Who are information professionals? We provide actionable knowledge to our clients, whether they be in the corporate, government, non-profit or other sectors. We work with our clients to provide the information they need to make decisions and move forward.
“Information has gone from scarce to superabundant: that brings huge new benefits, says Kenneth Cukier (interviewed here)—but also big headaches.” The Economist print edition, Feb 25th 2010,
In my consulting work, my clients are wrestling with the terabytes of data they produce. Finding information that already exists in an organization can be the most frustrating, time-consuming [...]
Take a few minutes to read this short article in the New York Times “Small Business” section and see how you measure up. What the author describes can easily happen to small business owners and entrepreneurs who are busy running their businesses. It’s a reminder to look after ourselves.
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Knowledge management (KM) and knowledge services (KS) have been around for awhile and are often touted as a total fix-all for organizational information overload. Therefore, they are often overlooked or seen as over-rated as a solution. I disagree.
Dave Snowden presented one of the best definitions I’ve seen:
The purpose of knowledge management is to provide support [...]
Over the past three years, the McKinsey Quarterly has tracked the rising adoption of Web 2.0 technologies, as well as the ways organizations are using them. This year, they sought to get a clear idea of whether companies are deriving measurable business benefits from their investments in the Web.
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