Community of Knowledge - the Platform for Knowledge Management

Since more than ten years the Community of Knowedge is publishing about Knowledge Management and its issues. Meanwhile it reaches a broad German speaking community. Now we want to go beyond the scope of the German speaking borders, widen our community and bring together discussions and best practices about a topic which concerns all of us. Knowledge Management is on a global scale and it will affect our future business as well as private life in many ways.

Some content is already translated, especially in our Service and Community category. We will not translate all our articles but strive towards more new english content. To broaden our community we need your help in contributing with new articles and stories about what knowledge management does to you. If you are interested in joining, contact info@community-of-knowledge.de 

Call for Papers Call for Papers

5. March 2012, by Shaked Spier

Our 3rd Call for Papers is now open:

"Tops and Flops - Case Studies for Knowledge Management"

This time we want to know what has been your experience with knowledge management in your organization. What has worked out well? What actions and ideas have led to success? However, in the interest of our readers we also want to learn what has been a disappointment or even a complete failure. We've extended the deadline to March 31, 2012! We gladly accept papers from new authors that haven't published in the Community of Knowledge yet.

To maximize the benefit to our readers, we decided to provide a structure for the paper. This makes it easier for the reader to quickly find the relevant content and compare the case studies. At the same time, we hope to make it easier for new authors to contribute to this call.

Authors can be extern as well as intern employees of the organisation at hand. In cases of failure, the name of the organisation can be anonymized. :-)

Use our good name in the KM-Scene for your advantage! Receive a feedback from an internationaly Jury! The best papers will be published the next issue of the Open Journal of Knowledge Management.

Further information is available under: Call for Papers.

Illustrations: (C) Gerd Altmann / PIXELIO

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We're the best! Sponsors for the Community of Knowledge wanted

14. March 2012, by Shaked Spier

Since last year the C-o-K is financed and operated by the Intakt Umwelt Stiftung. We can maintain the Community of Knowledge, its service and its content only with a minimum expenditure of time and costs. However, we would like to be independent from one financer and we have many further ideas that we wish realize. Pumacy Technologies AG has registered as our first sponsor and we are looking forward to get in contact with new ones.

We offer various sponsoring and advertisement options with immediate effect. Our Newsletter, the Open Journal and even your own page with a detailed description of your firm - all these and many further options are available. Also providers of seminars and workshops can publish their services in the Calendar. In the last 12 years the Community of Knowledge has become a well-known and highly frequented platform.

Unfortunately, the deadline for an 'early bird discount' (March 11, 2012) is over. Nevertheless, you will find the various sponsoring opportunities and prices very attractive. And by the way - your sponsor-fee reduces as you renew your contract!

Further information is available in our Advertising Rates.

Paper Paper

Visionary Knowledge Management: Trends and Strategies

12. Dezember 2011 by Ingo Frost, Kathrin Frank

The authors of this article address the question of how organizations will deal with knowledge in 2020. For this purpose, they first analyzed national and international knowledge management conferences, publications and Internet publications to locate knowledge management visionaries. Four visionaries are mentioned, due to their keynotes and their publications on knowledge management trends: David Griffiths, Dave Snowden, David Gurteen and Norbert Gronau. They are presented here along with their theories and visions for dealing with knowledge. Following the presentation, these theories are compared and discussed. [more]

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Accredited Online Colleges on the Rise

19. February 2012 by Nick Johnson

The Internet is revolutionizing higher education: accredited online colleges are growing in size, traditional colleges are adopting online programs, and all trends indicate that distance learning is not only here to stay, but that it will make an unprecedented impact on the educational systems currently in place today. What kind of change will online college courses provoke in the paradigms of students, professors, and educational institutions in the coming years? Let’s take a look. [more]

Paper Open Journal

18. October 2011 by Daphne Gross
This year only German papers made it into our best of. The fourth Journal of Knowledge Management presents the most popular articles by our readers.

Open Journal of Knowledge Management, Issue IV/2011: 
Knowledge Management in Theory and Pracitice. Recommondations our Readers

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The hype, the hope and the LOD2: Sören Auer engaged in the next generation LOD

Dr. Auer was interviewed by the Semantic Web Company

16. June 2011 by Dr. Sören Auer,  Thomas Thurner

The paneuropean Project LOD2 (Linking Open Data) is one of the biggest projects dealing with linked data. Scientists, programmers and software architects in various european countries are working on the next generation of linked open data. In a series of interviews Thomas Thruner of the Semantic Web Company (SWC) is presenting people working on and with LOD2. As a start SWC talked to Sören Auer, head of the LOD2 project. [more]

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Knowledge Management and Communication Strategy

Case study about a Knowledge Management project at West Africa Water Initiative (WAWI)

16. May 2011 by Ewen Le Borgne,  Jaap Pels

A team visited and interviewed implementing partners on the ground in Ghana, Mali and Niger to document their experiences within West Africa Water Initiative (WAWI). The aim of these missions was literally to find facts, to collect documentation and figure out what lessons have been learned. These fact-finding missions have provided invaluable insights. They have been incorporated in this document which formulates a feasible and practical strategy on knowledge management and communication for WAWI and its successor projects in West Africa. [more]

Paper Open Journal

16. May 2011 by Daphne Gross
Work experience abroad is almost taken for granted. However in international collaboration cultural and language barriers appear in work routine every day. In our call for papers we asked: How does knowledge management look like beyond borders?

Open Journal of Knowledge Management, Issue III/2011: 
Knowledge Management Beyond Borders - Globalization and Cultural Identity

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Spoilt for Choice - Wiki Software for Knowledge Management in Organisations

31. March 2011 by Redaktion, Daphne Gross, Ingo Frost

The article presents the most popular wiki solutions and provides an analysis of features and functionalities based on organisational needs for the management of knowledge. All wiki solutions are compared to usability, search function, structuring and validation of knowledge. [more]

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Design & the Implementation of Knowledge Management System

Case study: Saveh rolling & profile Mills company

21. February 2011 by Yasaman Farashahian, Amin Abbasi

Business enterprises typically are valued at the net tangible assets recorded on their books. When the market value of a firm succeeds its book value, conventional stock market theory regards the premium as the market’s assessment of intangible assets or intellectual capital of the firm. Svieby classified intellectual capital into three categories: employee competence, internal structure and external structure. The managing and measuring of intellectual capital are widely discussed in commercial applications. The implementation of key factors in intangible assets using indicators in day-to-day operations highlights the company’s value in creating processes. Many other firms apply similar frameworks in managing their intellectual capital, for example: Exxon Chemical’s, “Learning Forums”; World Bank’s, “Communities of Practice”; Toyota’s, “Alignment Rooms”; Ryder Trucks’, “Knowledge Center”; Allied Signal’s, “Mental Model Learn”; and Scott Paper’s “Real Bottom-Line Customer Service”. The purpose of this paper is to explore how an organization can adopt the concept of knowledge management and subsequently measure the intellectual capital - specifically in our company. [more] 

Call for Papers Call for Papers

The topic of our new Call for Papers is

Knowledge Management Beyond Borders - Globalization and Cultural Identity

10. December 2010 by Daphne Gross

We invite you to submit articles about cross-cultural aspects of knowledge management. How are innovations affected by national and regional differences ? Which challenges are waiting for international organizations? Do we already have the solutions or are we still searching? [more]

Paper Paper

Contrasting Leadership Development Techniques to that of a Transactional Organization compared to a Transformational Organization 

Which of the leadership styles are better in today’s business environment?

26. October 2010 by Greg Procknow

This paper works to support the commonly held assumption held by most leaders today, that most businesses i.e. Johnson & Johnson (J&J) are in fact a transformational organization that employs only transformational leaders. Further, this paper works to support other assumptions that most military organizations demonstrate a transactional leadership approach, in which they would employ transactional leaders. First we begin with a brief comparison of transactional and transformational leadership styles. Then provided is a brief overview of the training methods employed by the Canadian Armed Forces to train their potential leaders into transformational leaders, as well the benefits of each training program and how they develop new transformational leader competencies as a direct result of being participants. Then discussed are the leadership development training programs offered by J&J and their respective benefits to the participant’s. [more] 

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“We are on the verge of a new form of knowledge management”

interview with Dr. Richard Straub, Senior Advisor of the Chairman of IBM in Europe, Middle East and Africa

01. October 2010 by Dr. Richard Straub 

The congress Professional Learning Europe will take place in Cologne from October 12th to 14th. The organizer talked to Dr. Richard Straub about learning in the Enterprise 2.0. [more] 

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Study "Information 2015" 

Reforming the paradigm

07. August 2010 by  accenture,  Z_punkt GmbH 

Organizations need the right information at the right time to make accurate decisions and to optimize business processes. Yet the role of information, and the way an organization’s employees interact with that information, is rapidly changing. With this continuous challenge to established paradigms, organizations need to rethink their whole approach to information management if they are to remain innovative and competitive. Working with forecasting consultancy Z_punkt Accenture evaluates the key trends that will shape information practices in the near future and provides thought-provoking insight into how organizations might successfully manage information as a means to achieve high performance. [more] 

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Knitting the kNet - Towards a Global Net of Knowledge

29. March 2010 by Heiko Haller 

kNet is the vision of a future knowledge-sharing platform. In a fictitious scenario, this article describes how certain semantic Internet services could support scientific knowledge sharing and leverage knowledge transfer. In the following discussion, the core features of this platform are discussed and compared with existing state of the art systems. [more]