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BPubs.com - Knowledge Management Publications A collection of business publications and articles. Features a search and contact information. http://www.bpubs.com/Management_Science/Knowledge_Management/

A Component Based Knowledge Management System Using a component architecture design approach. By Tom Finneran, published in The Data Administration Newsletter. http://www.tdan.com/view-articles/5241/

Knowledge Management: Are We Missing Something? Essay makes the distinction between hard and soft knowledge within an organisation and argues that much of what is called Knowledge Management emphasises the capture-codification-storage of such knowledge. [PDF] http://www.cs.york.ac.uk/mis/docs/kmmissing.pdf

Knowledge Management: Making Sense of an Oxymoron David Skyrme Associates. Can knowledge be managed? The words management and knowledge at first sight appear uneasy bedfellows. Knowledge is largely cognitive and highly personal, while management involves organisational processes. http://www.skyrme.com/insights/22km.htm

Miscellany of management articles The site is a collection of miscellaneous articles about management. http://articles-home.com/management/

The Seven Myths of Knowledge Management. Marc Rosenberg looks at some of the problematic ways companies approach knowledge management. In Context Magazine. http://www.contextmag.com/setFrameRedirect.asp?src=/archives/200208/Insight1SevenMyths.asp

What is Knowledge and Can It be Managed? By Craig S. Mullins - Platinum technology, inc. Knowledge management is over-hyped and misunderstood. It is not a technology, but an amalgamation of strategy, technology, and people. http://www.tdan.com/view-articles/5108/

What is knowledge management? Knowledge management is a business activity with two primary aspects: Treating the knowledge component of business activities as an explicit concern of business reflected in strategy, policy, and practice at all levels of the organization. Making a direct connection between an organization's intellectual assets, both explicit and tacit, and positive business results. http://www.media-access.com/whatis.html

What is Knowledge Management (KM)? KM is a newly emerging, interdisciplinary business model dealing with all aspects of knowledge within the context of the firm, including knowledge creation, codification, sharing, and how these activities promote learning and innovation. http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/courses/is213/s99/Projects/P9/web_site/about_km.html

Making Knowledge Management Work With Service Management Discusses how knowledge management in the IT world has always suffered from a lack of context that KM is clearly designed to fix and suggests that service management may be the answer. By Michael Pastore. (September 4, 2003) http://www.intranetjournal.com/articles/200309/ij_09_04_03a.html

Defining Knowledge Work: A British and Hispanic Cross-Cultural Study Results of a cross-cultural study of Spain, Latin America and the UK which examines the cultural factors that affect the definition of knowledge work. (March, 2003) http://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/~kimble/teaching/students/Jennifer_Yau/Jennifer_Yau.html

Ten Tips for Managing Knowledge Discusses how to implement a successful infrastructure. By Lorin David Kalisky. (February 25, 2003) http://www.documentiq.com/resources/tips/61-DocumentIQ%20Tips.html

The Duality of Knowledge Essay that argues that KM approaches should stress human interaction rather than simply codifying and storing knowledge. By Paul M. Hildreth and Chris Kimble, published in Information Research. (October, 2002) http://informationr.net/ir/8-1/paper142.html

The Nonsense of Knowledge Management Examines the origins and basis of knowledge management, its components and its development as a field of consultancy practice. Problems in the distinction between knowledge and information are explored, as well as Polanyi's concept of tacit knowing. Includes references. By T. D. Wilson, in Information Research. (October, 2002) http://informationr.net/ir/8-1/paper144.html

Heralding ICT-enabled Knowledge Societies Provides a two-way global perspective on knowledge and the information rich-poor. By Vikas Nath, Inlaks Scholar, London School of Economics. (April, 2002) http://members.tripod.com/knownetwork/articles/heralding.htm

The Human Element: KM's Secret Ingredient A white paper by VisionCor discussing the importance of maintaining a human element in knowledge management initiatives. (December, 2001) http://www.learningcircuits.org/2001/dec2001/visioncor.html

The ABCs of Knowledge Management Defines KM and its application in the workplace. By Megan Santosus and Jon Surmacz, in CIO Magazine. (May 23, 2001) http://www.cio.com/research/knowledge/edit/kmabcs.html

Knowledge Management A collection of observations that have been made about knowledge in the modern workplace. By David Hay. (January 1, 2000) http://www.tdan.com/view-articles/4832/

Developing a Knowledge Strategy A framework for making the link between knowledge and strategy. Written by Michael H. Zack, College of Business Administration, Northeastern University; published in California Management Review , Vol. 41, No. 3. (June, 1999) http://web.cba.neu.edu/~mzack/articles/kstrat/kstrat.htm

Managing Codified Knowledge Michael H. Zack. To remain competitive, organizations must efficiently and effectively create, locate, capture, and share their organization's knowledge and expertise. This increasingly requires making the organization's knowledge explicit and recording it for easier distribution and reuse. (March 1, 1999) http://web.cba.neu.edu/~mzack/articles/kmarch/kmarch.htm

Knowledge Management: Can it Exist in a Law Office? Discusses how knowledge management could be applied in law offices and what needs to happen for knowledge management to occur. By Nina Platt; published in LLRX.com. (December 1, 1997) http://www.llrx.com/features/km.htm