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Mapping the World
Xenia Stanford
In light of our focus this issue on social networking, Stanford
outlines the challenges facing global communities and the joys
of connecting to the world.
Does Archiving
Separate Knowledge from Information?
Barbara Weaver Smith responds to Denham Grey's Special Discussion
Challenge: Wondering if others also see the need to archive,
as an attribute that separates knowledge from information?
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issues/6 months) to KnowMap.
The Golden Rules of
Alliances
Larraine Segil
Segil demonstrates how the Spider Network™ represents
a web of opportunities and risks. She shares her 8 Golden Rules
to minimize risks and lead to alliance success. To learn more,
see review of her book
Fast Alliances
- Power your E-business
The Role
of the Knowledge Integrator
Xenia Stanford
Formerly considered the function of a computer system, recently
the role of Knowledge Integrator has been added to others in KM.
Stanford compares the role, benefits and challenges of the human
KI.
The Problem
of Agency: Industry Self-Discipline and Governmental Partnership
in the Cluster Economy
Piero Formica
Italy's Piero Formica argues how in a cluster economy (a value
added community in terms of knowledge production and dissemination)
government agency involvement creates a needlessly political market
that has negative outcomes.
In Search of
Permanency: Part I: Fragility of a Purely Virtual Team
Chin Hoon Lau
Malaysia's Chin Hoon Lau explores the vulnerability and instability
of virtual knowledge networks, such as the Internet Biologists,
an online community of scientists facing the issues of the
Internet as they try to stay virtually connected.
Part I will be followed in future issues by these two:
Part II: Possible Solutions - Anticipate, Create, Dissolve
Part III: Towards a Long-term Organizational Relationship - Ask,
Learn, Follow-up and Grow
Knowledge
Management: Bedrock of Enterprise Strategy: Part I - Practical
Definitions
George H. Stevens and Scott M. Krasner
Competitive advantage belongs to organizations that apply
technology not to transaction processing, but to managing the
collective knowledge of enterprises. In this first of three parts
the authors describe knowledge management and the KM challenges
facing organizations.
Knowledge
Management: Bedrock of Enterprise Strategy: Part II - Scope and
Components
George H. Stevens and Scott M. Krasner
In this second part Stevens and Krasner discuss the benefits organizations
can expect and some have achieved. They also list and describe
the essential components required.
To follow in Vol. 2, No. 3:
Knowledge Management: Bedrock of Enterprise Strategy: Part
III - Critical Success Factors
In this part the authors present critical success factors for
knowledge environment design, technology selection and process
management associated with successful knowledge environment build-out.
Intelligence
Analysis: Part I - Turning Information into Intelligence
Darwin Nickel
Nickel explores the difference between academic research and intelligence
analysis and how to turn information into a product that can actually
support the decision-making process.
Intelligence
Analysis: Part II - Reducing Risk
Darwin Nickel
Nickel demonstrates how intelligence analysis helps to reduce
risk and assist in surer decision-making.
Intelligence Analysis: Part III - Predicting the Future
Darwin Nickel
In the next issue, Nickel discusses three analytical approaches
that help you predict the future more accurately.
BHP Maintenance Engineers
Knowledge Sharing Relationships: Part I - Survey
Laurence Lock Lee
This case study is an example of using social network analysis
to discover knowledge sharing flows between key knowledge sharing
experts and brokers. In this part Lock Lee shares the questionnaire
and process he used to audit the maintenance engineers in order
to plot the map of their knowledge-sharing network.
BHP Maintenance
Engineers Knowledge Sharing Relationships: Part II - Mapping Knowledge
Sharing Relationships at BHP Laurence Lock Lee
This case study is an example of using social network analysis
to study knowledge sharing relationships among maintenance engineers
in a global mining company headquartered in Australia. In this
part Lock Lee shares the maps, some key findings and future plans.
See also article under Special Views:
The
Golden Rules of Alliances
Segil demonstrates how the Spider Network™ represents a web
of opportunities and risks. She shares her 8 Golden Rules to minimize
risks and lead to alliance success. To learn more, see review
of her book
Fast Alliances
- Power your E-business
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