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“Future Now” – The KM/Knowledge Services Premium Program from SLA and SMR

Guy St. Clair — Wed, 09 May 2012 12:28:35 +0000

Maximizing strategic learning value for program participants, long-time training partners SLA (Special Libraries Association) and SMR (St. Clair Management Resources) continue their relationship with a revised version of their popular KM/Knowledge Services Premium Program. Offered through SLA’s Click U, the program now matches SLA’s new emphasis, moving from last year’s theme of “Future Ready” to this year’s “Future Now,” providing strategic knowledge professionals with critical skills for moving their careers forward. Offered since 2008, the SLA-SMR KMKS Premium Program has been re-designed to connect participants with the now-established role of knowledge management, knowledge services, and knowledge strategy in the…
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Soutron Global’s Roundtable Discussions: Positioning Specialist Librarians (and Other Knowledge Workers) for KM

Guy St. Clair — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 15:15:36 +0000

At Soutron Global‘s recent roundtable discussions in New York and Toronto, the company provided specialist librarians with a valuable opportunity for thinking about career planning. Throughout the so-called “knowledge domain,” knowledge workers are focusing more and more on their relationships with the people they work with. Indeed, one recent comment I heard (sorry – I can’t remember the reference) asserts that “successful KM is not about the knowledge – it’s about the audience.” As I played with that with some of my colleagues, we had a little trouble with the semantics but we didn’t have any trouble with the…
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Want More Responsibility as a Knowledge Worker? Want More Authority? More Recognition?

Guy St. Clair — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 00:56:07 +0000

You like what you’re doing as a knowledge worker. You find employment in the knowledge domain rewarding, and generally speaking there’s professional pride for you, being in a field in which dealing with information, knowledge, and strategic learning contributes to the success of the company where you are employed. But you want to do more, don’t you? You’ve thought about the opportunities coming along, the challenges of “big data” and all the other talk about information and knowledge “overload,” and you want to help solve some of those problems. You’re also drawn to the idea of a leadership position…
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Examining the Knowledge-Sharing/Management Consulting Connection

Guy St. Clair — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 01:20:34 +0000

When we summarize the role of the information or knowledge strategist, we generally say something like this: In every company, knowledge is developed, to be used for the benefit of the company and, when developed, shared wherever that knowledge brings benefit to the company. Managing that knowledge development/knowledge sharing (KD/KS) process is the work of the knowledge strategist. Actionable knowledge is the basis of success in every company, organization, or enterprise. One of my colleagues even uses that “actionable-ness” to define knowledge: “Knowledge,” he says, “is information that is used.” Well said. But then the critical question becomes: How…
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Digital Strategy – Program Announcement

Guy St. Clair — Sun, 25 Mar 2012 21:37:05 +0000

In our business, we speak much about KM, knowledge services, and knowledge strategy. But how often do we think about strategy development in related disciplines? Here’s an opportunity for readers in the New York metropolitan area. On Friday May 4 (6.00 – 8.00 pm) Alex Lirtsman offers an important program at Columbia University, “Creating a Digital Strategy: The Art of Analytics, Measurement, and Success.” Sounds perfect for us, doesn’t it? And I expect Lirtsman’s talk will stimulate our thinking about how the elements of our so-called knowledge domain come together. I for one will be fascinated to learn how…
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