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
Knowledge management skills needed by line managers
Abstract: New technology and organizational structures are transforming the workplace, but management skills have not yet caught up. Harnessing knowledge and using it as a competitive advantage is one of the key priorities of organizations today. Honing Your Knowledge Skills looks at how to define knowledge working and identifies the practical skills of knowledge
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
Second Comparative Study of Knowledge Creation Conference Report
Abstract: The Second Comparative Study of Knowledge Creation Conference was held in St. Gallen, Switzerland, in June 1998. The conference focused on the development of ideas, concepts and perspectives that advance the theory and practice of knowledge creation. Three conference presentations are highlighted in this review. Keywords: Asea Brown Boveri, Explicit