Collaboration is too important to neglect. Whether managers create a collaborative environment where collaboration “just happens,” or if strategic efforts are made to ensure that people collaborate, it’s now clear that the successful organization is one in which collaboration is a critical building block. Some years ago, Edward M. Marshall – who might have been …
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Kenya: The Newest Land of Opportunity?
Africa has long been a part of the world that worried international leaders, and while enormous strides were made over the last few decades, there continued to be a sort of reticence or quiet reluctance for embracing the business potential the famous (and condescendingly described) “dark continent” had to offer. Bringing Western management methodologies was …
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR): Who’s Doing What? What’s the Strategy Behind the Effort?
A study being undertaken at SMR International seeks to identify and publish steps leading to the development and implementation of a corporate social responsibility strategy. Just as they identify and share the elements of organizational knowledge strategy (and indeed of strategies for many other functions), organizational leaders must identify and examine steps to take to …
News: CCC’s “Beyond the Book” – Specialized Librarianship and KM/Knowledge Services in Africa
GRATITUDE – CONFIDENCE – HOPE The words come from Stephen Kizza, a librarian with the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources in Kampala, Uganda. In his correspondence and writings, Kizza signs off with a phrase that is both poignant and meaningful to strategic knowledge professionals, particularly those dealing with Africa and KM/knowledge services in the …
Advice for a New NGO – or Any Organization – for ICT/KM/Knowledge Services Strategic Learning
SMR International colleagues and clients are aware that Information Africa Organization (IAO) is a new nongovernmental organization (NGO) in Africa. The organization’s focus is on youth, and specifically on strategic learning and training in ICT, KM, and knowledge services skills for African young people. SMR President Guy St. Clair is an IAO volunteer, using the …
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