We continued our walk down Park Avenue, and Kevin Manion and I continued our good conversation about the attributes managers look for in the successful knowledge strategist. And on this subject, Kevin (who works at Consumer Reports in Yonkers, NY) is a man knows whereof he speaks. Throughout his wide-ranging career, Kevin has had an amazing run of valuable opportunities to put together his concepts about communication and knowledge management, knowledge services, and the link between knowledge strategy and the larger organizational business strategy (we explored these in the last SMR post). Prior to his current position as Director…
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There was a hot conversation on Park Avenue the other night. I was out with friends for dinner, and as we walked downtown after dinner, along that famous New York boulevard, the conversation turned to some of the things we think about in our professional lives. As many readers know, I’m heavily involved in the M.S. in Information and Knowledge Strategy program at Columbia University. I’m wearing several “hats” relating to the program (including teaching), so the relationship between strategy in the general management community and the specifics of knowledge strategy development are often on my mind. I was…
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We don’t limit knowledge development and knowledge sharing to the workplace. For many of us, we also like to look at how KD/KS is practiced in emerging societies. Now we have an opportunity to give credit where credit is due. Infinite Family is an organization doing really exemplary work in Africa. Through Infinite Family’s mentoring program, African teens have a better chance of becoming productive members of their schools, villages and countries. With Infinite Family, adults worldwide use the internet to mentor African teens individually and face-to-face, filling the void left by adults who aren’t there, and providing African…
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