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Knowledge Management roles and responsibilities
Appointing a Chief Knowledge Officer (CKO)?
Abstract: The issue tends to polarize. Appointing a CKO is now considered a prudent and foresighted move or a strange and ridiculous one — depending on who you ask. Some of us, however, are deeply and passionately….ambivalent. While the Economist notes that CKO is the “trendiest job in business at the
Chief Knowledge Officer – Managing an enterprise’s strategic information
Abstract: Managing an enterprise’s strategic information Big companies are noticing that employees who keep up on what’s up often gain an edge, and are creating a new top-rank position to help that happen. Chief knowledge officers, whether in title or duty only, are in charge of managing institutional
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