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Most companies today struggle with their rapidly growing volume of critical corporate knowledge. A large amount of useful information is trapped in information silos, such as email inboxes. There is also a gap in understanding and knowing where organizational expertise and talent reside in the organization. Add to this the loss of organizational knowledge when employees leave the company. The paradox of this is the increased dependency on information and knowledge technology for innovation and building value. The Enterprise Social Media market has grown rapidly in the few years and the rate of growth is accelerating. Companies are adopting cloud technologies to reduce the costs of maintaining larger and larger sets of data. Cloud technologies also facilitate the use of mobile platforms and tablet devices, which are providing employees with unprecedented access to information. The rapid pace of change, the need to innovate quickly, dispersed and remote workforces, and increased customer demands make capturing and utilizing corporate knowledge even more challenging. A strategic approach to providing both knowledge management and collaboration is needed. It should be seamless and an integral of business operations. Knowledge Management / Collaboration is not just technology. It is not just storing documents. It is not having an internal social media site or utilizing instant messaging. It is about sharing and collaborating. That is frequently the most difficult challenge. It is often a cultural challenge.

Information graphics, visual representations of data known as infographics, keep the web going these days. Web users, with their diminishing attention spans, are inexorably drawn to these shiny, brightly coloured messages with small, relevant, clearly-displayed nuggets of information. They're straight to the point, usually factually interesting and often give you a wake-up call as to what those statistics really mean.

FlowingData explores how designers, statisticians, and computer scientists are using data to understand ourselves better - mainly through data visualization. Money spent, reps at the gym, time you waste, and personal information you enter online are all forms of data. How can we understand these data flows? Data visualization lets non-experts make sense of it all.

As the web becomes more and more inundated with blogs, videos, tweets, status updates, news, articles, and countless other forms of content, "information overload" is something we all seem to suffer. It is becoming more difficult to weed through all the "stuff" out there and pluck out the best, most share-worthy tidbits of information, especially if your topic is niche. Let's face it, Google definitely has its shortcomings when it comes to content curation and the more it tries to cater to all audiences, the less useful it becomes.

Charts and graphs are the best ways to represent information and relationship between two interlinked entities. Not only do charts and graphs inform visitors about the trend or relationship you want to show them but also add a visual connection with the visitors.

The focus of this section of the website is an overview of the main phases of an enterprise knowledge management initiative. As well as selecting menu items on the left, you can click on the image below to take you to more information on the main phases (top row) or individual steps (coloured boxes). We also delve into ten topical themes that should permeate the thinking of KM practitioners wanting to achieve successful business outcomes. In addition to the enterprise roadmap, this section of the website will in the future include: Personal toolkit - managing your career in the knowledge economy Team toolkit - how to develop high performance virtual knowledge teams Policy toolkit - the role of governments and international agencies in developing knowledge economies

The London Knowledge Lab is a unique collaboration between two of the UK's most prominent centres of research - the Institute of Education and Birkbeck. The Lab brings together computer and social scientists from a very broad range of fields, including: education, sociology, culture and media, semiotics, computational intelligence, information management, personalisation, semantic web ubiquitous technologies. This means that issues can be tackled from many different perspectives, and this is reflected in our mission, to Understand the place of digital technologies and media in our cultural, social and educational relationships with knowledge - finding, acquiring, creating, and sharing it; Design, build and evaluate systems, processes and interfaces that enhance these relationships; and Examine critically the assumptions about knowledge and learning that underlie the increasingly wide range of applications of digital technologies.

Knowledge acquisition, its exchange, and communication within innovative technologies are the core research topics at the Knowledge Media Research Center in Tuebingen. Study matters are classic forms of teaching as well as in-class education in higher education and school domains, together with possibilities of learning in informal settings, as in museums, the internet and workspaces. A multidisciplinary team of highly trained scientists from cognitive and educational sciences, human behavioral sciences and social sciences is completed by experts from media technology and computer science. By cooperating closely with public and private institutions and by transferring research results into real world applications, the institute makes a substantial contribution to enable innovative media-based teaching and learning scenarios.

DEGW is a strategic business consultancy. We make complex issues simple. Our people help clients to capitalize on a vital dynamic; the relationship between people and the design of physical place to enhance organisational performance. We help to deliver tangible and sustainable business value. Through rigorous and clearly structured evidence and through an ability to really listen to the aspirations, strategic needs and practical commercial concerns of our clients, DEGW develops insightful solutions to our clients challenges. DEGW's work integrates research, strategy, and spatial concepts for occupants, designers and owners. It is informed by a deep understanding of the changing nature of working and learning globally, regionally, and locally, and is applied across a range of sectors - corporate workplaces, government workplaces, learning and research environments, and healthcare environments.

Sharp­Brains is an inde­pen­dent mar­ket research firm and inno­va­tion net­work track­ing the emerg­ing brain fit­ness mar­ket. We main­tain an annual state-of-the mar­ket report series and pub­lish con­sumer guides to inform decision-making, pro­duce an annual global and vir­tual con­fer­ence, and pro­vide advi­sory services. SharpBrains.com, the firm's edu­ca­tional blog and web­site, is a mem­ber of Sci­en­tific Amer­i­can Part­ner Network.

"The disintermediation based on the digital technology has transformed different environments, from banking to media, education and sales. This paper explores a new kind of disintermediation or re-intermediation; also called cyberintermediation. The paper analyses how the revolution of information and communication technologies provides new alternatives of disintermediation in the generation and distribution of knowledge. The authors raise questions such as: To what extent is this phenomenon reshaping the traditional role of the university? Will it cause a crisis in the educational institutions? Will this disintermediation of the education evolve towards the disappearance of institutions like schools and universities? The researchers propose a table that integrates and recombines the knowledge generation and knowledge distribution dimensions with Boyer's key functions of scholarship. Finally, the concept of knowledge broker is introduced to enrich the discussion about reintermediation. Beyond the prophecies, which announce the "death of the university", the authors discuss and suggest new agents, actions and transactions that are useful to think about the educational institution of the new century".

La Oficina de Cooperación Universitaria, OCU, ha iniciado la distribución del libro Tendencias Universidad 2020. Se trata del informe final del proyecto de prospectiva que lleva ese mismo nombre, que ha sido coordinado por OCU y ha contado con la participación de numerosos expertos en el ámbito de la educación superior de varios países. En el libro se reflejan las opiniones de los expertos con relación a distintos temas concernientes al futuro de las universidades, tanto desde el punto de vista de las áreas de gestión (gobierno universitario, docencia, gestión académica, gestión económica, investigación, etc.), como desde el punto de vista de aspectos estratégicos que inciden de forma transversal en esa gestión universitaria, como por ejemplo, la internacionalización, calidad, cooperación y movilidad, entre otros. El estudio se ha realizado siguiendo la Metodología Delphi, en la que un grupo de expertos opina sobre unas hipótesis específicas y se sigue una dinámica de consultas posteriores a un grupo más amplio de personas.