After the build-up in prior posts about the Annual Conference of the Special Libraries Association (SLA) – held in Philadelphia last month – a bit of follow-up is appropriate. I won’t report on the entire conference, but I’m happy to share a few comments about some of the activities. Perhaps this brief post will be of …
Corporate Intranet = “Corporate KM System”?
Why not? As is often the case in our knowledge-sharing community, this post is inspired by a recent query on LinkedIn. This one was posted on LinkedIn’s Knowledge Management Group, from Aprill Allen: “What are your thoughts on intranets as a platform for knowledge management? No fancy SaaS or software, just an internal website. I …
The New KM: Advance Notice and Podcast
For a couple of years now, I’ve been playing around with some pretty important changes I’ve observed in the overall KM/knowledge services/knowledge strategy picture. Clients and colleagues are doing things differently than they were a few years ago, and I’m watching with considerable interest what’s happening here. And it’s an appropriate time to be thinking …
KM/Knowledge Services: Positional Advantage and Special Capabilities
In a previous post discussing the value of testing organizational strategy and the implementation and maintenance of corporate knowledge strategy, I invited readers to look at “Thinking about Strategy,” an article in The McKinsey Quarterly Monthly Newsletter. In the article, describing “tests” for the company’s knowledge strategy, one such test asks if the strategy in …
The New KM: A Personal View
From my perspective, and based on my observations as I move about the knowledge services community, the attributes of the new KM are becoming clear. Whether I’m working with clients or participating in discussions about KM and knowledge services (including quite a lot of just chatting and general conversation with pals and professional colleagues), there …
