Abstract: With the lofty title of international chief knowledge officer, you’d think Rod McKay was ruling a global empire or traversing the world in a corporate jet. It’s not that glamorous. The Lethbridge, Alta., native does travel a lot, but on regular airlines. He often finds himself making late-night, work-related telephone
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Value of internal knowledge infomediaries
Abstract: Businesses are discovering the value of internal infomediaries. The disjunction between company employees and company knowledge hasn’t always been so acute. A business is, after all, a community of sorts, and every community has librarians, chroniclers, sages and gossips. But as the speed of business has accelerated, the tolerance for
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
Nine Knowledge Management Career Search Tips
Abstract: If you were seeking a career in “knowledge management,” or KM, where would you go? Whom would you talk to? I sort of collided with my current job. Happy accident that it was, I had not been actively seeking a position in a company specializing in knowledge management. But if
New Certificate in Knowledge Management @ Dominican University
Abstract: The idea that knowledge can be managed is fundamental to the related notions of the knowledge-based business, the learning enterprise and the management of intellectual capital. The recent interest in these overlapping concepts reflects important phenomena that enterprises have to deal with, such as perceptions of increased competition, rates of change and market