The subject of this post is Andrew Doughman, a young journalist I met recently in Nairobi. Andrew’s work has made quite an impression on me and some of my friends in the community. Andrew is finishing up his studies at the University of Washington in Seattle, and he has been in Kenya to work as …
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KM/Knowledge Services, Strategic Learning, and HR: Making the Critical Connection
We’re all agreed that a key element in the success of any KM/knowledge services strategy is strategic learning. Indeed, strategic learning is one of the three “legs” (as we often say) of knowledge services, converging with information management and knowledge management to establish corporate knowledge-sharing success. One of management’s biggest challenges, though, is coordinating these …
Knowledge Strategy Development: Lessons Learned
A six-month project to develop knowledge strategy for an international organization has been completed. As with similar assignments relating to knowledge strategy, one is left with both a sense of accomplishment that the big job is finished and a certain sense of sadness that the job is no longer the focus of one’s professional life. …
Knowledge Strategy – Prescriptive or Descriptive?
There is no single approach to knowledge strategy development, and in this particular discipline in the KM/knowledge services arena, there is no such thing as “one size fits all.” Every institution and every functional unit has its own way of dealing with knowledge. The trick is to dig deep enough to find out how the knowledge is to dealt with.
KM/Knowledge Services: This is the Time We’ve Been Waiting For
Good news. KM/knowledge services is now part of the management agenda.