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Organizational Learning and Knowledge Management
(My Research Interest)
I have now accumulated a whole host of sites on this topic. The field really exploded in the 1990s, and more and more companies, consultants, and academics are expressing/advertising their views over the Web.
The format has undergone many changes over the years. While most of my research was complete by 1999, I can send to you my reading list in "raw" form. Just send me an email with your request.
*This site was listed, amongst many other useful resources in Knowledge Management, in The Knowledge Management Yearbook 1999-2000 (thanks to Robert Magnan for compiling the list and including mine!!!)
*Page last updated on June 10, 2023
Note that, unless otherwise specifically noted, information listed here is as-is and is NOT intended as an endorsement of any ideology, individual, group, organization, or institution.
Institutions, Communities, and Organizations
A Business Researcher's Interests: Management & Technology Resource
Association for Talent Development
"When you join ATD, you’ll unlock a world of professional opportunities that will empower you to reach your full potential. Our community is dedicated to supporting you on your journey toward career advancement and professional growth."
"The Information Society uses information and generates data. These data are stored in large and fast-growing databases and represent the challenge of exploiting these data to enhance planning, prediction, and decision making. The Bayesian Knowledge Discovery Project aims at developing methods and tools, based on sound statistical theories, to take up this challenge."
Education Development Center (EDC): Youth and Workforce Development
"Equipping young people around the world to navigate in the worlds of work."
Centre for Research in Employment and Technology in Europe (CREATE)
"CREATE is an independent centre which carries out research, consultancy and public speaking assignments for multi-national companies, European governments and the EC.
We specialize in research on the future of work, organization and society. Subjects that have received special attention in recent years include: leadership development; labor market flexibility in general and mindset flexibility in particular; HR development and company competitiveness; culture change, especially how not to do it; coaching and mentoring; improving employability; knowledge management; talent management.
Its research forms the basis of high profile reports which attract widespread coverage on radio, TV and in newspapers."
"One-stop portal for KM and Intellectual Capital experts worldwide - Professional networks, live knowledge response center, research, trends, news, World Intellectual Capital Exchange (wICx), publishing services, and home of the KM Certification Program."
International Knowledge Management Institute
"The Global Leader in KM Certification and Training"
Kaieteur Institute for Knowledge Management
"Mission: To share and transfer the results of our deep study, learning, and continuous mastery of knowledge management, with individuals, teams, and organizations, so that together we can develop the competence to solve knowledge management problems with confidence and skill."
Knowledge Management Consortium International
"The KMC is a non-profit organization founded in 1997 devoted to developing a balanced view of knowledge management from the context of an organization. What we mean by balanced is to define knowledge management as part of a complex adaptive system involving people, processes, and tools. The end result of the KMC's efforts is to provide a practical, measurable application of KM to businesses and other organizations."
The Knowledge Management Forum
"The Knowledge Management Forum, referred to simply as the KM Forum has been established to promote a better understanding of an emerging concept that has come to be referred to as 'Knowledge Management.'
What is KM - A summary of discussions on that knowledge management is and isn't. The initial thoughts were provided by the KM Forum's host, Bo Newman. Additional thoughts on the topic by members of the KM Forum have been, and will continue to be added as they are expressed by the KM Forum participants."
The World Cafe: The World Café is also a growing global community of people, groups, organizations, and networks using World Café principles and processes to evoke collective intelligence and link it to effective action in pursuit of common aims.
Articles, Blogs, Journals, and Similar Resources
An Assessment of the Knowledge Processing Environment in an Organisation - A Case Study (dissertation by Daniel Vlok, January, 2004 - 3.0MB in size)
Knowledge Cast by Enterprise Knowledge (podcast): "Knowledge Cast looks into the world of Knowledge Management through interviews with advocates in the industry and people who have implemented knowledge management in their organization."
Portals and KM
"This blog shares ideas and hopes to generate discussion on the use of portals, blogs, and knowledge management to provide value to organizations through practical applications. New trends and technologies are covered with a switch to art, music, travel, and food on the weekends."
Transferring Knowledge-Based Technology into an Organization
Consultants and Other Related Product/Service Companies
"Celemi helps companies rapidly improve business performance through their people."
Cornerstone
"As the only full-function on-demand solution currently available, Cornerstone makes user-configuration, and rapid, low-risk global implementation a reality today. No software to install. No vendor negotiations necessary. Your hardware or ours.
Cornerstone provides an extensible platform to build completely integrated Learning Management, Performance Management, Content Management, and Compliance Management systems in any order, at any time; and enables you to more effectively leverage your workforce and improve organizational performance now - not months into the future."
Corporate University Xchange Inc.
"Corporate University Xchange, Inc. is an education research and consulting firm that assists organizations in optimizing their education and training resources."
David Skyrme Associates (Knowledge Connections)
"David Skyrme Associates is a worldwide network of experts in the application of global networked information and communications technologies for innovation and sustainable growth. We are helping to create the dynamic, wealth-creating global knowledge networks of the 21st century. Our primary domains of expertise are:
Knowledge Management...
Telework, Teletrade, and Telecooperation...
Telework Development...
The Internet..."
E-Office (German)
e-office helps organizations improve working processes of employees and raise their productivity by providing them with a digital working environment, including the right portal solutions. Solutions that optimally assist employees in performing their complex, knowledge-intensive activities and which support them to take more and better decisions. This increases the distinctive power of an organization.
"Evolving the State of Your Business with Knowledge Portals: Our deep technical knowledge, globally leading knowledge management design services, and suite of cutting edge technology capabilities will help you realize the promise of enterprise knowledge."
"ENTOVATION International is the hub of a worldwide network of experts in the new methods of Knowledge Innovation (sm)...In the dynamic competitive environments of the 1990s, ENTOVATION INTERNATIONAL can help you develop and implement winning strategies through our in-depth competences in:
Knowledge Management, Innovation Strategy, Learning Networks, Economic Collaboration, Customer Innovation; Value-Systems, not Value-Chain; Technology Transfer, 'Community of Practice', Enterprise Transformation, Strategy Performance."
Guru is the all-in-one tool that keeps your team connected and puts all the information they need in one place.
"Imaginatik is a software development and management consulting company specialised in knowledge management. Our focus is on the areas of high strategic value for large multinational organisations, namely management of innovation and business control."
Intellectual Capital Services, Ltd.
"Intellectual Capital Services Ltd. develops customized services for the identification, visualization, and measurement of growth and decline in "hidden assets" not captured in the company's balance sheet or P&L statement. We refer to these hidden assets as Intellectual Capital."
Knova (from Ignite Tech)
"Knowledge Management Solution: Knova helps large customer service and support organizations handle complex queries across channels."
"KEE, Inc is an international consulting firm that moves companies from the confining model of the industrial era into the dynamic teaming approach of the Knowledge Era. Kee Inc. focuses on discovering the significant relationships between knowledge and values."
Knowledge Sharing Systems: KSS TechTracS is flexible business infrastructure software that enables our customers to more efficiently and effectively manage their technology development process from the point of idea through to commercialization.
"Combining business intelligence, alerts, and workflow to keep you informed on what matters most.
Learnativity (tm)
"Forget what you know about learning and training. If you're not helping people become productive, you're missing the point.
This site provides an introduction to this revolutionary notion and keeps you up to date on what Marcia Conner and Wayne Hodgins are up to while promoting the concept of Learnativity."
Macroinnovation Associates, LLC
"Macroinnovation Associates is primarily in the business of providing in-house practitioners with the tools required to enhance organizational learning, knowledge processing, and innovation. This is why we sometimes refer to ourselves as 'an innovation methodology shop.' Our 'product,' if you like, is a methodology -- the Macroinnovation Method (aka, the "Policy Synchronization Method) -- which we provide to our clients through licenses. The Macroinnovation Method currently holds patent-pending status in the U.S."
Manufacturing Technology Strategies
"Manufacturing Technology Strategies, Inc. is headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri. We have people who help people become lifetime learners, able both to understand and to independently keep up with the rapidly changing technology that defines their jobs. If your goal is to convert your company into a 'learning organization' with effective 'knowledge management,' we can help.
Providing Industry with a way to get people able to do what Industry needs to have done. Powerful, effective, customized training systems installed at your site."
"Keeping Service and Manufacturing Organizations in motion™"
"For more than 40 years, we have been providing consulting and training services to the Global 1000. We help organizations build new capabilities, save money, and grow. We focus on three progressive strategies: Operational Excellence, Innovation, and Leadership Development. We pioneered the implementation of Lean and TPM methodologies in manufacturing in the late 1970s. Since then, we have extended these methodologies across a wide range of industries, including healthcare, finance, and other service industries."
Society for Organizational Learning
"SoL, the Society for Organizational Learning, is an intentional learning community composed of organizations, individuals, and local SoL communities around the world. A not-for-profit, member-governed corporation, SoL is devoted to the interdependent development of people and their institutions in service of inspired performance and meaningful results. SoL serves as a space in which individuals and institutions can create together that which they cannot create alone."
"Delivering Insight-Driven Decision Intelligence. We have a simple idea: get the right insights to the right person at the right time - automatically. It's like the nervous system of your enterprise."
"TFPL is an international information management company offering training, consultancy, recruitment and executive search, conferences and seminars to the information market...Our strength is our understanding of how people and organizations can use information and knowledge to stimulate creativity and innovation, and to make decisions."
"Mission critical knowledge, delivered - an intelligent LCMS platform for the development, management, delivery, and syndication of content, at scale."
Other Resource Pages
Information Systems and Innovation (London School of Economics and Political Science)
Pushing the frontier of knowledge in business and management.
Knowledge Management Links: (Ann Macintosh: Commercial Director, Artificial Intelligence Applications Institute (United Kingdom))
This site gives a good overview of the knowledge management field and its issues. It includes links to related websites, applications, tools, references, mailing lists, and events. You can also check out more information at the related Corporate Knowledge Management Survey.
Stan Garfield: Knowledge Management
Knowledge management author, speaker, and community leader
Professors, Researchers, Lecturers, etc... (refresh TBD)
Van de Ven, Andrew H., Ph.D.: Vernon H. Heath Chair of Organizational Innovation and Change CSOM Strategic Mgmt & Org
Senge, Peter, Ph.D.: The founding chairperson of Society of Organizational Learning (SoL) and a senior lecturer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology"
Wegner, Etienne, Ph.D.: "I am an independent thinker, researcher, consultant, author, and speaker. I am mostly known for my work on communities of practice, though I consider myself a social learning theorist more generally. Theoretically, my work focuses on social learning systems. I am trying to understand the connection between knowledge, community, learning, and identity. The basic idea is that human knowing is fundamentally a social act. This simple observation has profound implications for the way we think of and attempt to support learning."
