Ok, so we all know making power point presentations and either presenting them or sharing them via email is one way to do it. What are other ways in which you have seen it work well?

Best,
Diego

Do you have a company wiki? This is the best way I've found in the past.

Thanks Tim. We do. The challenge with the Wiki, and the same challenge could be faced by presentation, is that it requires other folks to go in and read/participate. But yes, it is an interesting alternative.

In our agency (and our Invention subgroup) at the end of every project we upload the final deck to an Evernote that everyone has access to. It's a bit easier than a server and e-mail because there's in-line preview, and tagging can bring up all content related to a specific client or project (rather than searching through folders or making the right queries).

We also have a built in feedback system we call Cabal (which is sort of like a macro scrum checkin for our group of 5). Every Monday we have a morning meeting booked out. During this time we share the latest work with each other and ask for input and feedback (so we can get different thinking across clients and projects).

Thank you Rachel. I have been using Evernote, but as a personal tool, not for sharing. I will give it a try =>

Seems like it's easy to conflate sharing a document with sharing findings. I've got a number of best practices I found in observing my clients and in researching internal research champions that I've written up at slideshare.net

Thank you Steve. The slides are great. The cultural aspect certainly plays a significant role. A company culture that sees research, design and business strategy as separate make it more difficult not only to share findings, but for findings to influence decisions. Cheers, Diego

Steve is right. Don't confuse sharing documents with sharing knowledge.

The best way to share the knowledge gleaned from research is to have everyone participate in the research, even partially. Sharing the research after the fact makes it much more difficult.

If you want people to know how great a meal tastes, they have to taste it. No amount of explaining how yummy the food was will make them understand how yummy it actually was.

My recommendation: Don't let anyone know about the research unless they participate. I know that's radical, but maybe it's the only way to ensure they get the full value?

Great analogy. Thank you Jared.

What you are proposed is indeed radical, but I think just suggesting it may drive the point of the importance of being there.

Best,
Diego