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,
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Rise of the Knowledge Evangelist
Abstract: Regardless of whether you like Knowledge Management it or loathe it, if you’re interested in being competitive in the information economy, you can’t ignore it. An increasing number of companies are turning to knowledge management specialists to leverage their enterprise’s intellectual capital. The CKO, or chief knowledge officer, is the most visible of
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