Delivering a keynote address next week to an international conference on Transformational Research for Sustainable Development. Have been asked to supply a little history about knowledge services, and happy to do so. Now that SMR International is about to observe the 10th year since we introduced the concept (at least we think we did – …
Archives for September 2010
Change: The Basics
Peter Drucker advised that in order to survive, companies need to: “innovate or die.” He also wrote that, “Entrepreneurs see change as the norm and as healthy. Usually, they do not bring about the change themselves. But . . . the entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.” …
KM/Knowledge Services in Practice: Specialized Libraries in Developing Countries
Stephen Kizza’s excellent article, providing a refreshing update on the state of specialized libraries in non-Western countries, and particularly in developing countries, has been published in Information Outlook. Thanks to the good efforts of Dennie Heye of Shell Oil in The Hague, Joyce Fedeczko and Marlene Vogelsang and the other leaders of SLA’s Petroleum and …
Pakistan Flooding/Knowledge Services: An Analysis
SMR’s August 26th post described the work of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-HABITAT) in helping Pakistanis, as the flood disaster moves into the post-disaster recovery phase. Pakistani Floods: KM/Knowledge Services at Work provides strategic knowledge managers with a dramatic example of how KM/knowledge services – as a management or functional discipline – comes …