The third type of knowledge professional I’ve identified is the organizational or corporate knowledge strategist, the employee whose work is that generally thought of as the management of knowledge services. With knowledge services usually defined – as noted in earlier posts on this subject – as the convergence of information management, KM, and strategic learning, or, perhaps better …
“Same Institution, Changing Culture, Different Economic Context, Different Set of Players….”
Reviewing a few recent client assignments, I find myself intrigued when we get to speaking about what works and what doesn’t work. I’m also stimulated by comments offered in response to a previous SMR post about Sharing Techniques from the Development Community (which itself was inspired by Ian Thorpe’s Learning as Part of the Brand). As a result, …
KM Education Forum: Educators Seek Consensus at First Annual Summit
On May 5-6, 2011, the Knowledge Management Education Forum (KMEF) brought together some 75 educators in the field of knowledge management (KM) to share their thoughts about how KM is taught and how students learn KM. This First Annual KMEF Summit was held on the campus of George Washington University in Washington, DC. An initiative …
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 …
Pakistani Floods: KM/Knowledge Services at Work
Knowledge sharing is critical in disaster relief programs and post-disaster reconstruction and development. As learned in recent major relief activities (e.g., the Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004, Hurricanes Katrina and Rita in New Orleans in 2005, Haiti on 12 January of this year), the whole success of putting life back together for victims of natural …
