Published Research Paper by PM World Journal: The Knowledge Cafe: Caffeinated Culture, Learning Agility in a Project Economy
By 2030, 76 million baby boomers will walk out of our organizations, taking decades of intellectual capital with them. Hyper-job mobility has a great loss of knowledge cost (Knowledge Risk) associated with it. Gallup estimates that millennial’s turnover alone costs the US economy $30.5 billion annually. Learning agility, versatility, feedback, making sense of our experience, and collaboration meet at the café and are woven into the fabric of high-performing organizations—these should not be cumbersome, but as simple as walking into a corner café. The Knowledge Café (Café) is an intelligent knowledge conversation. Conversations are like ping-pong games, but how do we get people to go bowling? The café is a learning agility mindset and a space for creating the right environment for successful knowledge management. Fact: you can’t force people to share their knowledge. So, you have to create the right knowledge environment—in a café—where knowledge workers are incentivized for a free exchange of knowledge and rejuvenated. Knowledge café construct can unleash a knowledge culture, learning agility in today’s project
