Spending time with my friends in their home village of Mabao, Shanxi Province, has meant that I’ve been able to directly experience the significant benefits of two important aspects of Chinese thought – ecological civilization and whole-process people’s democracy.
The critical appraisal of a recent climate change article offers important lessons for knowledge management.
A knowmad is a nomadic knowledge worker – that is, a creative, imaginative, and innovative person who can work with almost anybody, anytime, and anywhere.
The work of Mary Parker Follett is as important to KM as that of Peter Drucker.
It is entirely possible to encourage and respect decentralised knowledge and problem solving while retaining an overriding purpose and command structure.
Scientometric studies help to inform and educate internal and external stakeholders on a discipline’s state-of-the-art and any needed corrective actions.
A recent paper suggests that KM may successfully exist as a cluster of divergent schools of thought. These could potentially be organisational KM, KM for development, societal KM, and customer experience KM.
Suggestions in regard to what KM4Dev and RealKM can consider doing to assist the decolonisation of knowledge and knowledge management (KM) are made across four areas.
“Common Good KM” could assist in driving progress toward addressing sustainable development goals (SDGs) in KM, and second-order science could assist in identifying the transformations needed for this.
Certification risks point to the need for the KM community to ensure that the training and certification processes for ISO 30401 auditors are rigorous.