[Guy St. Clair met Madelyn Blair at the recent KM Education Forum Summit in Washington. In their conversation, Madelyn described how asking two simple questions could lead to great success in identifying competencies for knowledge workers. Thanks to Madelyn for sharing this remarkable technique with SMR’s readers.] The business needed to look more carefully at …
Archives for May 2011
Guest Post from Ed O’Neal: A More Realistic Career Path for Knowledge Workers
[Ed O’Neal and Guy St. Clair got to know one another at the recent KM Education Forum Summit in Washington, where they talked together about KM work in the corporate structure. Thanks to Ed for sharing his thoughts with SMR’s readers.] In and out of KM for a career… I spent 24 years in …
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 …
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 …
3S + 1S More: Cindy Hill’s Thoughts
[As we concluded the recent series of posts with advice about a KM start-up initiative, I saw Cindy Hill’s thoughts about Future Ready, Peter Drucker’s concept – from his Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices (1999) – currently being used as Cindy Romaine’s theme in her leadership of the Special Libraries Association. Reprinted with permission. – Guy …