Critical Eye: Why those climate views can’t be given equal voice and hearing
The critical appraisal of a recent climate change article offers important lessons for knowledge management.
Tag: KM
The emergence of “knowmads” as new knowledge workers
A knowmad is a nomadic knowledge worker – that is, a creative, imaginative, and innovative person who can work with almost anybody, anytime, and anywhere.
What about the role of the “Mother of Modern Management” in KM?
The work of Mary Parker Follett is as important to KM as that of Peter Drucker.
Top-down vs. collaborative consensus: using the most appropriate approach for the decision-making level
It is entirely possible to encourage and respect decentralised knowledge and problem solving while retaining an overriding purpose and command structure.
Implications for the knowledge management discipline from a review of scientometric research
Scientometric studies help to inform and educate internal and external stakeholders on a discipline’s state-of-the-art and any needed corrective actions.
What are the potential knowledge management (KM) disciplines in an interdisciplinary approach to KM?
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.
What can KM4Dev and RealKM do to assist the decolonisation of knowledge and 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.
Is it time for transformations towards “Common Good KM”?
“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.
The need for rigorous ISO 30401 auditor training and certification, and a new initiative in this regard
Certification risks point to the need for the KM community to ensure that the training and certification processes for ISO 30401 auditors are rigorous.
Case studies in inappropriate responses in the face of complexity
Managers and leaders are partly responsible for management fads that aren’t appropriate responses to complexity. But governments and research institutions can actually be the primary drivers of these fads.