Thursday, October 14, 2010

A Career in Knowledge Management?

A very interesting article written by Professor Kan Siew Ning, former president of the Information & Knowledge Management Society iKMS, Singapore (www.ikms.org.sg)

 Here are few excerpts

Considering a career in KM






The Knowledge Manager's Role
















Irony of a CKO job


So a CKO need to posses the following set of core competencies
  1. Leadership and Management
  2. Communications
  3. Strategic Thinking
  4. Tools and Techniques
  5. Personal Behaviors
  6. Personal Knowledge & Cognitive Capability
Here is the link to the article
http://knowledge.typepad.com/ikms_newsletter/2006/05/a_career_in_kno.html



Friday, October 8, 2010

Social Media Screw Ups - A History

This presentations covers some interesting instances about how product failures captured by social media caused the companies millions.


read more at http://www.socialmediainfluence.com/