Abstract: Aligning Knowledge Management (KM) with overarching business strategies is considered as important for organizational success and sustainability. But this crucial element is often missing in the implementation and operation of KM. This paper explores the concept of “business alignment” within the context of KM, elaborating its critical role in enhancing collaboration, minimizing errors,
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Sustainability in the Information & Knowledge Management Curriculum
Abstract: The study aims to answer the research question of how to integrate sustainability into information and knowledge management curriculum and course design, and what kind of opportunities and challenges relate to this curriculum development. The empirical study was conducted in the Finnish university that holds the Degree Programme in Information and Knowledge Management.
Knowledge management librarians @ International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM)
Abstract: In this paper, we examine the roles and responsibilities of Knowledge Management (KM) librarians in a University and outline the skills and knowledge to illuminate and maximize the possibilities of the position, to provide new content in new mediums to an increasingly discerning user community. This relatively new position is being created as
Knowledge building in the International Association for Knowledge Management (IAKM)
Abstract: Knowledge building is a social process that is driven by the willingness of people to share their expertise and create new knowledge. Scientific Communities of Practice (CoPs) are communities of professors and researchers whose aim is to foster scientific knowledge generation. In the KM literature, research concerning this kind of CoPs has been
Knowledge Management Education in iSchools
Abstract: The emergence of Knowledge Management (KM) has raised an on-going debate on how it may relate to pre-existing fields and schools of thoughts. The main dispute focuses on whether Library and Information Science (LIS) and KM are distinct fields of specialisation. Whilst one school claims that KM is merely a new name for