Judy Field, John V. Ganly, and Guy St. Clair were inducted into the SLA Hall of Fame at the 101st Annual Conference of SLA (Special Libraries Association), held recently in New Orleans, LA. Field is Professional in Residence at Wayne State University in Detroit, MI, and Ganly is formerly Assistant Director, Science, Industry, and Business [...]
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 [...]
Want to understand the basics of KM/knowledge services? Curious about the role of knowledge services in today’s workplace? Take a look at this: Knowledge Services and Change Management: Building the Company’s Knowledge Culture [Presentation] For more information about how your company can strengthen knowledge sharing in the workplace and reduce management and transaction costs, contact [...]
A six-month project to develop knowledge strategy for an international organization has been completed. As with similar assignments relating to knowledge strategy, one is left with both a sense of accomplishment that the big job is finished and a certain sense of sadness that the job is no longer the focus of one’s professional life. [...]
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 [...]
Marcie Stone has interviewed and come to know Jeannette Privat, a leading member of the specialized libraries community. For five decades Privat has focused on specialized librarianship, information management, and knowledge services delivery. In today’s KM/knowledge services marketplace, Privat continues to bring customer-focused products and services to a continually expanding target group: knowledge workers in [...]
If you are in charge of managing strategic knowledge in your company, a serious challenges is to identify the best mechanism for ensuring the knowledge development/knowledge sharing (KM/KS) process. Knowledge services brings information management, knowledge management, and strategic learning under the authority of one strategic knowledge manager, but the many different “pieces” of the operation [...]
THE HEALTHCARE INDUSTRY IS A GOOD PLACE TO START One of the good things about modern society is the enormous diversity of professional work that moves society forward. One of the difficult things about modern society is all this professional diversity. It’s a challenge for a great many people to understand just what it is [...]
YOUR ROLE IN BUILDING THE KNOWLEDGE CULTURE IN YOUR ORGANIZATION The SMR International corporate mission is to help organizations build their own knowledge culture, to use knowledge for achieving the parent organization’s corporate mission and for enabling everyone affiliated with the company to pursue the same corporate vision. In its strategic alliance with SLA, SMR International now [...]
DEALING WITH DRUCKER’S “RESPONSIBILITY GAP” IN AFRICA A new special report from SMR International takes a look at efforts to train Africa’s youth in ICT and KM skills. Linking that effort to recent attention about the “responsibility gap” from the Drucker Institute at Claremont Graduate University, the report (“Closing the Digital Divide: Dealing with Drucker’s [...]
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