Getting Knowledge into Production
Paul Spiers
Founder & CEO | Leadership & corporate culture consultancy. Global keynote speaker on Leadership & Culture in the age of AI. From Aotearoa/New Zealand. Based in the UK. Ngā Mahanga a Tairi
Sometimes it seems like just about everyone’s taking about the ‘productivity problem’ in business these days – the issue of low productivity, employee disengagement or how we maintain a productive culture in a more hybrid world of work and so on.?It’s a stubborn problem, a persistent one, and it would appear, an increasing one.
A couple of weeks’ back, we hosted Dominick Romano, founder of Drainpipe.io on The New P&L podcast, Ep 202, and in the middle of describing what his neural processing operating system delivered to businesses, he summarised it as essentially: “getting knowledge into production more rapidly to empower a business or empower a life.”
This comment really got us thinking at The New P&L about the link between levels of effective knowledge dissemination across an organisation and the potential relationship with, and impact on, levels of productivity within that business.?
So, this week on The New P&L TO THE POINT on Getting Knowledge into Production, we set out to explore exactly this – looking at the barriers to knowledge sharing as well as the fundamental difference between a business based on information dissemination and one based on knowledge distribution and the positive and powerful impact the latter can have on a business’s culture and its productivity.
You can listen to this The New P&L TO THE POINT episode – here.?And, once you’ve had a listen, let us know your own views by commenting at the bottom of this newsletter or leaving us a review!
Three stories you should read this week
As we state in this week’s The New P&L TO THE POINT episode, effective knowledge acquisition and distribution is one of the foundations of a more productive and successful business. This article, published in Forbes.com over the summer of 2022, considers the need for businesses to keep the knowledge bases they have firmly in focus as they realign themselves to take on the challenges of the ‘New Economy’.?https://bit.ly/3TTqcw3
?We spend a lot of time at The New P&L Brand Purpose Institute discussing ‘Vinyl Values’ – those statements and slogans that are printed on cut vinyl and stuck on the walls behind receptions, offices and boardrooms.?They are supposed to represent everything that the company believes in and stands for, however, sometimes the commitment to them in a business is about as thin as they vinyl they are printed on.? So, we were fascinated to find Fast Company’s ‘144 Brands that Matter in 2022’ awards list, which considers how brands measure up to the brand values and corporate statements they make. https://www.fastcompany.com/brands-that-matter/list
Although this Sifted article itself is from March this year, the topic is perennial – how do we help to ensure tech start-ups deliver for society, help society and not actively or inadvertently work against it? Ethical advisory boards have long been mooted as part of the solution to this considerable challenge. Although there are obvious holes in this approach too, which we may explore in more detail in a future newsletter, this article is a great exploration of the value ethical advisory boards can bring to the start-up eco-system. ?Can ethical advisory boards save startups from Big Tech’s mistakes? | Sifted
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Paul & the team,