Abstract: Ten years ago, the degree programme Information Studies (IB) at the University of Applied Sciences, Burgenland was founded following two years of preparation. It certainly is informative and necessary to look at the history of the programme but it is also vital to take a look in retrospective in order to see how
Publications
Books, articles, and press releases relevant to Knowledge Management education and the KM career path
Titelthema ‘Wissensmanager’ in ‘wissensmanagement – Das Magazin…’
Abstract: At a time in 2005 and 2014, the German magazine ‘wissensmanagement – das Magazin für Führungskräfte’ has published lead topic sections on the job profile of the knowledge manager (German: Wissensmanager). Both section headlines associate the knowledge manager with an “unknown being”. Would this change in the mid-2020s?
JDN Dossier ‘Métier: Knowledge Manager’
Abstract: Comment est-on amené, dans l’entreprise, à exercer des missions de gestion des connaissances ? Quels sont les qualités requises ? Existe-t-il des formations ? Comment la fonction va-t-elle évoluer ? Le point sur un métier en devenir. TEMOIGNAGES: Jean-François Ballay (EDF-GDF) : “Plutôt
Role of the chief knowledge officer
Abstract: In many large organizations, and some small ones, a new corporate executive is emerging — the chief knowledge officer. Companies are creating the position to initiate, drive, and coordinate knowledge management programs. We have studied twenty chief knowledge officers (CKOs) in North America and Europe both to understand their roles and to gain
U.K. Government Knowledge & Information Management Professional Skills Framework
Abstract: The GKIM Professional Skills Framework has been developed to support the delivery of the recommendations in ‘Information matters: building government’s capability in managing knowledge and information’. The framework has been approved and endorsed by the Knowledge Council. The GKIM Professional Skills Framework provides government with a common language to describe