Knowledge Management

Publications in Knowledge Management

Back to my blog, I would like to share with you one of the result from my research: the publishing trend in knowledge management.
Based on query made on EBSCO, I have found the following results. What you can see is the growing interest and the positive trend of publications mentioning the term "knowledge management".

The split between academic articles (peer reviewed) and magazines is interesting. It shows that "knowledge management", as an object of study, is now a strong research trend (mainly anchored in the strategic management field and in the information system field). So far, it seems that this trend tends to decrease this year...bad news !??!

> To study the full chart, please click here

Les archives ouvertes, une belle initiative du CNRS

Le CNRS invite (enfin!) les chercheurs français à partager librement le fruit de leur travail sur le net. Cela se passe via le portal HAL-SHS.

L'archive ouverte HAL-SHS (Hyper Article en Ligne - Sciences de l'Homme et de la Société) se présente comme une bibliothèque numérique recevant et diffusant les productions intellectuelles de la Recherche dans les disciplines des Sciences Humaines et Sociales.

Bien évidemment, la gestion figure en bonne place et on peut déjà trouver une dizaine d'articles en ligne.

Allez voir en cliquant ici.

Partagez vos connaissances...et vous aiderez Yahoo!

Changement de stratégie chez Yahoo!
Dépassé depuis longtemps par la pertinence et la rapidité des algorithmes contenus dans le moteur de recherche Google, Yahoo! devait réagir. Depuis son origine, ce moteur de recherche était basé sur un référencement manuel des sites. Ce qui provoquait des débats lorsque certains sites contenant des propos extrêmistes avaient été indexés par les référenceurs de Yahoo!
Il est intéressant de constater comment Yahoo! a répondu face à la domination de Google: en s'appuyant non plus sur l'expertise d'un référenceur -qui juge de la pertinence d'un site ou d'une information- mais sur celle de la communauté des internautes. En somme, Yahoo! applique le partage des connaissances entre pairs via un système de questions/réponses. Un internaute -membre de Yahoo!- pose une question qu'il catégorise dans une des rubriques du site et attend que les autres internautes lui réponde...et ça marche!
Lancé à Hong-Kong il y a quelques mois, ce système a permis à Yahoo! de reconquérir des parts de marché auprès des internautes. Le système a donc fait son apparition en France depuis quelques semaines. Seul ombre au tableau, selon moi: la qualité très inégale des questions posées (ex. "aimez vous manger chinois?"...enfin, pourquoi pas!).
Ce système mais rappelle celui lancé par Siemens -Sharenet- il y a quelques années pour aider les vendeurs de la branche téléphonie et réseaux (ICN) à partager leurs bonnes pratiques via un système de "requêtes urgentes". Résultats: 120 millions d'euros générés sur trois ans grâce à ce système...

Challenge or Money ?

Here is the Dilbert's answer:

Dilbert : I'm worsely underpaid, I want a raise.

His boss : Oh, Dilbert, Dilbert, Dilbert ...

Dilbert : What, what, what ?

Dilbert's boss : People don't work here for the money. They work here for the challenge.

Dilbert answers : If challenges are more valuable than money, why don't you give me your money and I'll give you my challenges.

Standing on the "shoulder of giants"

As a researchers I am a dwarf perched on the soulders of giants. I see more and farther than my predecessors, not because I have a keener vision or greater height, but because I am lifted up thanks to the body of knowledge accumulated in research articles and books. A PhD dissertation, in a way, is an exercise that needs to climb up and down from the shoulders, go back to the choice points that the giant started with, rethink those choice points and see if it should make sense to remake those. Each generation of researchers steps in the faces of its predecessors...

Offre d'emploi KM

J'essaie depuis plus d'un an d'identifier les offres d'emploi en matière de  projet de knowledge management via une alerte sur le site web Monster. Le moins que l'on puisse dire c'est qu'il n'y a pas beaucoup d'offres en la matière. En moyenne, j'en reçois une intéressante...tous les deux mois ! Pas très encourageant...

Néanmoins, je viens de recevoir celle-ci, provenant d'Airbus et dont le poste est situé à Toulouse:

Vous piloterez des projets interculturels à forte composante humaine en intervenant notamment dans les domaines suivants :
> cartographie de connaissance,
> diagnostic KM, animation de workshop,
> expression de besoin KM et traduction en spécification IT,
> adaptation de processus à l'environnement organisationnel et fonctionnel,
> modélisation et représentation de connaissance,
> veille et gestion documentaire.

> Cliquer ici CONDUITE DE PROJETS KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT.

Great News: HEC & Academy of Management

  All doctoral students in management science know how important it is to write, communicate (in Conferences) and publish (in Scientific Journals) research articles. The moto is "publish or perish". That is why I am glad that one of my paper co-edited with Prof. Bertrand Moingeon has been:

- published as a working paper in the Cahier de Recherches d'HEC;

- accepted at the next conference of the Academy of Management in Atlanta (August 11th to 16th), in the track "Managerial and Organizational Cognition".

Major topics in this track include: attention, attribution, decision making, identity, ideology, image, information processing, knowledge creation and management, learning, memory, mental representations, perceptual and interpretive processes, reputation, social construction, and symbols.

The "Academy" - as I should say - is THE place to be when you do research in management science.

> The working paper can be downloaded by clicking here.

Paper: Lost In Translation

For the next conference organized by ESADE Business School, Rhetoric & Management, in May the 11th, 12th and 13rd, I am currently writing a paper called "Lost in Translation: Why Organizations Should Facilitate Knowledge Transfer".

It starts like this:

    In the movie Lost in Translation the two main characters, Bob and Charlotte, experience the feeling of being “lost” in a foreign country. Both do not speak the language and they feel detached from the existing world. In this paper, I support the view that when knowledge is transferred in organizations, the same process occurs: a great part of it is “lost in translation”.
    Even if knowledge transfer has been extensively studied both in theory and in practice in the last few years, very few analyses have been made in the lenses of rhetoric. With very few exceptions (Czarniawska and Joerges, 1996; Gherardi and Nicolini, 2000) organizational knowledge transfer - defined as the process through which one unit (eg. group, department or division) is affected by the experience of another (Argote and Ingram, 2000: 151) - has been mainly represented as a communication process. Complementary to this view, I propose to interpret the circulation of knowledge in organizations as a process of translation: knowledge is not only transferred between two entities but transformed during that process.

> To read the abstract in PdF, please click here .

Test Podcasting

Je me lance dans le podcasting !
Bon, ce n'est qu'un test technique mais il est concluant...(du point de vue technique ;-)

Et voici, un deuxième test. J'ai utilisé le logiciel Dragon Naturally Speaking pour lire le début d'un de mes articles. Le résultat est assez étonnant !

La voix est un peu "mécanique".

Syllabi of Knowledge Management & Organizational Learning courses

I have found a very useful website made by Peter Gray from Katz School of Business (University of Pittsburgh). He has collected all the syllabi of Knowledge Management & Organizational Learning courses in American universities.

This web site contains two sets of links:
(1) A short list of useful links to papers and web sites pertaining to teaching KM
(2) A longer list of researchers, in alphabetical order, who have provided one or more course description, outline, and/or syllabus that is related to Organizational Learning and/or Knowledge Management.

You can add your own syllabus by mailing him.

I just have one word to him: BRAVO ! It really makes me my life easier when I have to think about lecturing in my research area.

> Go to this web site by clicking here.