Abstract: The newly formed Hong Kong Knowledge Management Society (HKKMS) is a professional body for managers and professionals, and serves the growing community of knowledge management practitioners. Started as an independent and informal network of professionals three years ago as the Hong Kong Knowledge Management Forum, the network attracted senior managers from
Chief Knowledge Officer (CKO) – Evangelist, juggler, facilitator
Abstract: Evangelist, juggler, facilitator–the chief knowledge officer is becoming indispensable. Once a company embraces the concept of knowledge management, its top executives must decide how to implement their KM program and how to convince employees that KM is not simply about adding profits but can strengthen the company and help everyone
Knowledge Economy Competencies
Abstract: Pressures to increase the role of information and knowledge in national economies have provoked a wide-ranging debate about what kinds of competencies young people and adults now need. The workforce is “upskilling”, both in terms of the average educational level of workers and the types of job that they are performing. White-collar,
Knowledge Champion’s Legacy
Abstract: Evangelist, juggler, facilitator–the chief knowledge officer is becoming indispensable. Once a company embraces the concept of knowledge management, its top executives must decide how to implement their KM program and how to convince employees that KM is not simply about adding profits but can strengthen the company and help everyone
Trends creating the Knowledge Manager of the Future
Abstract: The role of the manager as merely an overseer of workers is an artifact of the Industrial Age paradigm, no longer appropriate to the Knowledge Age. Increasingly, middle managers’ heads are on the chopping blocks of budget-tightening corporations, and those who fail to transform themselves into “player/coaches” will become obsolete, suggests Thomas H.