Topic: Knowledge Management

The Social Capital Investment Strategy

Fast Interview: Tech observer and former VC Eric Litman, who recently founded Medialets, an ad delivery platform for native mobile applications, on why a million friends can be more valuable than a million bucks.READ MORE›

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Wealth of Ideas

Who wants to be a millionaire? Everybody does! But the logic of wealth has changed. A new book argues that three forces are making us rethink the nature of value. And you can take that to the bank.READ MORE›

Why You Should Completely Own Your Law Firm Website

As many companies simply "lease" your design to your firm, it is important to avoid this route and save thousands of dollars.READ MORE›

Dealing With Enterprise Information Overload

We visited HP's original garage to talk with HP Software's VP and General Manager of Information Management, Robin Purohit. He told us about how today's HP is helping solve information-management problems for today's enterprises. Be ...READ MORE›

How Gen Y Can Leverage Social Capital

Social capital, a term that was once limited to and only understood within the field of social science, is now a common term among those in communications and technology fields. Referring to the network of people and the connections between them, social capital is a key tool in social media today. Some people spend...READ MORE›

He Drills for Knowledge

As Texaco taps oil fields all around the world in search of crude, John Old helps the company's 18,000 people tap their collective brainpower -- and the ideas to help the company operate faster and more productively.READ MORE›

Social Capital 101

Social Capital 101 “Let me introduce you to someone who might be able to help you.” Some people build their entire reputation around this one line. As Malcolm Gladwell outlined in his breakthrough work, The Tipping Point, those who say this line most often are called Connectors. Essentially, Connectors are match makers. They have an enormous amount of…READ MORE›

Innovation Inside Out

There has been some very interesting research on the impacts of intellectual capital on innovation. Specifically, Subramaniam & Youndt studied the impacts of three forms of IC on two forms of innovation. Their findings were ...READ MORE›

Innovation With a Little Help from Your Friends

Community and Web 2.0 continue to be a recurrent theme in many of the conversations I have with innovation leaders.  Helping innovation workers leverage each other is extremely important.  The value of intellectual assets within ...READ MORE›

Social Capital and Friend 2.0

What is the meaning of a friend in the digital space? Does the definition of a friend change from one social network to another? Is a friend on Facebook any different than a MySpace friend? The value of user connections vary from one social network to another, which ultimately impacts social capital building strategies. Let’s first examine the differences between two...READ MORE›

Building Your Company's Intellectual Capital Pool

As described in a previous posting today, researchers categorize Intellectual Capital (IC) as human (brilliant individuals), social (collaborating groups), and organizational (patents and databases). If your company is interested in ...READ MORE›

If It's All About the People....

We've heard it so many times we sometimes want to puke: it's all about the people. People are our biggest asset. Without a laser-sharp focus on human capital, we are worthless as a company. Yadda yadda. Part of our cynicism comes not ...READ MORE›

Law Firm Marketing and Content Management Systems

We hope we have provided useful information as we have shown you how writing articles is a valuable way to build links to your law firm’s website.READ MORE›

Ideas.com

Context Integration is a fast-growing company with lots of bright ideas -- and a Web-based knowledge network to test, track, capture, and share those ideas.READ MORE›

Insurance Marketing and Online Website Editors

Over the last few weeks, we have provided useful information about how writing articles is a valuable way to build links to your insurance website. READ MORE›

What's Delaying the Fruits of National R&D Dollars?

In 1980, the United States Congress passed the Bayh-Dole Act--also known as the University and Small Business Patent Procedures Act--which was intended to help universities and national laboratories bring technology to the ...READ MORE›

Strategy as if Knowledge Mattered

Managing knowledge is hot! Before we get carried away, why not stop to link knowledge and strategy?READ MORE›

Are Wind Farms Further Dividing Socio-Economic Classes?

Fresh opposition to wind farms from the U.K.'s elite causes concern for the future of alternative energy and social disparities.READ MORE›

No ray of sunlight is ever lost - We need to capture our knowledge By Robin Trehan

We have an aspiration to be the best and we want to do it while making sure we are building on our corporate knowledge. We want to be certain that the knowledge which the organizations have gained over the decade’s remains in the ...READ MORE›

IT: Friend or Foe of Innovation?

Kathy Harris of Gartner muses on the connection between innovation and knowledge management, the disappointment many organizations feel over their knowledge management initiatives, and the promise of social networking software to ...READ MORE›

Great Minds Write Alike

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Creating a Learning-Driven Culture

P. Arun Prasad is a Ph.D. candidate at the Indian Institute of Technology's Department of Management Studies in Madras, India. At ICCS 2004, he presented a paper co-authored with Dr. T.J. Kamalanabhan which explores the human ...READ MORE›

Free Thinks

Through Sept. 19, Emerald Group Publishing is offering free access to several recent issues of the Journal of Knowledge Management. It's a pretty good deal -- a steal -- as the peer-reviewed quarterly usually runs almost $1,400 a ...READ MORE›

Legal Marketing Plans Can be Set Back by Content Management Systems

Content management systems are nice but using the wrong one may hinder your search engine performance.READ MORE›

A Taxonomy for Knowledge Management

The Kaieteur Institute for Knowledge Management has developed an interesting model that might be the start of a solid taxonomy for knowledge management. Considering digital knowledge exchanges and their knowledge business models, the ...READ MORE›