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Columbia University in the City of New York (Columbia University)

Universities, Colleges | Knowledge Management education & training worldwide

Columbia University in the City of New York (Columbia University or Columbia), formerly the Columbia College and the King’s College, offers the following Knowledge Management education and training

Organizational knowledge leadership

Purpose: Knowledge management as a key top executive function has not been sufficiently explored in the leadership literature. This study seeks to examine the role of top executives in knowledge management by first building theoretical hypotheses and subsequently testing them. Hypotheses are developed through the integration of the knowledge management and leadership literatures

Knowledge Management Champion Guidelines

Weblogs | Knowledge Management education & training worldwide

Abstract: Knowledge champions (otherwise known as KM Champions, Knowledge Activists, Knowledge Stewards, Knowledge Coordinators, KM Reps) perform an important role in distributing your KM messages and activities consistently across an organisation. In the earlier KM literature KM Champions were envisaged as senior level activists promoting KM at a strategic level. Very little guidance exists

Rules for leaders of knowledge citizens

Abstract: In 1909, Sam Walter Foss, a librarian at the Somerville Public Library in Massachusetts, wrote a paper entitled ‘Some cardinal principals of librarian’s work’. Interestingly, Foss emphasized and encouraged the role of the librarian to be a fundamentally social and people-oriented character as opposed to a shy and retiring ‘book lover’. This