At KM Magazine, Judith Lamont writes that "Law firms reinvent KM." The article describes KM initiatives at a number of different approaches to doing knowledge management, most of which have technology as important components.
All in knowledge management
At KM Magazine, Judith Lamont writes that "Law firms reinvent KM." The article describes KM initiatives at a number of different approaches to doing knowledge management, most of which have technology as important components.
Duane McCollum, the information auditor, stumbled upon two interesting references about information disasters and the cost of them in his "Great Information Disasters?" An additional information "disaster" in my mind is that people get lost in analyzing the data and lose sight of the goal.
Mart T found an interesting article about Belgium's Kafka red-tape cutting initiative. It's already saved $281 million. And it looks a little like KM.
Arnie Zullow is a MLS student in the UIUC distance education program, and he interviewed me as part of his interest in knowledge management.
Ron Friedmann at Strategic Legal Technology mentions some (legal) KM Trends that result from a recent presentation he did with Tania Daniels. I particularly like the comments about baking KM into the business.
Michael Pokocky's manifesto proposal at ChangeThis: Building The New Knowledge Web Manifesto.
Kevin Desouza of The Engaged Enterprise will present on "Plug-n-Play Knowledge Management" at the July 12th meeting of KM Chicago.
Michael McLaughlin writes "The Worst Thing About Best Practices." In isolation, I absolutely agree with McLaughlin. However, if they are part of an intelligent process, such as he suggests at the end of the article, best practices can be quite helpful.
That's my name listed as the chair for the session Barry describes here: Knowledge Management in Pharmaceutical Manufacturing - optimising efficencies in knowledge transfer.
In Gerry McGovern's current New Thinking newsletter/blog, he has an interesting argument that there is "No such thing as knowledge worker." Some of his thinking coincides with personal knowledge management as well.
Bruce MacEwen has some interesting thoughts about corporate expertise locators and an idea that companies might actually know more than they think about their experts.
"Designing sticky knowledge networks" by Bush and Tiwana looks at the importance of reputation, relationship capital and personalization on the continued use of corporate knowledge networks.