Knowledge Management and Learning

Knowledge Management and Learning
Updated: 19 March 2010

Knowledge, and its transformation to meaningful action, is crucial to fighting poverty. Guided by its Knowledge Management Action Plan 2009-2011, ADB works to become a learning institution and a primary source of development knowledge in Asia and the Pacific.

This site highlights ADB's efforts to harness knowledge from its operations and shares the results of those efforts.

Harnessing Creativity and Innovation in the Workplace

Creativity plays a critical role in the innovation process, and innovation that markets value is a creator and sustainer of performance and change. In organizations, stimulants and obstacles to creativity drive or impede enterprise.

Knowledge Tools

	Drawing Learning Charters [ PDF: 430kb \| 5 pages ] Learning is the best way to meet the challenges of the time. Learning charters demonstrate commitment and serve as a waymark to guide, monitor, and evaluate progress.
	Staff Profile Pages [ PDF 587 KB \| 4 pages ] An organization can leverage expert knowledge if it can locate said expertise. Staff profile pages help by serving as dynamic, adaptive repositories of information about the knowledge, skills, experience, and interests of people.
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Field Lessons

	Beyond Emergency Responses: Ensuring the Legacy of Market-Based Microfinance Expansion The Microfinance Innovation Fund was a prominent feature of the Earthquake and Tsunami Emergency Support Project in Indonesia and is set to continue successful fund operations long after project completion.
	Improving Regional Cooperation in Energy Today Approaches to regional energy cooperation depend on subregional resources, the market mix, and associated interests. ADB's organizational setup can be adjusted to drive this cooperation.
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What's New

Crafting a Knowledge Management Results Framework [ PDF: 546kb | 11 pages ]
Sparking Social Innovations [ PDF: 560kb | 8 pages ]
Design Thinking [ PDF: 1.74mb | 6 pages ]
Sparking Innovations in Management [ PDF: 560kb | 8 pages ]
Communities of Practice: Passing the Fitness Test [ PDF: 1.5mb | 29 pages ]

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ADB: Reflections and Beyond

This book captures the experiences and memories of ADB alumni, Management, and staff, and provides a personal perspective on dealing with the challenges of development.

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Knowledge Management and Learning