Abstract: Recent research undertaken within the UK construction industry has revealed a growth in the appointment of knowledge management specialists in response to two principal drivers: the UK government’s prerequisite to achieve industry-wide improvements and the desire of individual organisations to seek competitive advantage. Interviews with twenty knowledge management specialists from across the construction
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Fähigkeiten und Kompetenzen für den Wissensmanager des 21. Jahrhunderts
Zusammenfassung: In diesem Beitrag wird die Diskussion um Inhalte und Werkzeuge der Kompetenzentwicklung im Wissensmanagement dargestellt. Eine Darstellung der informationswissenschaftlichen Fachdiskussion zur Entwicklung von Kompetenzrahmen im bibliothekarischen Aufgabenbereich der Information Literacy Education erläutert das Konzept des Kompetenzrahmens und stellt sein Potenzial für die Qualitätssicherung von Ausbildung und beruflicher Weiterbildung dar. Schlagwörter:
Sustainability in the Information & Knowledge Management Curriculum
Abstract: The study aims to answer the research question of how to integrate sustainability into information and knowledge management curriculum and course design, and what kind of opportunities and challenges relate to this curriculum development. The empirical study was conducted in the Finnish university that holds the Degree Programme in Information and Knowledge Management.
Knowledge management librarians @ International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM)
Abstract: In this paper, we examine the roles and responsibilities of Knowledge Management (KM) librarians in a University and outline the skills and knowledge to illuminate and maximize the possibilities of the position, to provide new content in new mediums to an increasingly discerning user community. This relatively new position is being created as
Types of Knowledge Brokers: An Integrative Framework
Abstract: The goal of the present paper is to advance the comprehension of knowledge brokerage by integrating various streams of research into an integrated conceptual framework. We identify and build upon two main streams of literature: the first views knowledge brokers primarily as facilitators of knowledge transfer, and the second considers knowledge brokers as