Abstract: Knowledge champions (otherwise known as KM Champions, Knowledge Activists, Knowledge Stewards, Knowledge Coordinators, KM Reps) perform an important role in distributing your KM messages and activities consistently across an organisation. In the earlier KM literature KM Champions were envisaged as senior level activists promoting KM at a strategic level. Very little guidance exists
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Blog articles relevant to Knowledge Management education and the Knowledge Management career profile
Knowledge Management Competencies: Is Certification The Way To Go?
Abstract: How does a knowledge manager acquire the appropriate competencies in a professional, structured way? Knowledge management novices often look to certification programmes to give the necessary assurance, and there is no shortage of providers to step up to the mark. But to evaluate the merits of certification programmes, we really need to have
Skills for Knowledge Management Leaders
Abstract: …In the ideal world, CKOs or KM Directors should have as many of the required skills below as possible. The five core areas of required skills should include: 1. Knowledge Management Experience 2. Learning Industry Experience 3. Technology Project Management 4. Matrix Management Skills 5. Industry
Need for a Knowledge Management Body of Knowledge (KMBOK)
Abstract: In 1994, more than 30 commercial consultants and senior government employees participated in an important US Department of Defense (DOD) study. The study determined how to substantially improve DoD’s performance on a major strategic initiative, which at the time was Business Process Reengineering (BPR). Their valuable (but almost self-evident) results applied to all
Money, Testosterone and Knowledge Management
Abstract: This article chronicles an acrimonious schism in the KM association KM Pro in late 2004, and puts it into the context of other KM association schisms in the USA during the late nineties. I wrote this article originally for the Global Knowledge Review in early 2005. They decided not to publish it after