Abstract: Poet and writer, Khalil Gibran once said, “A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle”. How true. However, we would like to take this a little further by saying that starting an initiative to make this knowledge ‘act’ is only half the job. The other half
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Chief Knowledge Officer as Knowledge Champion
Abstract: MAYBE YOU FIRST HEARD ABOUT IT on the elevator, during a business lunch or on the golf course. Whatever the venue, at some point in the past few years you heard the words knowledge management (KM). And there’s a good chance your company has since come to understand the necessity of transforming information
Study: What knowledge managers really do
Abstract: The advent of information technology has generated not only interest in how to acquire, store and “mine” data, but also how to manage knowledge. Yet, there is still considerable confusion and a lack of understanding of what today’s knowledge managers really do. Continuing a stream of previous research on the behavior activities of
Are librarians the ultimate knowledge managers?
Abstract: Librarians are the ultimate knowledge managers. We all know that. After all, haven’t we been the custodians of documented knowledge for centuries? Who could possibly do it better than us? Well, then why aren’t people knocking down our doors, begging us to be the knowledge managers of the organisation? Are they just ignorant
Knowledge Roles: The Chief Knowledge Officer and Beyond
Abstract: Knowledge management is all the rage. It has replaced reengineering as the hot conference topic of the day. And it’s not just being discussed-it’s actually being done. Hewlett-Packard unveiled more than 20 initiatives to manage knowledge at a recent workshop. In the past couple