Abstract: While agencies begin to embrace the concept of knowledge management to improve federal employees’ access to information, observers in and out of government disagree on the role of the chief knowledge officer, a position that has been created to lead the charge into this new territory. In the past month,
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Knowledge leaders: a new breed of manager
Abstract: With all the fanfare of a newly sanctioned extreme sport on ESPN, knowledge management has captured the attention of executives throughout the global corporate arena. Those who are succeeding have observed firsthand that knowledge management is much more than an amalgamation of technologies. In contrast, the one thing that frequently distinguishes knowledge management
Business Librarian’s Changing Role
Abstract: No longer just researchers for hire, today’s information specialists are active players in corporate KM. The corporate library has long been a backwater of modern business—an underused service department offering research assistance, reference information and historical archives. But now, mushrooming technological capabilities coupled with insatiable business needs for information are
Librarian and Information Professional as Knowledge Navigator
Abstract: The new Kowledge Economy is a period of rapid change-a paradim shift-for librarians. Rory Chase discusses why it can be viewed as either the beginning of a new golden age for the profession, or the point when librarians became marginalized, and perhaps made irrelevant, by the rapid advances in digital computer and telecommunication
Who Is This Chief Knowledge Officer (CKO) Anyway?
Full text author » Angus Kidman: Who Is This CKO Anyway? Corporate IT (Info Store), August 1998 Copyright © Angus