Knowledge Management News™ is a an information repository dedicated to Knowledge, Content, Information, and Identity Management.
Knowledge Management News™ is a no cost information repository and occasional newsletter focused on Knowledge, Content, Information, and Identity Management. The purpose is simple; to provide news and insights for and about the Knowledge/Information Management practitioner.
An important construct that is gaining acceptance is that of Identity Management; especially relevant to KM is Digital Identity Management. The combining of KM with DIdM makes inter and intra organizational knowledge sharing possible in a secure, reliable, and effective manner. The addition of DIdM to KM brings into play the added dimensions of access control, context, presence, and trust credentials, thus providing even greater relevance to the KM process.
The KM News web site is being updated to help make it easier to manage and provide timely content. While the update is taking place some of the old trusty content is not available. It will be back, really it will.
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Cyril Brookes family has posted a final blog entry on Cyril on BI.
It is with profound sadness that I report the passing of Dr. Cyril Brookes.
Dr. Cyril H. P. Brookes, a pioneer in Knowledge Management and Business Intelligence died in a tragic accident at home on 13 December 2007.
Cyril was a driving force in Australian information Systems having been the Manager of IS at BHP (CIO equivalent) and then being appointed the first professor of IS at the University of New South Wales. In 1989 Cyril’s pioneering work at UNSW led to the creation of Grapevine Technologies Ltd, one of the first KM/BI systems that specialized in management of tacit information in corporations. grapeVINE evolved into one of the earliest corporate portal products and is now part of the Sun Microsystems Inc. product portfolio.
Recently Cyril had focused his attention on BI with his blog, Cyril on Business Intelligence and his company BI Pathfinder. This recent focus never let his passion for tacit knowledge management ebb, but brought a new dimension to business decision making through tacit Knolwedge Managment and Business Intelligence.
Cyril contributed an incredible amount of passion, research, writing and evangelism to the KM and BI conversation. He has touched countless lives and leaves a rich legacy. He could have retired and left KM/BI behind, but instead he chose to include his passion for his family, friends and colleagues along with KM/BI in his daily life. Cyril will be greatly missed by all who experienced his unique life.
Via Con Dios Cyril!
Is intuition in business enough?
The Wall Street Journal yesterday (23 October 2007) had an interesting article/interview with Tom Davenport about business intuition vs. business intelligence. The article, Understanding What You Know (subscription may be required) doesn’t discount intuition, but it more correctly focuses on how organizations are now actively using the data about their business or their customers to generate knowledge that can help them create a competitive advantage.
The KM space has morphed over the last few years from a focus on tacit knowledge to the point where business intelligence (decision support) systems are on equal footing with tacit knowledge. The relationships/trust/leverage of collective tacit knowledge has not diminished in value, but sifting through organizational data to understand cause and effect, value pricing, and relationships between decisions often proves a more potent “sale” of KM in organizations than does the more ethereal “tacit” knowledge.
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