Abstract: For students working towards a Master’s degree in Knowledge Management at California State University, Northridge (CSUN), a key part of the program involves identifying the KM challenges that prove most taxing to today’s practitioners. In this article, two students enrolled on the distance-learning course, Donna Edwards and Jim Wolff, present the findings of
knowledge sharing
Knowledge Managers Share Knowledge!?
Abstract: I’ve had a creeping suspicion for some time that knowledge managers are fine about encouraging others to share knowledge, but that dictum doesn’t apply to them. In my role as President of iKMS I am always trying to get knowledge managers to share, and the ones who do are in the brave minority
Knowledge management and the LIS professions
Abstract: This paper looks at the complex web of interrelationships that is emerging as the library and information professions come to terms with the growing phenomenon of knowledge management. This is manifest at one level in the wider organisational and business context, and at another in the professional and employment spheres. Two of the
Rules for leaders of knowledge citizens
Abstract: In 1909, Sam Walter Foss, a librarian at the Somerville Public Library in Massachusetts, wrote a paper entitled ‘Some cardinal principals of librarian’s work’. Interestingly, Foss emphasized and encouraged the role of the librarian to be a fundamentally social and people-oriented character as opposed to a shy and retiring ‘book lover’. This
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