If "thought leaders" intrigue you, do some networking in the Pharmaceutical industry. Drug companies maintain a function called Medical Affairs that is largely devoted to networking among "Key Opinion

Srinivas, Here is the crux of the question. Whatdo you define as a SME? (academic, experience, recognized thought leader,the one everyone else goes to for advice, the greatest communicator, thebest

All, Probably one of the crude/easiestways to identify SME’s in an organization would be through (a top-downapproach) nominating associates who have accumulated knowledge in specificarea. Just a

Paulette, Thisis very interesting and I am sure accelerates the development of your new people. Does your program extend to have mentoring right across the career path or justwith the new joiners.

Dave, I have also signed up for this. Not so up for the knotty debates on epistemology but I like that: - The course is free if you don't want to claim credit towards a degree for it. - They really

Very interesting Dave. From my work with social/organizational/knowledge networks I have come to the conclusion of "What you know depends on Who you know" [and vice versa] -- this course aligns well

I've enrolled in the Massive Open Online Course on Connectivism. It's acredit course offered through the University of Manitoba by two oldhands at KM/OL, George Siemensand Stephen Downes, but it has

Dear Friends, I am looking for a Search Expert (Searchas in Search Engine, not Executive Recruitment.....). I do not need a techie, but a strongProgram Manager, with a high degree of expertise in

Hi Jerry, Here at Boeing in my group we have created an entire toolkit for Knowledge Transfer between the generations. The toolkit includes an electronic survey to determine how to match people up

Jerry, I would be happy to talk in detail about some for the initiatives we were putting in place before I left Cadbury Schweppes. I have remained in touch with them on a regular basis and whilst

Hi all. I met Bob Wendover of the Center for Generational Studies at the APQC KM meeting in Chicago recently and was very interested in his thoughts on the communication breakdown between older and

When I was a KMer, I often used the analogy of recipes to try to explain how knowledge could be captured and shared. Here's a vivid example of the dangers blindly following a recipe. (The recipe

Hi, Following on from the US/Canada excursion earlier this year, I will be in Bangkok (subject to civil unrest & flight cancellations), London, Paris, various parts of Japan and, yes, Bognor Regis

Several years ago, Michael Sutton compiled a report of about 30 pages about graduate programs in KM. I know it is out of date, but he may be willing to share it; I know you are both on LinkedIn. I am

SIKMers, As follow-up to last week's "densely delivered" one-way discussion on Knowledge Planning I've blogged some of the presentation notes for the purpose of sparking the responses that had no

Patti, Weinclude KM as one of the 12 courses in our MBA program at RMITUniversity (MelbourneAustralia). RMIT also facilitates PhD and Doctorate programs in Project management andseveral of the

Hello Patti, Walden University offers a PhD in AppliedManagement and Decisions Sciences with an option for an emphasis inKM. I will presenting a subset of my dissertation fromthat program at the

Patti, See The Knowledge Management Education Wiki at http://knowledge-management-education.wikispaces.com/ and in our Member list in the Files folder under Universities. We also have some members

Patti, There are at least two master’sdegree programs in the US. One at Cal State Northridge –which is an online program. And one at KentState. I know that a couple of the Army guys