http://www.ikmagazine.com/ The latest headlines and articles from Inside Knowledge Magazine (c) 2008, Ark Group Ltd. All rights reserved. http://www.ikmagazine.com/display.asp?articleid=E2F78613-81F2-45CC-B976-1E31BE858709 http://www.ikmagazine.com/display.asp?articleid=E2F78613-81F2-45CC-B976-1E31BE858709 IN ORDER to improve the productivity of its outside sales employees, the electronics corporation Molex has installed a solution for integrating mobile phones into the PBX. Mon, 3 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://www.ikmagazine.com/display.asp?articleid=0D42E3D7-0424-45BD-974A-23E5C6AF4C0D http://www.ikmagazine.com/display.asp?articleid=0D42E3D7-0424-45BD-974A-23E5C6AF4C0D FORTIFY SOFTWARE Inc., the market leader in enterprise application security solutions for business software assurance, has released its open source security study which reveals most widely used open source software packages are exposing users to significant and unnecessary business risk. Mon, 3 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://www.ikmagazine.com/display.asp?articleid=88C7CECF-AE9C-4DCD-A777-53DFFBDDFA81 http://www.ikmagazine.com/display.asp?articleid=88C7CECF-AE9C-4DCD-A777-53DFFBDDFA81 LOOKING AT the changing global services industry, government intends to support innovation by British businesses. “The UK service economy is now worth £1tr,” said business minister Shriti Vadera. “We are world leaders in many service sectors including design engineering, architecture and environmental consultancy. Mon, 3 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://www.ikmagazine.com/display.asp?articleid=195C2FD6-13DF-448F-8BC7-55C4C3228959 http://www.ikmagazine.com/display.asp?articleid=195C2FD6-13DF-448F-8BC7-55C4C3228959 A RECENT study found that 75 per cent of corporations in Ireland believe KM plays a significant role in improving a company’s competitive advantage. Irish companies are now acknowledging the benefits of moving towards a knowledge economy. Mon, 3 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://www.ikmagazine.com/display.asp?articleid=2134E599-9F5B-46E1-BAFD-62B1AECD32B0 http://www.ikmagazine.com/display.asp?articleid=2134E599-9F5B-46E1-BAFD-62B1AECD32B0 “IMAGINE WHAT it would be like to dare to dream the impossible. To build your intellect. To go beyond, to see more and to take your intelligence, products and services to the next level. To dispute the facts and figures. To challenge the policies of ‘business as usual’. And weave your brilliance together with the most remarkable people representing 70 nations.” Mon, 3 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://www.ikmagazine.com/display.asp?articleid=0385E7B1-56E3-4367-8B8D-676E030A542C http://www.ikmagazine.com/display.asp?articleid=0385E7B1-56E3-4367-8B8D-676E030A542C Knowledge sharing for Avigdor Sharon began in 1984 during a team project to write with the medications compendium for the Israel Pharmaceutical Association. Now he's the new owner of the Association of Knowledgework. Mon, 3 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://www.ikmagazine.com/display.asp?articleid=C053E7E3-F43C-4873-90A0-2995DD47B722 http://www.ikmagazine.com/display.asp?articleid=C053E7E3-F43C-4873-90A0-2995DD47B722 In the past we worked alone. We were not connected. We had no real idea what others were doing – who they were; where they were; what drove them; their thoughts, ideas and aspirations. Mon, 3 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://www.ikmagazine.com/display.asp?articleid=89C62DED-B044-4D6C-9065-085A4E4F54CD http://www.ikmagazine.com/display.asp?articleid=89C62DED-B044-4D6C-9065-085A4E4F54CD “Our lives must be much more and deeper than what we see on the surface. When surface appearances become all we see, then they will become all we know.” – Sidney Poitier, Keynote speaker, Society for Human Resources Management Conference, June 2008, Chicago, Illinois, US Mon, 3 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://www.ikmagazine.com/display.asp?articleid=629787B1-C14A-49D5-A15A-59ABE47E1540 http://www.ikmagazine.com/display.asp?articleid=629787B1-C14A-49D5-A15A-59ABE47E1540 It isn’t about how the question is asked, but where. And the time isn’t right when you have your hands full. Mon, 3 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://www.ikmagazine.com/display.asp?articleid=C530587A-90DB-450D-81FC-59B73F3E6825 http://www.ikmagazine.com/display.asp?articleid=C530587A-90DB-450D-81FC-59B73F3E6825 A seagull manager learns the three virtues of superior management: the right expectations, communication that clicks and hands-on performance. You might call it the KM formula. Mon, 3 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://www.ikmagazine.com/display.asp?articleid=4EF31C2D-C4C1-4636-B288-818CDBD7D03A http://www.ikmagazine.com/display.asp?articleid=4EF31C2D-C4C1-4636-B288-818CDBD7D03A Is there any alternative to knowledge as we understand it? Something that boasts dynamic and changing fundamental patterns, or shifts those patterns in some new way? Over the past few years we’ve come to appreciate the simple beauty of acknowledging knowledge as the capacity (potential or actual) to take effective action in varied and uncertain situations. Mon, 3 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://www.ikmagazine.com/display.asp?articleid=6AD1724A-3AC7-47AA-A7FD-9E0AFFC5E258 http://www.ikmagazine.com/display.asp?articleid=6AD1724A-3AC7-47AA-A7FD-9E0AFFC5E258 A RECENT survey has revealed how e-mail is used in the workplace, establishing user habits when storing electronic information and investigating the extent to which corporate e-mail policies are applied and enforced in the corporate world. Mon, 3 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://www.ikmagazine.com/display.asp?articleid=089F5CB6-C323-4576-B218-0E5125D6DE2E http://www.ikmagazine.com/display.asp?articleid=089F5CB6-C323-4576-B218-0E5125D6DE2E A KM study tour to visit as many as 10 German knowledge-driven organisations and meet with their KM champions has been scheduled for 1-5 December. Expecting that most of the group will be from outside Germany, all presentations will be in English. Mon, 3 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://www.ikmagazine.com/display.asp?articleid=9535FEBA-01A7-44CB-B49F-ACE72EDA56AB http://www.ikmagazine.com/display.asp?articleid=9535FEBA-01A7-44CB-B49F-ACE72EDA56AB RECENTLY, DR Clifford Gross, vice president of research and senior fellow at Gartner, suggested that IT innovation would be a key factor in helping the US emerge from a recession. To quote a recent Gartner report: “Never before has IT enabled thousands, hundreds of thousands, even millions of people to create simultaneously and collaboratively.” Mon, 3 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT