Key Issues in the New Knowledge Management

The issues the book addresses are central in the field today:
* The Knowledge Wars, or the issue of "how you define knowledge determines how you manage it"
* The nature of knowledge processing
* Information management or knowledge management?
* Three views on the evolution of knowledge management
* The role of knowledge claim evaluation in knowledge processing, or the difference between opinion, judgements, information, data, and real knowledge in knowledge management systems
* Is culture a barrier in knowledge management?
* The Open Enterprise and accelerated sustainable innovation
* Portals
* How should one evaluate KM software?
* Intellectual Capital
* Measuring the impact of KM initiatives on the organization and the bottom line
* KM and terrorism

Audience: Chief Knowledge Officers, knowledge management practitioners and academics, knowledge management consultants and students.

Member of the Board of Directors and the Executive Committee of the Knowledge Management Consortium International (KMCI); Director of the Knowledge and Innovation Management Certification Program (CKIM); Director, KMCI Research Center; Editor-in-Chief, 'Knowledge and Innovation: Journal of the KMCI'; KMCI Secretary/Governing Council KMCI Institute.

Mark W. McElroy is president of the Knowledge Management Consortium International (KMCI), the largest professional association of KM practitioners in the world. He is a thought leader, consultant, and award-winning author in the fields of knowledge management, organizational learning, intellectual capital, and innovation. He is a twenty-five year veteran of management consulting, including time spent at Price Waterhouse and KPMG Peat Marwick. While at KPMG, he served as U.S. National Partner-In-Charge of the Enterprise Networks practice. Mr. McElroy’s career in knowledge management also includes time spent as a Principal in IBM’s Knowledge Management practice in Cambridge, MA.At present, Mr. McElroy is managing a small boutique called Macroinnovation Associates, LLC, created as a platform for the development of his latest work. MacroinnovationSM is an executable business model for organizational learning and innovation developed independently by Mr. McElroy and a colleague of his from academia. The Macroinnovation method (aka, the ‘policy synchronization method’) currently holds patent-pending status in the U.S. See www.macroinnovation.com for further details.