Trends, challenges and success factors in KM
08-Mar-05
Trends, challenges and success factors in KM by David Skyrme
In these eight articles David Skyrme reflects on the past, present and future of knowledge management and offers us his vision concerning trends, challenges and success factors in the field.
What Next for Knowledge Management? Development and Challenges In this article David Skyrme reviews the KM trends from previous years and makes predictions for the future.
Ten Topical Tips: KM's Critical Challenges David Skyrme picked out ten challenges that seem to recur as problematic in recent conversations with KM practitioners.
Knowledge Reflections (1): Lessons From The Past The author “reflects” on his lessons from nearly a decade of KM consulting – what recurring patterns were evident, how consultants add value and the pitfalls that clients frequently fall into.
Knowledge Reflections (2): Making Sense of KM In this article, David Skyrme offers some thoughts on sensing where we are in KM, how it has evolved over time and how KM consultancy has changed.
Information managers – do we need them? This paper analyses key developments and trends in information and knowledge management and suggests how they impact the role of information professionals. Four scenarios are presented as to how the information manager’s role may change in the future.
Knowledge Management: Does It Deliver? David Skyrme points at some common problems, mistakes and obstacles in the field of KM and shows us the 4D’s of success.
Knowledge Arithmetic The author takes some of the most common arithmetic operators and suggests how they add a perspective to some typical knowledge problems.
The One Minute Knowledge Manager Can you get over the essence of what you do in KM in one minute? In this article David Skyrme gives us his point of view If you are interested and would like to read more by David Skyrme, go and visit his website.
Details
- Author:
- David Skyrme
- Publisher:
- KnowledgeBoard
- Date:
- 08-Mar-05
- Categories:
- KM Strategy and Vision, Strategy and Vision
- Sections:
- News
This article has been read 6341 times.
Tools
Member comments (4)
Share your views with other users: add your own comments to this item.
why not be a conversational host of a megatrend
Why don’t some of us nominate one trend and see which are popular conversationally? I’ll go for :
KM’s gone from being the laziest functional sell-in as something that had to be bought to being the deepest interdisciplinary sell-in to connect the sustainability of the whole organisation’s transparency of people relationships and forward rationale for being. So as the 1990s progressed every organisation needed technology's web, email communications, networks, search. KM did not have to sell itself in as connecting the people and disciplines that were already there. Though with hindsight we can see the life of KM is internal communications media -it has no value unless it zings connections people’s relationships, learnings and actions in more purposeful ways. (Thanks to our journalist friends for starting benchmaking which organsiations truly zing)
I host a longer benchmarking analysis of this trend at this concurrent KB thread and megatrend editing is one of the world areas of expertise people central to The Club of London have demonstrated track records for over 30 years. Come and debate with us for real if you are ever passing through town. We have 3 main ways of doing this which we also help other cities to do their own knowledge versions of:
-choose what disciplinary person you want to connect with and we'll arrange that
-tell us what context you want to moderate in a one hour cafe and we'll try to find the ten people among 1000 professionals who most want to join in
-join one of the events one of our network partners hosts regularly at the Quakers Friends House (the most human facility for meeting rooms in London): known events include a 3 hour 15-person circle on Sustainability on afternoon of March 18 (ask me at wcbn007@easynet.co.uk for more info) to the 3-day annual 400-person systemic Be the Change connections
We are delighted to cooperate in seeing another city become stronger at networking than London but hope you don't mind the benchmarks London sets on this.
Articles are still up to date
Dear Patrick,
please check again: The articles are from between 2002 and 2004, the publication date is indicated in the articles. Contentwise I can only say that what David writes - even in the articles from 2002 - is still up to date.
This material is too dated to bear this title.
Date of this article is 2002. A lot of water has flowed under the bridge since then.
'05 KM retrospect
So what exactly did '05 mean for you KM wise??
http://denham.typepad.com/km/2006/01/05_retrospect.html
Podcasting, tagging, texting, blogging, collecting social bookmarks, sharing photos, building mashups, using wikis, particpating in social search, blogwalks, collaborative writing.
Where do you think KM is headed in '06 and what will you be doing in this area??
Share your dissapointments and your dreams.