Motivational Stories
Motivational story 1
7. Ability to share knowledge and ideas internally within organization
7.1. What is knowledge
(HOW A HOBBY TURNED INTO A PROFITABLE BUSINESS UNIT)
John is a young IT engineering working at one of the offices of a national IT company. One of John’s hobby and passion is a card game played by people from all over the world. The game has a wide range of different types of cards, from the more common to the rare ones, different types of cards launched in different countries and so on. These cards are traded by players and the value of each card can vary. Not only different types of cards have different trading values, but the same type of cards can vary in value.
As a game addicted and an IT expert, John, during his free time, developed an online platform where players from all over the word could buy and sell cards, the value of the cards could be monitored and displayed to users, among others.
When John shared his idea and project with his bosses, the company got immediate interest. However, the project did not fit the scope of operations of the company.
At the end, the company created a new start-up to explore this project, with John as business partner.
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Motivational story 2
7. Ability to share knowledge and ideas internally within organization
7.2. Interaction and sharing
(A PLACE WHERE WE FIND WHAT WE ALL NEED)
Organization PCT is dedicated to the management of an incubator. It started operating with a team of 4 people, each one with a specific job and field of expertise. However, as a small team managing a big infrastructure, there were increasing activities to be managed by all. Each person would produce information and outputs related to the different areas, and all should use the same materials, procedures and follow a line of knowledge construction and storage.
Although, as small team, it was quite easy for knowledge, information and ideas to be shared between all, it would be difficult to follow with the work without knowing, previously, what was the status of the activity or what had been the last update made by any of colleagues. This would be a problem as any person of the team would have to interrupt the colleague work to get an update or could risk important mistakes in situations where the colleague would not be available (e.g., during vacation period).
During a team meeting the problem was discussed and an idea of creating an internal online area were everyone could create and store documents and information was launched. With the IT expert, the area was created and the team started using it successfully. The solution reduced the time wasted by all team members and the work become much more effective.
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