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Sharing knowledge
effectively across
boundaries, between
projects and organisations
Webinar, Tuesday 23rd Feb 2016
Today we will hear from:
Andy Wall Chief Technologist - Knowledge and Standards at United Utilities
Adrian Malone Director & Group Head of Knowledge Management & Collaboration
at Atkins
Michael Norton Digital Community & Knowledge Manager at Knowledge Hub
Martin Fisher Head of Knowledge Management at Industry Forum
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Andy Wall – United Utilities
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If we all knew
what we all
know!
If we all knew what
we all Know
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• Introduction
• Knowledge Management Context
• The Challenge we face
• The development of RoCK
• The Rock process
• Summary
• Q&A
A little bit about United
Utilities (UU)
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• United Utilities holds a licence to provide water and sewage services to around seven million people in North West England.
• These services are carefully regulated by the water regulator
• between 2010-2015 UU invested more than £3 billion to improve the water and wastewater infrastructure and the environment across the North West
• Since 1990 we've invested appox £4000 for every household in the North West
• 42,000 kilometres of water pipes, from Cumbria to Cheshire
• 76,000 kilometres of sewers • 569 wastewater treatment works • 94 water treatment works • 56,000 hectares of catchment
land
A little bit about me My Name is Andy Wall
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That’s probably enough
What is Knowledge
Management
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“…..the process of capturing, developing, sharing, and effectively using organisational knowledge. It refers to a multi-disciplined approach to achieving
organisational objectives by making the best use of knowledge.
How long?
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We've been at this a while –
But I wonder if anyone can
guess just how long ?
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“…..recording our knowledge on cave walls.”
“ …when we moved the recorded knowledge stayed behind”
Success ?
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So what does it look like when
we all know what we all know?
The Borg were a pseudo-species of cybernetic beings,. No single individual truly existed within the Borg Collective as all Borg
were linked into a hive mind. Their ultimate goal was the attainment of 'perfection' through the forcible assimilation of diverse
sentient species, technologies, and knowledge.
If we all knew what we all know
What would things look
like?
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Resistance is futile
Our Approach to
Knowledge Management
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‘Creating Value by
Sharing what we know’
Its about working together easily
Finding up to date information fast
Tapping into the collective
experience of UU
Sharing Lessons Learned
Knowing who to ask
Sharing Technical
Knowledge.
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DSEAR Working Group
Designing for Safety Working Group
Wastewater Network Technical Liaison
Knowledge Communities and Subject Matter Experts (SME’s)
Codified Knowledge
Tacit Knowledge
Lessons learnt, continuous
improvement
RoCK
Background
The Challenge
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• Massive capital program looming (>£3bn) • No way to systematically capture or disseminate good ideas /
good practice • New external Capital delivery Partners on board for the next 5
years • Incentivised to innovate • Less design done internally • Needed to link learning / knowledge to the specific assets we
were building • Estimators don’t update their cost curves for projects in real
time (often 12 months after a job had finished on site) • Need To communicate the opportunities for savings or H&S
improvements
Lessons Learned
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Lessons Learnt Tracker
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5
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30
10 11 12 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 1 2
2008/09 2009/10 2010/11 2011/12
0
20
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60
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Open Closed Tracker
Using the Left hand scale, •the yellow bars show the number of Lessons opened in each month
• the green bars show the number of Lessons closed in the month. Using the Right hand scale •The red line tracks the Cumulative number of Open Lessons
Reuse of Company Knowledge (RoCK) Re-use opportunities from the past
Capture innovative thinking and the cost
savings associated to ensure our standards
are kept up to date and the assets of the future
incorporate savings realised in the past!
The Process
Push / Pull ALL opportunities into ALL future
Projects
RoCK
Project lifecycle
Opportunities
Push
Pull
Current Phase: ‘Build’
Relational Database - built ready for content
RoCK Database
Good Ideas (opportunities)
Input Form
Project
Opportunities
Output Form
Standard
Opportunities
Output Form
Governance
Opportunities
Output Form
RoCK Output Doc
Where are we up to?
• Not as far as we should be
• Excuses, Excuses
• We’ve demonstrated the concept using historical
content collected for other purposes
• We have built it into our PDS and ways of working
• We are now going to start collecting new content as
AMP6 projects start
• Our aim is to eventually build a self service system
• But it might need to be a manual activity until its
embedded
Summary
Questions
Re-using
Knowledge
How do we…
How do we…
RoCK
Benefits
Consistently apply the right knowledge, to the right situation, at the earliest opportunity
Collect more of the knowledge from our organisation to ensure our standards continue to reflect our aspirations and best working practices
Developed to resolve some familiar problems that exist in many organisations…..
Knowing what we do - Doing what we know
Align opportunities to individual projects (assets) in the forthcoming capital program. Align opportunities to appropriate standards so that they can be considered when being reviewed.
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££ ‘s
££ ‘s
Reducing costs across the project lifecycle
NEED OPERATE
BREAK
GROUND
STRATEGY DESIGN SPECIFICATION BUILD IMPLEMENT
Solution design and specification develops as the definition becomes more and more detailed
BETTER
STRATEGIES
BETTER
SOLUTIONS
IMPROVED
TECHNOLOGIES
[ STRAP ] [ ABMs ] [ ENGINEERING ]
SOLUTION
IMPROVEMENTS
[ CAPITAL DELIVERY]
Innovation is ‘delivered’ across the project / solution lifecycle
EFFICIENCIES
[ ENGINEERING ]
FCO
EPO
WATER
ACT
INNOVATION
Innovation and
standardisation ?
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Innovation and Standards are complimentary not conflicting and each bring benefits …
Standards = Exploitation of knowledge Programme efficiency (not reinventing the wheel), benefitting from lessons learnt
Innovation = Exploration of knowledge new ideas; better, faster cheaper solutions, improvements in standards
Agile and Knowledge
Management
APM Knowledge SIG
Webinar 23rd February 2016
Adrian Malone
Group Head of Knowledge Management and
Collaboration
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Agile / lean thinking – some key principles
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Focus on behaviour and changing culture
• Bold and experimental
• Minimum Viable Product (MVP) - testing hypothesis
• Use of ‘fail fast’ and pivot
• Short bursts of focussed effort (sprints) co-ordinated by scrum master
• Daily stand-up meetings and retrospectives
Having the customer ‘in the room’
• Use of personas
• Early testing and feedback
• Product Owner prioritises the work (backlog)
The future is already here — it's
just not very evenly distributed.
William Gibson
Future Work Skills 2020
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Things are getting more complex…
Joining the dots…
Digital Disruption: agile + lean thinking
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Implications
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“The traditional way in organizations is to look five years ahead and make plans for
the next year… we should think like farmers: look 20 years ahead and plan only for
the next day. One must look far out to decide which… crops to grow… but it makes
no sense to plan at the beginning of the year the precise date for harvest...a farmer
who would stick rigidly to plan, instead of sensing and adjusting to reality would
quickly grow hungry.” Laloux: The Antifragile Organisation
Implications
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"Conventional initiatives are like the more familiar Trojan Horse. Big, lumbering, slow
moving. It takes a lot of people to move it and it is very hard to get it to change direction
without a lot of effort.
"As we deployed low cost small tools and kicked off little initiatives at the BBC we
began to describe our approach as deploying Trojan Mice, a metaphor borrowed from
British consultant Peter Fryer.
"Set up small, unobtrusive inexpensive and autonomous tools and practices set them
running and cajole and nudge them until they begin to work out where to go and why.”
Euan Semple: Organisations Don’t Tweet, People Do
Observations
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• Importance of keeping the customer in the room and responsible for
prioritisation
• Incremental change - ‘Trojan Mice’
• Agile is not ‘fast and without rules’ - there is structure and robust
prioritisation is needed
Thank You
Adrian Malone
@adrianmalone
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How social collaboration tools changed the way we share in the public sector
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When you do a search online for help you will end up in a forum or online community as they have been around since the start of the internet
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Raise your profile
Discover knowledge to help your job
Connect with people like you
Save time and money
Generate ideas to drive improvement
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75% of businesses say online collaboration tools will be “important” or “somewhat important” to their business during the next 12 months. Clinked.com
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Blending organisation formal knowledge with
people’s informal knowledge
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“Knowledge Hub has sparked innovation and brought together a community that care about the same things, meaning wider opportunities are available.” Kirklees Council “Using the Planning Advisory Service (PAS) group forum would save you money if you were going elsewhere to pay for this expertise. “ Taunton Deane Borough Council “Knowledge Hub is niche. It’s there for the work that I do allowing me to connect with people up and down the country.” Broadland District Council
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