Full text from publisher » n.a.: First-Ever “Knowledge Professorship” Created. Haas in the News, May 19, 1997 Copyright © Haas School of Business, University of California at Berkeley
New breed of senior manager responsible for intellectual capital
Abstract: Vanessa Houlder reports on a new breed of senior manager responsible for intellectual capital. Managers have access today to more information than they could have ever dreamed of years ago. They can call up Web pages on the Internet, they can tap into databases and they can call on
Variety of titles: chief information, chief learning, and chief knowledge officers
Abstract: The need to manage what Hubert St. Onge, Director of Organizational Learning for Canadian Imperial Bank Corporation, describes as a firm’s intellectual capital, “the sum of human, structural, and customer capital,” has created opportunities for a new breed of executives skilled in leveraging valuable organizational knowledge. A variety of titles
Founding of the International Society for Knowledge Organization (ISKO)
Abstract: Yes, on this very day of July 22nd, 1989, a group of German and non-German members of the German Society for Classification founded the International Society for Knowledge Organisation (ISKO) at the Intercity Restaurant of Frankfurt’s central Railway Station… The Society is meant to unite nationally and internationally personal and institutional