Abstract: Ready to bring your knowledge management work to the next level? It’s time to bring on a knowledge manager, and we know how to set them up for success. You don’t mean to brag, but your workplace is pretty on track to having a bonafide knowledge-driven culture. You have the
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Working as a Knowledge Manager: Idea and Reality
Abstract: This session will be conducted with some reflections on the experience of working as a knowledge manager, to prompt discussions in breakout rooms on the interaction between a knowledge manager and the organisation for which they work, including useful attributes for a knowledge manager and developing the good management of knowledge within an
Job functions and requirements for knowledge managers in South Africa
Abstract: The study explored the job functions and requirements for knowledge management practitioners through the analysis of job advertisements appearing on 12 major jobsites in South Africa. It aimed to provide vital information that can assist in re-examining knowledge management education in library and information science (LIS) schools in South Africa. A total of
Knowledge Manager Lifespans
Abstract: In 2008 I ran a global survey on knowledge manager professional development and experience. It found that only 29% of knowledge managers had been in their role for more than 4 years, and only 25% were confident of moving on to another KM role. The average “lifespan” among respondents was something like 2.5
Educating Librarians as Information and Knowledge Managers
Abstract: The immense stock of information and knowledge available in the twenty-first century imposed the need for designing a new kind of profession or modifying existing ones, especially the librarian profession, and educate professionals in collecting and disseminating the aforementioned. If the creation of new knowledge is to be understood in terms of Ikujiro