Originally posted 11-Apr-24 Bob Buckman is one of the very few corporate CEOs to directly champion knowledge management, write about it, and actively participate in KM professional organizations such as APQC. He had a keen interest in knowledge management and knowledge sharing. Bob practiced and led these from 1984 until he retired in 2016, both within his own company and through teaching others around the world. From 1977–2000 he was the Chief Executive of Buckman Laboratories, a leader in the specialty chemicals market. Bo was President and Chairman of the Board of The Applied Kno ..read more

04-Apr-24 Johel Brown-Grant specializes in using storytelling to create job stories, user journeys, and personas. He has expertise in implementing knowledge strategies to map knowledge flows, uncover tacit knowledge, and foster an agile environment. Johel applies User Experience (UX) and design thinking methodologies to support product development, using service design to support innovation. Johel is a storytelling strategist, UX architect, design thinking specialist, and knowledge management professional with extensive experience in enterprise learning, change management, and business storyt ..read more

Originally posted 21-Mar-24 Nick Bontis is Chair of Strategic Management at the DeGroote School of Business, McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. He is also the Director of the Institute for Intellectual Capital Research, a management consulting firm and research think-tank that specializes in conducting human capital diagnostic assessments for corporate and government clients. His research focuses on business performance, intellectual capital, knowledge management, organizational learning, collaboration, human capital measurement, and digital transformation. Nick has expertise i ..read more

Originally posted 14-Mar-24 The late Max Boisot (1943-2011) was a British architect and management consultant who was professor of Strategic Management at the ESADE business school in Barcelona. Max was known for his ideas about the information economy, the Information Space, social capital, and social learning theory. For more about Max, see Profiles in Knowledge. Books Selected ResearchGate Articles and Chapters Generating knowledge in a connected world: The case of the ATLAS experiment at CERN Connectivity, Extremes, and Adaptation: A Power-Law Perspective of Organizationa ..read more

Originally published March 8, 2024 This is the 101st article in the Profiles in Knowledge series featuring thought leaders in knowledge management. V. Mary Abraham is an author, consultant, and facilitator. Active in the legal industry since 1991, she practiced corporate law at a top-tier international firm and helped lead its knowledge management efforts. Mary was a member of the faculty of Columbia University’s Master of Science in Information and Knowledge Strategy (IKNS) program and served as Academic Director of the program. Mary co-founded a digital start-up, Broadli Inc., whi ..read more

Originally posted 07-Mar-24 After the first 60 posts in this series featured women who are thought leaders in knowledge management, the next 60 will be about men. This is the first one in the second half of the series. David Bennet is the cofounder, with his wife Alex, of the Mountain Quest Institute. MQI is a center focused on achieving growth and understanding through questions about knowledge, consciousness, and meaning. He and Alex co-wrote many books, book chapters, and articles. David was CEO, Chairman of Board, and CKO of Dynamic Systems, Inc. from 1990 to 2002. He led and managed ..read more

Originally posted 29-Feb-24 Cindy Gordon is CEO and Founder of Saleschoice.com. She is a thought leader in disruptive innovation, Software as a Service (SaaS), Artificial Intelligence (AI), and advanced analytics. Cindy is the author of 14 books on SaaS, Big Data, Collaboration, AI, and other topics. Her specialties include machine learning, natural language processing, predictive and prescriptive analytics, and data science. In the field of artificial intelligence, she focuses on ethical AI, AI governance, and AI for business. Background Education University of Toronto, Rotman School o ..read more

Originally posted 22-Feb-24 Nancy White is the founder of Full Circle Associates, her consulting practice that includes an extensive network of professionals. She is a frequent contributor and a past core group member of KM4Dev, a global networked community of international development practitioners interested in knowledge management and knowledge sharing issues and approaches, who seek to share ideas and experiences in this domain. Nancy is a leading thinker, writer, and practitioner of online facilitation (group facilitation for distributed environments). She supports distributed learn ..read more

Originally posted 08-Feb-24 In this post, I provide definitions, perspectives, and details on how and why knowledge curation should be performed as part of knowledge management. I have written extensively about both subjects and was recently asked about the differences between the two. Definitions Knowledge Curation is taking existing information and making it more useful. This includes better organizing it, making it more findable, and making it easier to use. To curate is to collect, select, assemble, and present information or multimedia content such as photos, videos, or music for ot ..read more

Originally posted 01-Feb-24 Ana Neves, based in Lisbon, Portugal, is the founder and managing director of Knowman (a consulting company focused on knowledge management and enterprise social networks), author and host of the KMOL portal, and organizer of the Social Now conference. She is the coauthor of the Social Collaboration Maturity Benchmark and author of the biannual study on Knowledge Management in Portugal and Spain. Her specialties are knowledge management, communities of practice, organizational learning, social networks, social tools, internal communication, and cultural change mana ..read more