Knowledge management: A selective guide to resources
Ferguson, Christine
The knowledge management (KM) discipline is growing rapidly. One of the best ways to keep up is through sites on the World Wide Web. Larger frames of discourse are better handled through monographs on KM topics. These two categories form the emphasis of this guide to KM resources. (See also references in William SaHady, Knowledge Management: An Overview on page 4.)
Portals and Mega-Sites
These are sites that serve as a gateway to KM sites, contain a large volume of information about KM and links to other sites, or both. Open Directory Project References on KM (sites identified and evaluated before posting), http://dmoz.org/ reference/knowledge_management/. Some 400 KM sites divided into six sections and areas of specialty; lists KM sites with short descriptions
IKM Corporation, www.kmresource. com. A strong and well-organized site with 16 sections of different resource categories (i.e., Introduction to KM, Case Studies, Professional Organizations); a gateway to 131 KM books [as of May 29, 2000] available via Amazon.com
Knowledge Management Central, Institute of Public Policy, George Mason University, Virginia, www. icasit.org/km. Links to many other KM sites, books, journal articles, and events such as conferences; links to companies involved in KM initiatives; links in categories such as “KM Tools” and “KM Glossary”
Net Academy of Knowledge Media, www.knowledgemedia.org. Direct access to many documents and articles, carefully selected links, useful annotations WWW Virtual Library for Knowledge Management, www.brint.com. Compiled by Dr. Yogesh Malhotra. This is one of the larger and older sites (some areas kept better up to date than others).
Brint Network, www.brint.com/km. Knowledge management reference area
www.brint.com/km/kmrefs.htm. KM bibliography
-, www.brint.com/papers. KM articles www.brint.com/wwwboard/www board.html. Business and technology discussion forum
-1 www.brintstore.com/books/index. html. KM resources for sale
KIVI Sites: Current Awareness
Knowledge Management, www.kmmag. co.utk/. “Site Watch” section of magazine identifies and comments on new KM sites on the Web
Basic KM Theories and Precepts
Knowledge Management Consortium International, www.kmci.org. Basic philosophy and concepts of KM; offers a monthly lessons-learned e-journal of stories about KM in organizations: Iljournal@kmci.org www.eknowledgecenter.org. Focused on becoming a certified knowledge manager (CKM), publishing articles and papers, list of recommended readings, links of interest, registration for classes (distance mode and face-to-face) for certification, and notice of conferences
Knowledge Management World Online, www.kmworld.com. News, events, publications, resources, buyer’s guide
Information Society Commission, www.infosocomm.ie/projects.htm. KM initiatives in Ireland, Europe, and the rest of the world
Knowledge Online, www.knowledge. org.uk. Conferences, links
Academic Sources
University of Texas at Austin Knowledge Management Server, www.bus.utexas.edu/kman. Extensive lists of books, articles, and publications on KM; includes some basic definitions of knowledge management and its principles
University of California at Berkeley, www. haas. berkeley. edu/- imi ol conference/links.html. Knowledge Creation and Transfer: The Second Annual U.C. Berkeley Forum on Knowledge and the Firm
Harvard Business School Publishing, www.hbsp.harvard.edu/ideasatwork/ managersites.html. Recommends Web sites for managers; benchmarking, KM, competitive intelligence
Associations and Organizations
Society for Information Management, www.simnet.org. KM subsection Special Libraries Association, www. sia.org/membership/irc/knowledg.html. Selected references to KM with links to Web sites; information on KM software
ARMA International, www.arma.org. KM seminars, books, management briefings
Association for Information and Image Management International, www.aiim.org.Events, education, news, trends
Association for Computing Machinery www.acm.org/siggroup.knowledge. ktm. One of a large number of interest groups in ACM
Serial Publications
Knowledge Management Magazine online, www.kmmag.co.ukl. Current KM news and initiatives, back issues for subscribers from October 1998 forward
Journal of Knowledge Management, http://mcb.co.uk/jkm.htm. Intended for higher-order articles; results of research, offers books reviews and case studies
KM World (formerly Imaging World), www.kmworld.com.
e-Doc magazine, www.aiim.org/edoc. Published by AIIM International
Knowledge Management News, www. kmnews.com.
CIO, Knowledge Research Center, http.//cio.com/forums/knowledge/index. html.
Management Roundtable – online publications, The Critical Path, Best Practices Report (e-mail newsletter), www.roundtable.com/publications.html. American Productivity and Quality Center, CenterView, www.apqc.org/free/ centerview. E-mail newsletter on benchmarking, best practices, leveraging KM; last six issues available online
Information Strategy Online, www.info_ strategy.com/front.cgi. Full text of selected current articles available at no cost; must have a current subscription to retrieve archived articles The Information Management Journal, www.arma.org/publications/journal/ journal about.htm. Regular KM column, occasional articles on KM Journal for the American Society for Information Science, www.asis.org/ Publications/JASIS/jasis.html. Forum for research publications on information transfer and communication processes, in the context of recorded knowledge
Knowledge Manager, www.chironpub. com/current/frontpage.html. KM solutions through enabling technologies; links to KM developers, manufacturers, and analysts
www.thinck.com.KM user stories in Knowledge Manager
InfoWorld, www.infoworld.com.
Electronic Magazines and Online Publications
Cybernetics: International Journal of Scientometrics, Informetrics and Bibliometrics, www.cindoc.csic.es/ cybermetrics. Study of the quantitative analysis of scholarly and scientific communications
Cyber Review: Internet Strategy Executive Newsletter, www.cybermanagement. com/cyber/cyberaug.html. Theory and practice reflections on the present and future of net commerce
Online Inc. Research, www.online inc.com. Resource guide to online magazines, conferences, and services; magazines include ONLINE; Econtent; Emedia
International KM Newsletter, www. mjm.co.uk/knowledge. Subscription information, current issue online
Intelligent Enterprise Magazine, www.intelligententerprise.com. Section on KM; for managers of businesscritical applications and data; print edition available by subscription
Binary Thoughts, www.binarythoughts. com/km/index.cfm. E-zine with a subsection on KM; top stories and recent events in KM
Knowledge Management News (Hoyt Consulting), www.kmnews.com
IBM Think Leadership, www.ibm. com/thinkmag. IBM’s knowledge management and leadership newsletter online; archived articles from selected years
IBM News Clippings, www.ibm.com/ services/clippings/summary_ category_40056.htm.
KM Consultants
Arthur Andersen Consulting, www.ac.com/services/knowledge/km_ home.html
Grant Thornton, United States, www.gt.com
Grant Thornton International, www.gti.org
Arrowhead Systems Consulting, www.jeffgarner.com
KPMG, www.kpmg.com
Delphi Group, www.delphigroup.com
GartnerGroup, www.gartner12.gartner web.com.public/static/home/home.html
Ernst and Young, http.11business innovation.ey.com/research/rese,arch.html
Smith, Weaver, Smith, www.smith weaversmith.com/resource.htm. Provides good annotated list of KM journals
Hoyt Consulting, un.kmnews.com TFPL (UK), www.tfpl.com
Business and Management Sites with KM Links
The Management Roundtable, www.roundtable.com. Information resources for product development professionals
Sales and Field Force Automation online, www.sffaonline.com. KM for sales and marketing
www.kpmginsiders.com, Knowledge management for the insurance industry
American Management Association, www.amanet.org
Work Space International Ltd, www.workspaceinternational.com. Provides links to sites, books, articles, and information on KM
Quinary, www.quinary.it/mainareas/ knowledge management.html. Links to KM and language technologies
Gensym Corp., www.gensym.com/ company/links.htm. Links to resources and organizations on control, automation, and management
Sites Associated with Major KM Figures
Sveiby Knowledge Management (focuses on his and others’ KM publications), www.sveiby.com.au. Virtual library, publications; major bibliography at: www.sveiby.com.au/ KMref40.html
Thomas Stewart, author of Welcome to Intellectual Capital: the New Wealth of Organizations, www.members.aol. com/thosstew/.
Knowledge Research Institute (Schema Press, Karl and Elisabeth Wiig), www.krii.com. Articles, diagrams on KM, links, but mostly their own work on KM
Telos, www.knowledgebusiness.com. The KM site of Rory Chase, well-known consultant in KM. Large set of links to other sites; also site of KNOW network for KM practitioners to share lessons learned/best practices
Buckman Laboratories (an enthusiastic adopter of KM), www.knowledgenurture.com (“The Buckman Room”). Designed and created to encourage and enable those who want to become involved with KM; offers a starter kit of KM articles; the library section provides excellent access to Web resources
David Skyrme (UK consultant), www.skyrme.com. Rich but complex site; focuses on reports by Skyrme in the area of KM implementation; useful “curriculum” material to learn about KM
Software Sites
www.inquiry.com. Answers information professionals; forums for software questions; conferences, magazines, downloaded software
DevX: Information service, www.devx.com. The Development Exchange; library of software available for download; product guide
Best Practices in KM
Best Practices, LLC, www.best_ in class.com/forums/. Best practices research, benchmarking studies, consultation, networking opportunities, KM
Focus on Intellectual Capital Knowinc.com, www.knowinc.com. Means to accelerate the value-adding capacities of intangible assets; knowledge management links and library; KM events calendar
Human Source, www.humansource. com. Human intellectual capital; articles, books, links
ICEX – Intellectual Capital Development Firm, www.icex.com. Intellectual capital and knowledge management news and events; research, projects, links
Other Knowledge Management Sites
Knowledge Transfer International, www.ktic.com. News and information relating to all aspects of KM; knowledge centers, archives, publications, white papers, and knowledge links www.kmonline.com. Focuses on the technology behind KM and the companies creating that technology
KM World Conference and Exposition, www.kmexpo.com
Logistics Management Institute, www.lmi.org. Assists government and nonprofit organizations
Artificial Intelligence Applications Institute, University of Edinburgh, www.aiai.ed.ac.uk/~am/kamlnks.html. Artificial intelligence applications in KM
ECz – USC, www.ec2.edu/kworld/ knowledge/
Book reviews at www.sl.webtrax.com. au/BB/Topic/Knowledge.bbd#top.
Additional Sites
There are links to 114 Web sites relevant to KM accessible from “Records and Information Management Resource List,’ sponsored by the Rio Grande Chapter of ARMA, available at www.arms.org/resources/resources.htm
Discussion List km@mccmedia.com
Books
Note: Many books on KM have been published in recent years. Excellent bibliographic access to them is provided in several of the Web sites already noted. Here, then, are several books often quoted or mentioned. (Access to those in print and those to be published is at Amazon.com)
Allee, Verna. The Knowledge Evolution: Expanding Organizational Intelligence. Boston: Butterworth-Heinemann, 1997.
Knowledge Management Consortium Benchmarking Study: Best Practice Report. American Productivity and Quality Center. Houston, Texas,1996. Using Information Technology to Support Knowledge Management, Consortium Benchmarking Study: Best Practice Report. American Productivity and Quality Center. Houston, Texas, 1997.
Choo, C.W. The Knowing Organization: How Organizations Use Information to Construct Meaning, Create Knowledge, and Make Decisions. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.
Davenport, Thomas H. and Laurence Prusak. Information Ecology: Mastering the Information Knowledge Environment. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.
Davenport, Thomas H. and Laurence Prusak. Working Knowledge: How Organizations Manage What They Know. Boston: Harvard Business School Press,1998.
Drucker, Peter F. Post-Capitalist Society. New York: Harper Business, 1993.
-. Managing for the Future: The 2990s and Beyond. New York: Truman Tally Books,1992.
. Managing in a Time of Great Change. New York: Truman Tally Books,1995.
Duffy, Jan. Harvesting Experience: Reaping the Benefits of Knowledge. Prairie Village, KS: ARMA International,1999.
Hudson, William J. Intellectual Capital: How to Build It, Enhance It, Use It. New York: John Wiley,1993.
Leonard, Barton. Wellsprings of Knowledge: Building and Sustaining the Sources of Innovation. Boston: Harvard Business School Press,1995.
Liebowitz, jay and Lyle C. Wilcox, eds. Knowledge Management and its Integrative Elements. Boca Raton, FL.: CRC Press, 1997.
McKinnon, Sharon M., and William J. Bruns. The Information Mosaic. Harvard Business School Series in Accounting and Control. Boston: Harvard Business School Press,1992.
Nonaka, Ikujiro and Hirotaka Takeuchi. The Knowledge-Creating Company: How Japanese Companies Create the Dynamics of Innovation. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.
Polanyi, Michael. The Tacit Dimension. Garden City, New York: Doubleday Anchor,1967.
Tacit Knowledge. New York: Doubleday, 1966.
Prusak, Laurence, ed. Knowledge in Organizations. Resources for the Knowledge-Based Economy. Boston: Butterworth-Heinemann, 1997.
. Knowledge In Organizations (an anthology of articles). “Resources for the Knowledge-Based Economy” Series. Woburn, MA: ButterworthHeinemann, 1997.
Roos, Johan and Georg von Krogh, eds. Organizational Epistemology. New York: Macmillan, 1995.
Saffady, William. Knowledge Management: A Manager’s Briefing. Prairie Village, KS: ARMA International, 1998.
Srihantaiah, T. Kanti and Michael E. D. Koenig. Knowledge Management for the Information Professional. ASIS Monograph Series. Medford, N.J.: Information Today (for ASIS), 2000.
Stewart, Thomas A. Intellectual Capital: The New Wealth of Organizations. New York: Doubleday/ Currency, 1997.
Sveiby, Karl Erik. The New Organizational Wealth: Mangaging & Measuring Knowledge-Based Assets. San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 1997
Wiig, Karl M. Knowledge Management Foundations: Thinking About Thinking
– How People and Organizations Represent, Create and Use Knowledge. Arlington, TX: Schema Press,1993.
-. Knowledge Management Methods: Practical Approaches to Managing Knowledge. Arlington, TX: Schema Press,1995.
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