Monitoring knowledge (management): an impossible task?

It isn’t an impossible task to monitor/evaluate (M&E) intangibles, knowledge or knowledge management (KM), but it requires a series of tough choices in a maze of possibles. This is what Simon Hearn and myself are discovering, trying to summarise, synthesise and build upon the two M&E of KM papers commissioned earlier, as well as the [...]

Workshop on emerging research paradigms

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 [...]

Meta-analyses of organisational strategies for KM

The first issue of the Knowledge Management for Development Journal to be published by Routledge (Volume 5, Issue 1, 2009) has now appeared, focusing on the subject of KM in organisations. Guest editors of this issue comprised Ewen Le Borgne, Catherine Vaillancourt-Laflamme and Ivan Kulis. The issue has been produced in the context of the [...]

Managing “le savoir”

The date is set: 5 October 2009, in back to back with the annual KM4DEV event, the first cobbles on the road to a francophone community of practice on learning for development will be paved, in Brussels the modern Babel tower!
The objectives are two-fold:
- to introduce the IKM Emergent discourse in the francophone arena;
- to [...]

Disruptive design at EADI (Day two)

There was so much happening today at the EADI General Conference that I almost don’t know where to start.
Disruptive design
First of all, I went to visit the IKM-sponsored installation in the main hall of the University of Geneva. This is divided into two parts: firstly there is a series of pyramid shaped pillars with linked [...]

First day of the EADI General Conference

Today, 24 June, was the first full day of the EADI General Conference in Geneva. A great day to catch up with the Information Management Working Group.
In the afternoon, the Working Group held a joint meeting with Euforic in which colleagues presented 12 different information services. These information services included the DFID-funded Research for Development, News [...]

Giraffes and tools

Giraffes are fantastic animals, very well designed for their environment. Yes, they are wise and far-seeing and take a broad perspective of their environment, but they are also equipped with some fantastic tools. The obvious case is their neck, superbly suited for reaching the fruit that no one else can get. Then there’s their tongue which can [...]

The giraffe kicks!

Welcome to the new blog of IKM Emergent Working Group 3: Management of Knowledge.
Why ‘the giraffe’, you may wonder? Wise and farseeing, it is an elegant, swift animal, capable of outrunning and conquering many of its foes, surviving in harsh circumstances. Its long neck, sharp ears and far-sighted vision contribute to a strong sense of [...]