Abstract: A few years ago in Canberra’s Public Sector Informant I wrote an article called ‘The ideal knowledge manager’. In it I addressed the challenge of finding staff able to work as knowledge managers or as part of a KM team. I suggested then that librarians and information professionals had a head start in
Knowledge Management roles and responsibilities
Knowledge Facilitators in Pharma
Abstract: It is commonplace today to make claims that we are living in a knowledge-based, postindustrial society (Teece, 2000). In the knowledge society, the ability to make good use of abstract, codified, and symbol-based information serves as a major production factor. Such ability to make use of information is generally referred to as knowledge
Chief knowledge officer (CKO) provides leadership
Abstract: The chief knowledge officer (CKO) provides leadership as a technologist and as a shaper of organizational culture and information exchange. Through a review of the literature, the CKO role is explored by comparing and contrasting five sources. As more and more organizations use competency models to select, evaluate and develop their knowledge manager,
Culture, Leadership, and Chief Knowledge Officers (CKOs)
Abstract: Organizational culture, organizational leadership, and Chief Knowledge Officers (CKOs) each play important roles in overcoming human barriers associated with knowledge creation, transfer and sharing. This paper examines three key components of organizational culture: cooperative involvement, trust and incentives. In addition, the impact of organizational leadership on knowledge management as well as the roles
Chief Knowledge Officer’s ethical challenges
Abstract: Since the development and the introduction of the knowledge economy Knowledge Management has become an important scientific concept and many disciplines have laid some claims on it. As a re-discovery of the use of knowledge in an economic way to gain a competitive advantage in business it resides mostly in commerce and industry.