Because You Need to Know – Ana Neves

This podcast is part of the Because You Need to Know series from Pioneer Knowledge Services. See also: Because You Need to Know – Ana Neves (2021) and Because You Need to Know – Ana Neves and Jaap Linssen (2022).

Ana Neves is the founder and managing director of Knowman, a consulting company which provides strategic guidance and support to organisations and communities keen to improve their operation through a better use of knowledge. She narrows the gap between knowledge management, internal communication and collaboration, focusing on processes, culture and tools.

Past experience includes: Senior Consultant at Headshift, Knowledge Network Manager in agencies of the British Department of Health, and Cultural Change Manager at a large British bank. She co-edited two books on knowledge management.

She is the organiser of Social Now, a very unique conference which applies many KM principles and techniques to offer participants a rich learning experience focused on the use of enterprise social tools that improve knowledge sharing, retention, collaboration and internal communications.

Ana coordinates the CivicTech work group at APDSI (Portuguese Association for the Promotion and Development of the Information Society).

In 2001 she created KMOL, a website dedicated to knowledge management and organisational learning in Portuguese language.