Greetings SIKM leaders! I've been noodling a lot lately about the influence that IT has had on KM and vice versa (both good and bad). I'm wondering if there are many other IT representatives in SIKM?

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I recently read Stewart Thornhill's article "Ten dirty little secrets of successful entrepreneurs" from the Ivey School of Business. I thought many of them, with some adaptation, could apply to KM and

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There has been a dichotomy in knowledge management for as long as it has been a discipline. One school of thought believes that KM is mostly about technology and systems. The other school focuses on K

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On yesterday's call, there was a question about what SIKM stands for. It originally stood for Systems Integration Knowledge Management, but that meaning was obsolete soon after the community was start

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Since reading this fascinating article recently about how avalanches are really a human-caused problem via some combination of heuristic traps, I've been seeing heuristic traps pop up everywhere. For

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If you are involved in planning a new knowledge management initiative, which KM approach or component do you think is the most important with which to start? Why? If you are part of an existing knowle

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It is painful to observe, that in the Corona crisis a large international company has fired the whole Knowledge Management Crew. We at SKMF have seen a similar case in 2015. But within 12 months the s

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The 'loss of KM jobs' question is a good one, but this one flips it around. Consultants among us may be quick to answer - "It depends !!" but what does it depend on? I'd tend to look at industries wit

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Is there a specific term for when someone has an epiphany or flash of insight about analogy from one topic to another. Those are very useful. Morphism? For example, Alexander Graham Bell was contempla

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In yesterday's call, Leif Edvinsson suggested that we continue the discussion by answering this question: What should we do today to have a better future? He would like to start a cross-generational d

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Hi all, Down in Australia and New Zealand right now, the AFAC forum I am a part of is developing the latest update of the Knowledge Framework for Fire & Rescue Agencies. As with anything built by a co

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Hello all, I'm reaching out to the group for advice and counsel. I've been looking for a Knowledge Manager position, either in Atlanta, GA or remote, for over a year now. I've had several interviews,

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Hi, Following on form the #postyourpill campaign: https://www.bigissue.com/life/health/postyourpill-trend-mental-health-medication/ I want to raise the issue of mental health and KM. When we work with

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Hi all, With a couple of weeks off I had time to write a couple of blog posts I would like to share: - Stan's repost of his 2015 article on the DIKW Pyramid led me to some musings about whether inform

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Jean-Claude Monney and I had a good chat today. One of the things we discussed was the latest technology trends in KM. I have written about this (e.g., What are the trends in KM, and what does the fut

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"Everything dies, including information" - nice piece from Erik Sherman in MIT Technology Review: https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/10/26/1061308/death-of-information-digitization: 'You make educa

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Or just expedient use of available technology under duress? Was just reading this article about Ukrainian field artillery crews using their personal cell phones to make calls and exchange texts from t

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