SMR’s August 26th post described the work of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-HABITAT) in helping Pakistanis, as the flood disaster moves into the post-disaster recovery phase. Pakistani Floods: KM/Knowledge Services at Work provides strategic knowledge managers with a dramatic example of how KM/knowledge services – as a management or functional discipline – comes [...]
Collaboration is too important to neglect. Whether managers create a collaborative environment where collaboration “just happens,” or if strategic efforts are made to ensure that people collaborate, it’s now clear that the successful organization is one in which collaboration is a critical building block. Some years ago, Edward M. Marshall – who might have been [...]
A colleague finds himself in a strange professional situation, perhaps a classic management conflict. In the forward-thinking company where he works, he has been assigned to take knowledge development and knowledge sharing to “the floor.” His colleagues who manage strategic learning feel that it’s time for KD/KS to go live, so to speak, and everyone [...]
Two recent references to the Red Campaign – designed to eliminate AIDs in Africa – drive home the incredibly critical role of KM/knowledge services in today’s society. In the latest edition of The Gurteen Knowledge-Letter, David Gurteen describes the strong emotional impact he had when watching the campaign’s latest video. At about the same time, [...]
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. [...]
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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