MOOK: The Knowledge Management method applied to a GENIV project. The continuation of a successful story

Abstract

From 2010 to 2019, the French Alternatives Energies and Atomic Energy Commission realized the Basic Design of a prototype Sodium Fast Reactor. One year before the term of its Basic Design phase, a national strategical review, concluded that the perspective of industrial deployment of Fast Reactors was getting more distant in time. The ASTRID project stopped at the end of 2019 at its Basic Design phase. Quickly the question was raised on the Knowledge Management (KM) and Know-How capitalization of the amount of studies and results realized during ten years. The challenge was to implement this KM process in less than one year, before the project team definitive split.

It was created an innovative KM method applied to the ASTRID project, based on a series of interviews and video recordings, transformed into some New KM tools called “MOOK” (Management of Organized Online Knowledge). All these MOOKs, are inter-connected and linked into the ASTRID Product Breakdown Structure, for a comprehensive mapping of the project. The ASTRID project team has realized an easy-to-use “GPS” tool to keep the ASTRID history, context, knowledge and know-how for years.

Beyond the presentation of this method, it will be explained the major interest of the MOOK to realize efficiently knowledge capitalization. We presents how this method has been extended to other cases. We will also recall the successful story of MOOK which has won in 2021 two significant awards in “Skills and Knowledge Management” domain.