All in knowledge management
Mindjack has a writeup after attending KMWorld. He sees KM fading from the marketing, but possibly still working in the background. Is KM becoming a basic competency? Mindjack - Deconstructing Knowledge [The] momentum seems to be dead and buried, if the recent KM World-Intranets Convention in Santa Clara, California (Oct. 14-16)...
In the current AOK STAR Series with Melissie Rumizen, Bill Hall made an excellent contribution to my understanding of the data-information-knowledge issue that gets discussed in KM circles. Fortunately, he also pointed to a web reference of the material from 1998. I've seen some versions of this before - that talk...
I am in the middle of reading The Axemaker's Gift: A Doubled-Edged History of Human Culture by James Burke and Robert Ornstein. I find it an interesting dovetail into my thinking about knowledge mangaement and the concerns we frequently hear about the over-selling of technical solutions to the general issues of...
Referent to Tom Davenport's wrap-up of his knowledge work series for CIO Magazine, "Putting It All Together Again - The New Work Order."
Friday's BloggingWorks workshop focused on how businesses can and are using blogs and blog tools as their primary engine for delivering content to both the public and to internal groups. To me, the biggest aspect of the workshop was the idea that blog tools are a means to an end. As...
Excited Utterances: Why Knowledge Management Isn't Enough In Why Knowledge Management Isn't Enough, Stephen Mayson, consultant and Director for the Centre for Law Firm Management at Nottingham Law School, distinguishes "knowledge" ("recorded know-how")$(Oi.(Be., "recorded bits of paper on which deals and advice have been recorded"$(Ofr(Bom "know-how" in law firms: "Real know-how...
David Skyrme gave a list of common "myths" or mainstream beliefs about knowledge management in the May 2003 I3 Update. While this is a familiar list, it is good to read about them again. I just list the titles, you can read the details within. Knowledge Flows: Mainstream or Myths? Knowledge...
After 75 issues, David Skyrme and Debra Amidon have decided to stop publishing his informative I3 Update / Entovation International News. David closes with thoughts about his own KM odyssey, Debra closes with her own review of the history with Entovation, and they print a set of 75 knowledge nuggets. Some...
Input claims that the U.S. government is going to be spending more money on KM, primarily associated with Homeland Defense. This CIO article hints at the bigger question: All the technology in the world won't fix the differences between the agencies that all share similar information, each with a different view...
Boehringer-Ingelheim, the German pharmaceutical company, has a number of knowledge management projects. The best evidence of ongoing KM activities is that they have a few people with knowledge management titles. The biggest projects that B-I have running in the KM world appear to be associated with collaboration and working with data generated in R&D.
Tom Davenport writes about the new "big thing" in relation to his new book, "What's the Next Big Idea." He promises a number of columns in future issues. I like his focus on knowledge processes.