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[Refinancing] Over the last decade or so companies have been told ad nauseum that their knowledge is their ultimate (if not only) source of competitive advantage. They have been encouraged - by management gurus, academics, and ample management consultants alike - that they should invest in knowledge development, protect it, and make sure it gets identified, codified, and even put on the balance sheet.

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[Richard Thinks...] Knowledge Management Part 2: Is it worthwhile?: So Knowledge Management does not rely on having the latest IT and communication tools, nor is it about having lots of explicit knowledge codified and stored in repositories, they help but, without a culture of sharing information, knowledge and experience across the organisation then it is very unlikely to succeed.

[Journal Study] Knowledge Management: KM efforts overlap with Organizational Learning, and may be distinguished from by a greater focus on the management of knowledge as a strategic asset and a focus on encouraging the exchange of knowledge. KM efforts can help individuals .

[Nancy White's Full Circle Blog] Full Circle Associates » Dave Snowden on Rendering Knowledge: A genuine request for help is not often refused unless there is literally no time or a previous history of distrust. On the other hand ask people to codify all that they know in advance of a contextual enquiry and it will be refused (in practice its impossible anyway).

[Disparate] Transparency and Secrecy: People in Mali have been quite explicit about the value of displacement. They said, in so many words, that what I’d write (even secrets) wouldn’t matter much because of such a distance between my own context and “local concerns.”

[UNIFEM Job Vacancies] UNDP Jobs: This will involve: 1) reviewing the existing documentation on the external website and intranet of the MDG Net, such as research and discussion papers, global and regional reports, toolkits and guidelines, etc.; 2) liaising with policy experts in UNDP HQ and Regional Centres to identify key documents, 3) categorizing the documents to facilitate access to them by the Practice Community. 

[Example Papers: Essay Examples, Example Research Papers, Examples of Term Papers and Dissertations] Siemens: Siemens overall competitive strategy should drive the knowledge management strategy of ShareNet. The telecommunications industry has become a commoditized industry over the past few years, therefore products and services have become .

[HarvardBusiness.org] When Knowledge Management Hurts - Freek Vermeulen ...: But I think the author here jumps to a giant conclusion to "Shut down your expensive document databases;" (Surely you're familiar with compliance, retention, etc.) As per my reaction after reading Cory Doctorow's post here, I'm under the impression that this blog is free advice that would never appear in HBR or any other HBS pay publication.

[Ross Mayfield's Weblog] Ross Mayfield's Weblog: The End of Process: Of all the quotes that I came across in my exploration that started at Rod Boothby's Rigid Process can Kill Innovation post on his Innovation Creators blog, my favorite is this: "process is an embedded reaction to prior stupidity. ...

[Bordeaux & Associates] Back to First Principles for Knowledge Management: [...] many of your views on what is traditionally known as Knowledge Management, then let me point you to a recent article he put together in his blog and which has got so much food for thought on it on this very same topic, that I will defer to an [...]

[Consilience] Consilience » Blog Archive » Situating Local Knowledge Within ...: If University people and those who are educationally empowered give moral and intellectual support to the local custodians, artisans and native philosophers (in the latter’s quest to advance knowledge frontiers), by way of democratizing the African education system, there is no reason why outsiders and development practitioners would hesitate to join hands in promoting what belongs to the people. Nonetheless, South Africa is already, at the moment, blazing a trail in this respect.

[mayfly] mayfly » Blog Archive » A brief overview of ancient medicine: Hezekiah was treated with a fig poultice and Tobit (from the deuterocanonical book) was eventually cured of blindness with a fish gall application). The very fact that surgical care required codified regulatory supervision indicates that it was practiced and that there was some expectation of benefit.

[Ton's Interdependent Thoughts] Call for Papers: Personal KM Workshop, Switzerland, March 2009: However I am finally about to launch a new web site on Smartworking which is aimed at helping knowledge workers be more effective. Will e-mail you when the site is up - will be pretty basic initially but hopefully it might develop into a genuinely useful and hopefully insightful resource.

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