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'''What incentives can help encourage sharing knowledge?'''

Formal incentives

    * Incorporate sharing in personnel competencies
    * Organise lunch presentations
    * Create an inventory on what people want to be asked about
    * "Send" people to conferences and ask for reports on the meetings
    * Reward people for ideas that are picked up by others


In general these aspect can be part of a personal development plan or personal commitment statement. Stimulate people to write down what they want to achieve in a coming period; for example 'publish and update their curriculum vitae on intranet' or 'visit two partner organisations' or 'mentor new personnel' or 'do a lunch presentation'. Most formal incentives can be organised by a HRM department.

Informal incentives

    * Recognition / awards
    * Allow people to publish stories (success and failure)
    * Organise exhibition fairs / showcasing
    * Invite people to talk about their work / write about their work in internal media
    * Stimulate people to take part in communities of practice
    * Organise happy hours
    * Invite all personnel to contribute to a new year plan for the organisation

Other

    * Allow self-organisation outside the hierarchy; allocate time for this
    * Make sure management supports the idea of sharing knowledge
    * Time spent on sharing must be recognised as legitimate by management / peers
    * Stress the potential return of investment
    * Centralise the canteen / coffee machines / water coolers / library
    * Organise flexible workplace; get people out of their 'cubicles' or relocate people now and then
    * Make management think about the concepts for a 'knowledge friendly organisation'