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Since I first came on the scene as a knowledge manager in 2008, knowledge managers have debated (and debated) the purpose of knowledge management (KM).
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Creating, editing, reviewing, approving and reading documents takes up a large part of most peoples workdays.
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Industrialist Andrew Carnegie once said, “The only irreplaceable capital an organization possesses is the knowledge and ability of its people. The productivity of that capital depends on how effectively people share their competence with those who can use it.”
More so than ever, this statement holds true.
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Knowledge management is often categorized as an IT solution in the form of intranets, wikis, forums, community spaces and other web 2.0 collaboration tools.
And while addressing knowledge management (KM) as an IT function may be common, it can limit the potential outcomes that can significantly impact your business strategy.
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The road to the future is constantly accelerating.
That theme underlay two recent — and on the surface very different — events.
The Conference Board of Canada’s Council on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM) held it’s one and a half day event in Toronto, with KM practitioners, captains of industry
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As executive director of the Wikimedia Foundation — publisher of Wikipedia, the world’s fifth largest website — Lila Tretikov leads a nonprofit organization that boldly asks its users to “imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge.
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Think Star Wars — and you probably don't think information management. But throughout the entire Star Wars series there have been epic instances of bad information management and disastrous knowledge management (not to mention abysmal information security, but that’s for a different article).
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Every organization — be it large or small — has experts who know better than anyone else how things work.
They are the go-to people — the ones who have the answer to your burning questions.
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Now that special-purpose algorithms are doing a better job of driving cars, a distinguished professor in AI suggests, they might be repurposed for replacing lawyers.
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They say any publicity is good publicity. So with that in mind, thank you Seth G … thanks for citing my blog post.
I understand that this is a little friendly debate between Seths (perhaps Seth Maislin can chime in). And I know you are being provocative.
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In a December 2014 press release, International Data Corporation senior vice president and chief analyst Frank Gens predicted that the worldwide information and telecommunications industry would continue to grow due to the new wave of information, cloud, big data and mobility solutions, but that the underlying story driving this growth
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What if I told you that there was a magical integration piece that could pull together information management, collaboration, big data analytics and knowledge management — would you believe me?
I read a book recently which made me think about the people, processes and technology it would take.
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The reciprocal connection between knowledge management and social collaboration platforms would be clear to most. But what about a connection between knowledge management and big data?
Using KM can help facilitate additional value from big data.
A Big Data Knowledge Spiral
Wikipedia defines big data as: “ Big data
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Discussions of organizational siloes often turn to technological barriers and questions of integrating systems. But just as often, siloed thinking is part of the issue, too. Breaking down those walls requires developing “an adjacency mindset” — finding connections that aren’t obvious and uncovering new ones.
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