Why Knowledge Cafés Can Be Valuable to Organisations Peter Sharp (2019)

This paper discusses research into the knowledge café technique conducted over the last 10 years. It also summarises knowledge sharing techniques similar to knowledge cafés and assesses some of the advantages and disadvantages of these techniques.

Abstract

This paper discusses research into the knowledge café technique conducted over the last 10 years. The paper summarises knowledge sharing techniques similar to knowledge cafes and assesses some of the advantages and disadvantages of these techniques.

The research builds on some early literature that identifies some of the advantages of the knowledge café approach. Respondents’ feedback in this research confirms that the respondents who participated in the knowledge cafes with this researcher valued their experiences for a wide variety of reasons.

This paper identifies and categorises these reasons using key verbs (in order of frequency of mention) as sharing, creating/solving, enjoying, identifying, interest, connecting, learning, and changing.

Author

Peter Sharp

Paper

• Why Knowledge Cafés can be valuable to organisations