The Tool for Sharing Best Practices helps public health professionals by outlining five practical steps to share best practices throughout their organizations. Sharing best practices can help your organization learn from successes, replicate successful programs, and improve outcomes.
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Sharing Best Practices
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Lisa Mwaikambo, MPH
March 30, 2016 1:00 – 2:30 PM ET
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12. KM Approaches to Sharing
Best Practices:
A Tool for Sharing Internal Best Practices
Lisa Mwaikambo, MPH
Program Officer II
Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs
(CCP)
Knowledge for Health (K4Health) Project
13. The essential question:
To reach our goals, does everyone have the
knowledge they need to do their job properly
and effectively?
…If not, how can we fix this situation?
14. Poll Question #4
What is Knowledge Management (KM)?
1. A vague, intellectual exercise that doesn’t
apply to everyone.
2. The art of building websites and databases.
3. A technology solution to an organizational
problem.
4. Something that some folks in your organization
do – mainly those IT geeks or librarians – that isn’t
applicable to my work.
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15. What is Knowledge Management (KM) ?
a) A vague, intellectual exercise that doesn’t apply to
everyone.
b) The art of building websites and databases.
c) A technology solution to an organizational problem.
d) Something that some folks in your organization do –
mainly those IT geeks or librarians – that isn’t
applicable to my work.
e) None of the above.
16. Our definition of KM is…
A systematic process of collecting and
curating knowledge and connecting
people to it so they can act effectively.
17. Analysis
• Situation
analysis
• Stakeholder/
audience
analysis
• KM analysis
Strategic
Design
• Develop
Objectives
• Select KM
Interventions
Evaluation
• Knowledge
• Practice
• Network Characteristics
• KM Capacity
• Quality, Access,
Coverage
• Health System
Strengthening
Monitoring
Reach, Usefulness, Usability, Satisfaction, KM Capacity,
Network Characteristics , Lessons Learned, Best Practices
Knowledge Management: A Systematic Process
Implementation
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Center for Communication Programs (JHUCCP) 2013
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19. WHY Knowledge Management?
• Helps translate tacit knowledge into explicit knowledge
• Addresses information overload, or the problem of
insufficient information
• Reduces time spent looking for quality resources
• Helps organize information so it is easier to find
• Supports knowledge adaptation and translation
• Helps take research to practice – crucial for scale-up
• Improve decision-making and helps with behavior
change
• Reduces program costs, prevents “reinventing the
wheel”
20. Ultimately, knowledge saves lives!
Providing knowledge
to program managers
and health care
providers saves lives.
21. Common Elements of KM and
Best Practices Initiatives
• People
• Processes
• Tools/Platforms/Tec
hnologies
22. Poll Question #5
Which KM Processes are used as part of
best practice initiatives?
1. Knowledge Needs Assessment
2. Knowledge Generation
3. Knowledge Capture
4. Knowledge Synthesis
5. Knowledge Sharing
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23. Poll Question: Answer
Best practices initiatives
involve knowledge
capture and synthesis
(often in the form of
publications and
resources) and knowledge
sharing (through
electronic discussions,
face-to-face meetings,
etc.)
24. Best practice initiatives employ:
Two complementary strategies:
• Producing and disseminating written records,
such as newsletters, reports, and databases
(explicit knowledge)
• Arranging for face-to-face contacts through
meetings, coaching, consulting, communities
of practice, etc. (tacit knowledge)
25. Poll Question #6
What type of KM approaches have you
employed to capture and share best
practices?
1. After Action Reviews
2. Communities of Practice
3. Knowledge Cafes
4. Share Fairs
5. Case Studies
6. Other
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26. Examples of KM Approaches That Are
Used in Best Practice Initiatives
Adapted from: Barnes, S. and Milton, N. 2015. Designing A Successful KM Strategy: A Guide for Knowledge
Management Professionals. Information Today, Inc., Medford, NJ.
27. Key Steps in Identifying & Sharing
Best Practices
1. Look for successes
2. Identify and validate
best practices
3. Document best
practices
4. Create a strategic plan
to share best practices
5. Adapt and apply best
practices
28. Step 1: Look for Successes
• Create the culture and space to intentionally
learn from each other
• Listen to staff
• Identify performance problems or challenges
29. Poll Question #7
Have you ever participated in an After
Action Review?
1. Yes
2. No
3. Not sure
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30. Poll Question: Answer
After Action Review is a simple process used by a team to
capture the lessons learned from past successes and failures,
with the goal of improving future performance. It is an
opportunity for a team to reflect on a project, activity, event
or task so that they can do better the next time. It can also be
employed in the course of a project to learn while doing.
AAR is a form of group reflection; participants review what
was intended, what actually happened, why it happened and
what was learned. One member of the group facilitates,
capturing results on a flip chart or in a document.
31. Step 2: Identify & Validate Practices
• Observe people, sites, and projects that are
producing excellent results
• Conduct focus group discussions and
interviews with top performers
• Identify contextual factors that support
success
• Review existing evidence and service statistics
32. Step 3 & 4: Document & Share
Best Practices
• Work with those involved in the practice
• Write a description
• Create a central repository
33. Step 5: Adapt & Apply
• Bring people together in networks
• Compare settings where the practice was
developed and where it will be applied
• Focus on transferring the idea behind the
practice
• Consider what external factors may need to be
changed to make the situation more
hospitable to the practice
• Monitor the application
35. Additional KM Resources
• Knowledge for Health website:
https://www.k4health.org/topics/knowledge-
management
• Global Health Knowledge Collaborative:
https://www.globalhealthknowledge.org/
• KM eToolkit (includes case studies):
k4health.org/toolkits/km
• KM in Global Health Programs eLearning course:
https://www.globalhealthlearning.org/course/knowled
ge-management-km-global-health-programs-0
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A. Access the Sharing Best Practices Tool.
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Practices Tool.
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The Tool for Sharing Internal Best Practices was produced with funding from the United States Agency for International Development in 2005. Since then, the emphasis has shifted somewhat to the systematic process for effective knowledge sharing and learning to inform better public health outcomes. During this webinar, I will share how we have institutionalized this knowledge management (KM) process and highlight some of the KM approaches for sharing best practices originally mentioned in the Tool.
We believe the answer is through knowledge management.
Ultimately, KM means different things to different people. An organization’s strategic objectives and goals can determine what KM means to that organization and can guide that organization’s definition.
The definitions of KM abound. A recurring theme, though, is that KM is a process and a set of tools and resources that support an organization’s business objectives. As a result, it’s imperative that an organization that is interested in implementing a KM initiative identifies the objectives and goals of it, just like you do with any set of interventions. In this way, KM can be defined in the unique language of that particular organization.
knowledge of what works (which may be identified/labeled as a best practice) must be produced, documented, shared, and used
These benefits of KM mirror the benefits described of sharing best practices in the Tool for Sharing Best Practices.
HOW
We connect program managers and health
workers to the latest health knowledge that
helps them to act effectively.
We work at the global, regional, and country
levels to strengthen capacity of others to get
knowledge into the hands of program
managers and health workers who need it most.
Most KM experts talk about 3 main components of KM: The people, the processes, and the technology.
The “people” are the those who create and share knowledge. Collectively, they comprise the culture that nurtures and encourages knowledge exchange.
The “processes” are the methods used to acquire, create, organize, share, and transfer knowledge.
The “technology” refers to the mechanisms that facilitate knowledge exchange: They store and provide access to data, information, and knowledge created, acquired, organized, and exchanged by individuals in various locations.
Likewise, in order to carry out a best practice initiative you need:
People to facilitate identification and sharing of internal best practices, for example, by training or hiring staff to serve on a best practices team or act as a best practices coordinator;
Processes and tools that are designed to share knowledge through reports, electronic discussions, and face-to-face meetings; and
A commitment to take the time needed to identify, document, and share best practices.
People to facilitate identification and sharing of internal best practices, for example, by training or hiring staff to serve on a best practices team or act as a best practices coordinator;
Processes and tools that are designed to share knowledge through reports, electronic discussions, and face-to-face meetings; and
A commitment to take the time needed to identify, document, and share best practices.
Best practice initiatives generally employ two complementary strategies to share knowledge:
These are examples of ways to capture and share explicit and tacit knowledge – which is ultimately a goal of knowledge management.
Pull/Connect (Asking): Systems, processes, behaviors that support people seeking knowledge from other people. Asking may be one of the most effective ways to transfer knowledge. People we often ask if they need knowledge. For example, many doctors will say they “ask a colleague” if they are looking for information vs. looking up the information in a text book. It is quick, effective, allows for back and forth.
Use approaches and techniques: after-action reviews, peer assists, twinning, study tours, and communities of practice. – AARs and CoPs are highlighted in the Tool for Sharing Internal Best Practices.
Push/collect (Publishing): Systems, processes, behaviors that support people contributing their knowledge to some form of database.
Develop publications and resources: policy briefs, guidelines, journal articles, manuals, job aids, and project reports;
The steps in identifying and sharing best practices largely mirror the implementation phase or processes of the KM cycle.
Institute processes, systems, and tools for learning before, during, and after an intervention.
At K4Health, we regularly employ peer assists, after action reviews, needs assessments, and other KM techniques to look at what is working or had worked and what isn’t working. We also invite other from the organization or other organizations for brown bags and other meetings to share their experience implementing similar interventions in different contexts.
Would you like more information on AARs?
We often collect stories or case studies as part of our observation as well as to provide more context to the information that we gather as part of FGDs and interviews.
Usually, this type of qualitative date is gathered at the beginning of our engagement with a local partner as well as at the mid-way point to adjust our activities if warranted. And it goes without saying that activities should be grounded in evidence.
As I mentioned, we have a standard case study template as well as templates for a variety of other KM approaches that we employ that allow us to easily document our lessons learned.
such as AAR, peer assist, storytelling, fail fair, CoP, NetMap,
Depending on who the audience is for the best practice, will determine the media that we use for documentation purposes – blog, video, case study, guide, etc. – as well as where it is saved and with whom it is shared – whether that is internally and/or externally.
Communities of practice can be a great vehicle for not only identifying best practices but also documenting and sharing them. The Implementing Best Practices (IBP) for Reproductive Health Initiative