Abstract: New jobs seek to parlay knowledge assets into real business benefits. Chief knowledge officer and chief learning officer are the newest titles hitting many IT organizations. While these jobs cover a broad range of activities in areas such as research, training, and information coordination, most people agree their main objective
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Coming Soon: The Chief Knowledge Officer
Abstract: Some companies are creating room for a chief knowledge officer to manage unstructured information. Many of the companies I work with are starting to seriously address the issue of information and knowledge management. One major step they are taking is to create the post of chief knowledge officer (CKO) or
Educating Knowledge Managers: A Competence-Based Approach
Abstract: The emerging knowledge economy and society bring new challenges to organizations, managers and workers: the accelerating pace of innovation in products, services and processes; the growing importance of work that requires extensive education, experience and judgment; and the escalating complexity of knowledge, which becomes increasingly distributed and changeable, among others. The field of knowledge
Knowledge Champions’ Activities
Abstract: Knowledge champions are Knowledge Management (KM) leadership roles appointed to one person from each department. They report to the central knowledge manager. These people promote, support and communicate knowledge management initiatives within their departments. By combining these activities they help ensure your new KM strategy can have the best possible starting point.
Role of knowledge brokers in Japanese communities of practice
Purpose The purpose of this study is to investigate the role of knowledge brokers in Japanese communities of practice (CoP). This is because if knowledge brokers can connect across boundaries and introduce practices into another CoP, they can contribute by introducing practices as tacit knowledge to another CoP. Design/methodology/approach