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Knowledge Management

Management in Library and Information Science (LIS-603)

Description: An introduction to the basic elements of management and how these are applied to the effective administration of information systems. Focus will be placed on two major roles in a system, the person who is supervised as well as the manager or supervisor. Examination of the functions of planning, organization, staffing and controlling as well as the theories of management and the effective use of these in an information… Read More »Management in Library and Information Science (LIS-603)

Knowledge Management (LIS-658)

Description: Organizational knowledge is a valuable strategic asset. Knowledge management refers to the systematic management of an organization’s knowledge assets so that they can be leveraged for sustainable advantage. This course examined how knowledge is created, captured, organized, diffused, and implemented in an organization. Topics covered include knowledge management processes and practices, corresponding technologies, collaboration tools, and people and cultural issues. Thesis Organizational processes and practices that enhance quality knowledge… Read More »Knowledge Management (LIS-658)

Communities of Practice, Virality, and Josh Billings

In this last post for the semester, I am going to try and relate the three articles as well as discuss what I (and maybe my classmates) learned.  We may not have internalized it, but at least we saw it.  I picked up several articles this weekend and put them aside; they just didn’t call to me.   The one about “United Breaks Guitars” (aka “Knowledge and Knowledge Management in the… Read More »Communities of Practice, Virality, and Josh Billings

Danger, Will Robinson!

If you were to go into my Outlook mail box(es), you would be lost with little hope of finding your way back.  I don’t know what I use for organizational categories and I rarely plan it out.  Generally, I use what comes to mind.  The reasons for all this chaos is that I rarely think about a repository for my own reuse – I have search engines for that.  I… Read More »Danger, Will Robinson!

The Burden of Proof

My daughter says that Richard Scarry was scary.  My wife loves this song.  I have proof now that she is not crazy and that this song is real. You never know what you will find in the library.

Déjà vu

I picked up the Ackerman article and was immediately struck with a sense of Déjà vu.  I am sure I have read this paper before.  In fact, it’s in my references for EndNote citations.  For the life of me, I cannot figure out where I read it previously or why.  I looked in my usual repositories – EndNote, my list of PDF’s, the laptop’s search function, and even Bibsonomy.  Well,… Read More »Déjà vu

Terrible things, yes, but great

Wow, what a couple of weeks!  Who would have thought that a company would be in the middle of a scandal about using Facebook data without permission against us?  Oh wait, that’s happened before… Well, at least Cambridge Analytica did something really new with it.  It sort of feels like we are living in the middle of Wag The Dog.  I wanted to write a post that incorporated KM, sharing,… Read More »Terrible things, yes, but great

It’s an occupational hazard kind of thing…

When you study something, you start to see it everywhere.  I’m a competitive intelligence manager at work.  I help sales people sell better or product teams build a better product, depending on who you talk to.  Sometimes I do both.  Lately I’ve been selecting knowledge management articles about knowledge transfer, competitive advantage, and learning.  As Alex Vandergrift said, “…It is reasonable to conclude that useful knowledge can be derived from a diverse… Read More »It’s an occupational hazard kind of thing…

And the Oscar is…

Truthfully, I have no idea.  I’m just using that title because my wife purchased an ‘Oscar-palooza’ package from the movie theater, so for the next week or so, we get to watch all the Oscar candidate movies.  That will probably be something like 1.67 movies a day.  Phew!  Therefore, I need to get this post out there before the big adventure starts.  One of the big movie candidates this season is ‘Dunkirk’. … Read More »And the Oscar is…

If you don’t write it down, it will never happen

Last week, the blog post was about adages, and how they represent lessons learned.  This week, after reading about codification and economics, I’m looking at how people encode knowledge.  This week’s articles (see Bibliography, below) have returned to the idea of somehow encoding knowledge; which, because we are all unique individuals, ultimately become unique knowledge as it combines with our own set of tacit knowledge that we have.  In treating… Read More »If you don’t write it down, it will never happen