It’s my guess that Mike Cooke’s provocative article in the February 15, 2012 issue of Financial Times (“Does the company CIO have a future?”) has a lot of people thinking about their career choices. And while there’s probably not a lot of worrying among CIOs secure in their jobs, people aiming to move up the …
Archives for February 2012
SMR Special Report: Starting KM in Your Organization
Readers will recall a series of posts last spring, responding to a query posted at one of the LinkedIn Groups. Starting KM in Your Organization: Here’s Your Strategic Road Map was published in eleven posts at the SMR site. We’ve had requests to put the posts together into one document. For a quick read, here …
Moving Forward with KM, Specialized Librarianship, and Knowledge Sharing in Africa
The latest issue of Information Outlook, the publication of the Special Libraries Association (SLA), includes a profile of Nerisa Kamar, who is with UN-HABITAT, the United Nations Human Settlements Programme. She works with UN-HABITAT’s Knowledge Management Unit as Assistant Librarian for the Sergio Vieira de Mello United Nations Library at Nairobi . In his introduction …
“You Have to Teach That?”
A recent conversation with a colleague got me to thinking about our work in KM, knowledge services, and knowledge strategy development. A group of us were in conversation with a lady who is not among our usual group of acquaintances. She’s a professional person, well-established in a career (not in management), and she was curious …