Posted on September 29, 2009 by mikepowell
How do you plan and manage a research programme if you do not know what the outcomes will be? With great difficulty is the answer, particularly in the current climate where predictability is usually expected and measured. Such expectations can impose real constraints on research processes which aim to interact with and encourage the participation [...]
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Posted on May 28, 2009 by Sarah Cummings
Yesterday afternoon, together with a Context colleague Peter Das, I went to a knowledge cafe (kennis cafe) on the measurement of knowledge management. It was organised by the Centre for Research in Intellectual Capital (Kenniskring) of InHolland University for Applied Sciences. There were two presentations: one of a research project by Guy Mestrini to measure [...]
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Posted on October 9, 2007 by Sarah Cummings
On 27 September 2007, Julie made a presentation to the Information Management Working Group of EADI on the subject of open access related to the Knowledge Management for Development Journal. Click here to watch the video
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Posted on October 9, 2007 by Sarah Cummings
A paper by Michael Koenig, KM moves beyond the organization: the opportunity for librarians was originally presented to the IFLA conference in 2005. Kingo Mchombu, one of the authors of this blog, has identified is as a key ‘must read’ reference for our work.
In this paper, Koenig argues that:
KM is no ordinary management fad – first, it [...]
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