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In Search of Sustainability
- Xenia Stanford
In this age of what Debra M. Amidon calls one of kaleidoscopic
change can we find economic, organizational and Internet stability?
Stanford explores why this seems to be the focus of the articles
in this issue.
Thanks for helping an MLS candidate by completing the Knowledge
Management Professionals Competencies Survey. She's now analyzing
the data; results will be found online by next issue.
Voice of the
Deans of the Socrates Academy:
The founding Deans of the Socrates Academy speak of their vision
for affordable and accessible education for all and why they accepted
this appointment.
The Global Knowledge
Primer: Now Free From ENTOVATION - Debra M. Amidon
Amidon welcomes us to the knowledge economy and challenges us
to be an integral player in the solutions ahead. Then she generously
makes her pivotal work: The Global Knowledge Primer - free
on the Internet.
See also
Review of this
e-book and that of the companion volume The
Architecture Primer.
Does
Archiving Separate Knowledge from Information?
R.J. (Bob) Bater adds his views to Denham Grey's Special Discussion
Challenge: Wondering if others also see the need to archive,
as an attribute that separates knowledge from information?
Give us your view and win a complimentary Emerald subscription
(3 issues/6 months) to KnowMap.
Competency
Mapping: An Invaluable People Resource Tool Xenia Stanford
Stanford lists 12 uses of competency mapping including defining
roles, creating position descriptions, making corporate yellow
pages, drafting resumes, selecting the best candidates, finding
jobs and determining training needs. She further explores how
these can be an integral part of a better new practice called
"Management in the Round".
In Search of Permanency:
Part II: Possible Solutions - Anticipate, Create, Dissolve
- 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 II explores possible
responses to stimulate permanency in a virtual community, such
as the Meta switch, membership quality and the virtual leadership
of "anticipate, create and dissolve".
Part III: Towards
a Long-term Organizational Relationship - Ask, Learn, Follow-up
and Grow - Chin Hoon Lau
In this concluding part Lau examines other possible solutions
to encourage a more stable online community, such as long-term
organizational relationship through: "ask, learn, follow-up
and grow".
The above two parts conclude the series started with In
Search of Permanency: Part I: Fragility of a Purely Virtual Team
Knowledge
Management: Bedrock of Enterprise Strategy: Part III - Critical
Success Factors
George H. Stevens and Scott M. Krasner
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.
Part III completes the series, which includes:
Intelligence
Analysis: Part III - Predicting the Future - Darwin Nickel
Nickel discusses three analytical approaches that help you
predict the future more accurately.
Part III completes the series, which includes:
Toolkit
To read past articles on this topic, click on the above heading.
See Audits section under Case Studies for a review
and suggestions for improvement of the SCAT (Social Capital Assessment
Tool) as used for the assessment of the Social Capital and Innovation
of the E100.
See Maps section under Case Studies for examples
of hyperbolic knowledge maps.
Next Issue
KnowMap Reporters give highlights of the following events:
- The 2002 Knowledge Management/ Organizational Learning Conference:
Enabling Success in Troubled Times, May 7-8, 2002; New York,
NY
- Global Knowledge Management eXchange Conference & Exhibition
in New York! June 24-27.
- E100 Roundtable, an exclusive event for members of Debra M.
Amidon's Global Knowledge Network.
- More Connecting the Dots stories and updates on the Socrates
Academy as we prepare for countdown to Global Learn Day VI -
October 13, 2002.
Other articles for our subscribers:
- Competency Mapping to Define Roles and Responsibilities Matched
to the Mission - Xenia Stanford
- Quantum Competencies for a Knowledge Culture Vision - Libby
Trudell, Liz Blankson-Hemans & Betty Jo Hibberd
- Driving Forces for Sustainability in China - Jin Zhouying,
Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
- Converting Content Innovation and Opportunities into Marketable
Products and Services - Maria Antonietta Sgambaro, Italy
- Information to Change the World: Leadership Circle at Quantum
- Libby Trudell
- Results of the KM Competencies Survey - Alycia Tulloch
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