Knowledge Management News & Resources

• KAPS Group
  a group of knowledge architect consultants with a wide range of skills and experience. Services include: taxonomy creation, design and implementation of metadata and controlled vocabularies, implementation of information technology such as search, content
  (tags: Consultings)
• LTI - Leveraged Technology: Core Capability: Knowledge Management (NY, USA)
  can provide consulting staff certified in Knowledge-Centered Support, but experienced enough to devise a pragmatic roadmap for your team’s success in Knowledge Management adoption
  (tags: Consultings)

• The Open University (Knowledge Media Institute): Open Sensemaking Communities Project
  a concept we are using to investigate the next step after publishing Open Educational Resources, namely, designing for sensemaking: embedding OERs in an environment that supports end-users (both students and educators) in connecting, engaging more deeply,
  (tags: Edu_Projects Edu_Products Projects Products)
• Communities In Schools - Helping Kids Stay in School and Prepare for Life
  The mission of Communities In Schools is to champion the connection of needed community resources with schools to help young people successfully learn, stay in school and prepare for life.
  (tags: EDU_Societies/Assoc. Edu-Level_school)
• Dawson, R. (2003): Living Networks. Financial Times/Prentice Hall - Companion site/Free download
  Ross Dawson offers a systematic executive’s framework for taking advantage of this extraordinary transformation. Dawson shows how to lead organizations in our intensely networked global economy. He shows how to tap networks to deepen relationships with
  (tags: Books)
• Gemeinsam “Lernen lernen” in der Schule
  In einem neuen Band der “Augsburger SchriftenReihe” bieten Peter O. Chott und Gila Barth praktische Vorschläge für eine schulhausübergreifende Förderung von Methodenkompetenz.
  (tags: Edu_Books Edu_Videos Edu-Level_school)
• Das Lernen lernen (Wolfgang Pohl)
  Diese Textfolge zur Theorie und Praxis von Lernverfahren entstand im Zeitraum September 1995 bis April 1996 und erschien gleichzeitig in der Internet-Newsgruppe schule.allgemein und im Fido-Brett SCHULE.GER. Allen, die mich bei dieser Arbeit damals durch
  (tags: Edu_Portals Edu-Level_school)
• Marc Prensky
  an internationally acclaimed speaker, writer, consultant, and designer in the critical areas of education and learning.
  (tags: Edu_Consultings Edu_Weblogs Edu_Products)

• Everest Project - Research Data, Information and Knowledge Management
  This website supports improving Research Data, Information and Knowledge Management at IRRI. The project’s name reflects the size of the problem and the difficulty in solving it.
  (tags: Projects Wikis)
• KM in Education
  A blog to explore where and how knowledge management principles apply to education.
  (tags: Weblogs Edu_Weblogs)
• Spur Innovation in Education with Knowledge Management « shortlife
  What are the basic concepts of knowledge management, how the trends, and how it might be applied in higher education and whether higher education is ready to embrace it or not, we will know through this article.
  (tags: Edu_Weblogs Edu_Articles Edu-Level_higher-edu)
• HIGNOS (CH)
  Unabhängig und nutzenorientiert schulen, coachen und beraten wir private und öffentliche Unternehmen und Organisationen darin, Wissen optimal zu strukturieren, zu sichern und zu nutzen.
  (tags: Consultings)
• Knowledge Ecology International
  an organization that searches for better outcomes, including new solutions, to the management of knowledge resources
  (tags: Societies/Assoc. Events DiscussionGroups Weblogs)

• SONIVIS Project
  Increasingly, Social Software, e.g. Wikis and Blogs, are used for collaborative knowledge management in companies. SONIVIS:Project aims at analysing these social information spaces. The objective is to investigate different development stages of these inf
  (tags: Projects Products)
• Dot.Kom Project
  study, design and implement innovative methodologies for KM based on the use of Information Extraction from texts (IE). From the scientific point of view we will focus on two aspects that are symmetric: how the use in KM poses requirements and challenges
  (tags: Projects)

[English title: PWM-Infoletter, 5/2008 (Translate text to: English)]

PWM-Infoletter Mai 2008 - 07.05.2008

• Editorial
• Jahrestreffen der Plattform Wissensmanagement 2008
• Wissenstag Österreich 2008 - Aufruf zu Vorträgen
• PWM-Mitglieder-Bonus: “Web 2.0 und darüber hinaus: In 12 Tagen zum Web-Expert”
• Aviso: Wissenstag Österreich 2008
• Literaturtipps
  • Web 2.0 in der Unternehmenspraxis – Grundlagen, Fallstudien und Trends zum Einsatz von Social Software (2008)
  • Studienbuch Wissensmanagement. Grundlagen der Wissensarbeit in Wirtschafts-, Non- Profit- und Public- Organisationen (2007)

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[Deutscher Titel: KMWorld, 17 (5), 2008 (Text übersetzen: Deutsch)]

KMWorld, May 2008, [Vol 17, Issue 5]

FEATURES

Enterprise Portal MARKET Overview 2008
For the portal marketplace, 2007 was a remarkable year. Much happened with the large infrastructure vendors, including massive, virus-like adoption of Microsoft SharePoint and product innovation from IBM, with hyped integration with Google Gadgets.
- by Janus Boye

Aligning KM investments with critical business initiatives
In September 2007, AMR Research conducted a detailed survey of 350 IT and business leaders across all industry sectors in the United States, United Kingdom and Germany to better understand spending plans, adoption, growth and business drivers for knowledge management (KM) platforms and applications. Here is a look back at the data through the lens of a possibly tighter economic environment.
- by Jim Murphy

Laying the groundwork for federated records management
The case for federated records management (RM) is strong—leave records in their native repositories, but manage them centrally. That way, the records do not need to be physically moved into a single location, yet a single set of retention rules can be applied. Records are “virtualized” so that they all appear to be within the federated records management application, from which they can be searched, placed on hold, or acted on in other ways.
- by Judith Lamont

E-learning: options for delivery
Learning doesn’t stop when people graduate from college, and, in fact, an individual’s most relevant knowledge acquisition often begins when he or she enters the work force. Knowledge developed on the job or in preparation for a job change can give a worker a competitive edge and can benefit the employer through increased performance levels. One of the most convenient delivery formats for adult learners is e-learning, which is usually available “anytime, anywhere.”
- by Judith Lamont

KM World Best Practices Award 2008
Florida community college excels at BPM
- by Judith Lamont

Records Management Market Spotlight:

• Open Text
• TOWER Software

INDUSTRY WATCH

HP to acquire Tower Software
Boosts e-discovery, compliance capabilities

Small business CRM
StreetSmart Version 2

Extending collaboration
Open Text launches new initiative

NEWS ANALYSIS

Now, everything is fragmented
- by Dave Snowden

When double standards work
I’m sorry if you’re the guy who says things like “I’m totally in favor of equality for women. That’s why I don’t see why we have to give them special breaks” when it comes to promotions or hires. Or maybe it’s not women.
- by David Weinberger

Google solves problem, sees opportunities
Google’s engineers devised a system and method to operate a “smart” shuttle service for its employees.
- by Stephen E. Arnold

COLUMNS

The Future of the Future:
Out of Africa: the next billion minds
Human civilization began in Africa. My tribe got out early, more than 50,000 years ago. I guess that explains why I’m always among the first to leave a party. According to genetic ancestry researcher Spencer Wells, my haplogroup, M168, crossed the Arabian Peninsula and proceeded to populate the other five continents. A haplogroup is a large clan of people who share a common ancestor, as indicated by a unique genetic marker.
- by Art Murray

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[Deutscher Titel: Durch die Forschungsabteilung unterstützte Wissenskombination zur Verbesserung von unstetiger Innovation (Text übersetzen: Deutsch)]

Sihem Ben Mahmoud-Jouini, Florence Charue-Duboc (2008)
Enhancing Discontinuous Innovation through Knowledge Combination: The Case of an Exploratory Unit within an Established Automotive Firm
Creativity and Innovation Management 17 (2) , 127–135 .

Abstract: The literature on innovation management underlines the necessity to separate the exploratory unit that builds new businesses on the basis of radical innovation from the exploitation unit that emphasizes continuous improvement. However, little research focuses on the exploratory unit in itself: the very nature of its activity, its composition, etc. The aim of this article is to analyse the exploratory unit in mobilizing results highlighted by research on organizational creativity. It is argued that in order to enhance discontinuous innovation, knowledge combination should occur and be facilitated in the exploratory unit. Hence, the research question is what organizational design at a fine-grained level and creativity processes are likely to enhance knowledge combination and thus discontinuous innovation? Based on an in-depth study of an exploratory unit created in an established multidivisional firm pursuing the development of discontinuous innovation and which generated several actual breakthroughs, we highlighted four key factors that enhanced knowledge combination: (i) the definition of the scope of the unit, (ii) the composition of the unit and the dual roles of its members, (iii) the boundary objects that supported the interactions between these members during the creativity process, and (iv) the arenas where new knowledge was further created.

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[Deutscher Titel: Einfluss organisationaler Wissensschnittstellen für die erfolgreiche Übertragung von Wissen in Universitäts-Industrie-Partnerschaften (Text übersetzen: Deutsch)]

Arthur Lloyd Sherwood, Jeffrey G. Covin (2008)
Knowledge Acquisition in University-Industry Alliances: An Empirical Investigation from a Learning Theory Perspective
Journal of Product Innovation Management 25 (2) , 162–179

Abstract: A firm’s technological knowledge base is the foundation on which internal product and process innovations are generated. However, technological knowledge is not accumulated solely through internal learning processes. Increasingly, firms are turning to external sources in the technology supply chain to acquire the technological knowledge they need to introduce product and process innovations. Thus, the successful structuring and executing of partnerships with external “technology source” organizations is often critical to competitive success in technologically dynamic environments. This study uses situated learning theory as a basis for explaining how factors inherent to the knowledge acquisition context may affect the successful transference of technological knowledge from universities to their industry partners. Data collected via a survey instrument from 104 industry managers were used to explore the effects of various organizational knowledge interface factors on knowledge acquisition success in university–industry alliances. The organizational knowledge interface factors hypothesized to affect knowledge acquisition success in the current research include partner trust, partner familiarity, technology familiarity, alliance experience, formal collaboration teams, and technology experts’ communications. Results indicate that partner trust predicts the successful acquisition of tacit knowledge but not explicit knowledge. Both forms of knowledge are predicted by partner familiarity and communications between the partners’ technology experts. These findings suggest three principal managerial implications. First, although the development of a trusting relationship between the knowledge source and knowledge-seeking parties is generally advisable, firms that seek to acquire explicit technological knowledge from their alliance partners may successfully do so without having made significant time and energy investments designed to assure themselves that they can trust those partners. The relative observability and verifiability of explicit knowledge relative to tacit knowledge may enable knowledge-seeking parties to have greater confidence that knowledge has been acquired when partner trust is in question or has not been deliberately developed. A second implication is that, other things being equal, a knowledge-seeking party’s interests may be best served through repeated exposures to particular alliance partners, particularly if those exposures facilitate mutual understandings on relevant process-related matters. A third managerial implication is that ongoing, broad-based communications between the partners’ technology experts should be used to effect technology transfer. A key quality of the organizational knowledge interface that promotes the successful acquisition of technological knowledge, both tacit and explicit, is multipoint, real-time contact between the technology experts of the partner organizations. Such communications potentially enable the knowledge-seeking party to directly access desired information through the most knowledgeable individuals on an as-needed basis.

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[Deutscher Titel: Die Wirkung von Wissensmanagementprozessen auf Innovationsgruppen (Text übersetzen: Deutsch)]

Xiaoke Wei, Fenghua Xie
Knowledge management processes and innovation: an empirical analysis of firms in software cluster
International Journal of Human Resources Development and Management 2008 - Vol. 8, No.1/2 pp. 25 - 42

Abstract: This paper examines the impact of knowledge management processes on innovation of firms in Hangzhou software cluster. The perspective of this study suggests that knowledge process architecture of knowledge acquisition, integration, exploitation and protection are essential capabilities for effective organisational innovation. Through analysis of surveys collected from 205 senior executives, this research empirically models and uncovers key aspects of these dimensions. The results show that knowledge management process is a second-order construct, it has significant impact on innovation performance. This implies that the knowledge spillover, integration, sharing and protection could improve innovation performance of the software cluster. This paper concludes with a discussion and limitations of the research.

Keywords: knowledge management process; innovation; software clusters; industry clusters; China; knowledge acquisition; knowledge exploitation; knowledge protection; knowledge spillover; knowledge integration; knowledge sharing.

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[Deutscher Titel: Melcrum's Knowledge Management Newsletter, 5/2008 (Text übersetzen: Deutsch)]

Melcrum’s Knowledge Management Newsletter, May 9th, 2008

Creating a robust framework for new knowledge creation
Jessica Twentyman, Editor

Latest News

• Email activism, laziness, informal networks, and a whole load more
• Revitalizing the task of searching for know-how
• Global Intranet Benchmarking Survey
• Communication needs to move away from the “news paradigm”
• Thomson Reuters gets tough on personal blogging

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