Wednesday, September 29, 2010

iKMS Singapore KM Award winners

About iKMS Singapore
The Information and Knowledge Management Society is a non-profit, membership based professional organisation founded in Singapore in 2001 to promote knowledge sharing and good practice in knowledge and information management.
Purpose of the KM Excellence Awards
The KM Excellence Awards are intended to surface examples of good knowledge management practice within Singapore, in any type of organization:
  • for the learning benefit of the professional KM community
  • to promote knowledge exchange among organizations that are already on a KM journey
  • to build the confidence of organizations that are considering a KM journey
Types of Award
Applications are evaluated in two categories: whether they are making innovative and
productive use of Technology and Infrastructure to support knowledge and information
management; and whether they are successfully introducing change in Culture and
Processes to support knowledge and information management goals.
The are four (+ 1 )main levels of award:
  1. Bronze – where a KM initiative is judged to be starting to make some positive impact
  2. Silver – where a KM initiative is judged to be having real business impact in parts of the organisation, but this impact is not yet pervasive across the organisation
  3. Gold – where a KM initiative is judged to have pervasive, positive business impact in all parts of the organisation
  4. Platinum –where an organisation has closely aligned its efforts in both Technology and Culture categories, and is judged to merit a Gold in both.
  5. Merit - Organisations that cannot yet demonstrate clear business impact but show great promise in the view of the evaluation panel, may be awarded a Merit Award.
2010 iKMS Excellence Award winners


2009 iKMS Excellence Award winners


2008 iKMS Excellence Award winners




Thursday, September 9, 2010

Skillset for a KM Job includes

According to the ITJobsWatch.co.uk, for the 6 months to 23 September 2010, IT jobs within the UK citing Knowledge Management also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited Knowledge Management.

KM Jobs Titles








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KM Vendors