Abstract: Nowadays, an increasing number of organizations hire knowledge leaders to create and maintain a knowledge management environment. However, the critical issues these individuals face are very poorly defined in today’s academic literature. Using a web-based Delphi method, this study is the first to reach a worldwide consensus on knowledge leaders’ critical issues. These
Working Papers
Working papers relevant to Knowledge Management education and the Knowledge Management career profile
Study and Framework of Chief Knowledge Officer Effectiveness
Abstract: The existing literature on Chief Knowledge Officers (CKOs) focuses on individual characteristics and organizational context but fails to convincingly address the issue of process dynamics in terms of effective and ineffective CKO moves and strategies. In order to address this gap we review propositions from the management fashion, diffusion of innovations and issue
Knowledge Champions in Textile & Clothing Business Labs
Abstract: This deliverable describes the efforts provided and the results obtained within the first project year of TCBL (July 2015 to June 2016) related to the management of knowledge relevant for the T&C industry in the so-called Knowledge Spaces (KS). Work has been done mainly in the framework of WP2 “Knowledge Exchange”, in particular
Knowledge Organization Competencies Project
Abstract: Matt Moore and Patrick Lambe developed a draft competency framework for knowledge organization professionals in support of the inaugural “Innovations in Knowledge Organization” conference held in Singapore in June 2015. With the support of ISKO we then tested this framework within the larger professional community through a global survey attracting almost 150 responses
The Chief Knowledge Officer has a key role!
Abstract: The subject of intellectual capital has been discussed by many organizations, and defined by some. Yet very few individuals understand intellectual capital, and almost no one has been able, formally at least, to put a value on it. That’s why knowledge management (KM)–how an organization makes use of its intellectual capital–is one of