retirees is an issue, we need to be proactive to ensure that invaluable insights are codified or retained where possible and that important individual retirees can continue to bring value to the party. \u00a0They won\u2019t continue to run the show, but their wisdom and insights on an ongoing basis can and will make a difference.\u00a0\u00a0 But will they be willing to come back to the party.?<\/p>\n<p>Any and all comments are welcome<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the May meeting of the society, Cherie Lui and Jessica Yip from the KMIRC eloquently spoke about knowledge loss from baby boomers retiring.\u00a0 They painted a picture of the cost of knowledge loss, quoting examples such as Nasa\u2019s collective loss of memory on how to land on the moon, a fact that has proven <a href='http:\/\/www.hkkms.hk\/index.php\/2012\/05\/reflections-on-knowledge-loss-from-retirees\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[54,38,53,39,55,56],"class_list":["post-633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary","tag-km","tag-knowledge-loss","tag-knowledge-management","tag-knowledge-retention","tag-mentoring","tag-organisational-unlearning","category-28-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - 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