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Day: October 6, 2008

Knowledge Management Job Trends

I just discovered SimplyHired that tracks employment trends based on US data, which shows remarkable come back on jobs related to knowledge management. However, it reports typical salaries of $58,000 and further analysis is required to understand how it is calculated. On SimplyHired’s defence, they clearly states that average knowledge management salaries can vary greatly due to company, location, industry, experience and benefits. This salary was calculated using the average salary for all jobs with the term "knowledge management" anywhere in the job listing. Above method raises serious questions about the validity of the calculation. But in the absence of…

Knowledge Management – what’s happening?

Here are some quotes I lifted off an old IBM slide pack published by Jennifer Okimoto and uploaded to Slideshare.net by Elusa (Luis Suarez) on Knowledge Management (KM): You can’t manage knowledge – nobody can. What you can do is to manage the environment in which knowledge can be created, discovered, captured, shared, distilled, validated, transferred, adopted, adapted and applied.” Chris Collison and Geoff Parcell, Learning to Fly: Practical Knowledge Management from Leading and Learning Organizations “…if you ask someone, or a body for specific knowledge in the context of a real need it will never be refused. If you…