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The Intelligent Community Forum is a think tank that studies the economic and social development of the 21st Century community.  Whether in industrialized or developing nations, communities are challenged to create prosperity, stability and cultural meaning in a world where jobs, investment and knowledge increasingly depend on advances in communications.  For the 21st Century community, connectivity is a double-edge sword: threatening established ways of life on the one hand, and offering powerful new tools to build prosperous, inclusive and sustainable economies on the other.  ICF seeks to share the best practices of the world's Intelligent Communities in adapting to the demands of the Broadband Economy, in order to help communities everywhere find sustainable renewal and growth.

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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

Paper by Phillip Marsh (2005) Knowledge Management is one of the most misunderstood management disciplines in business imperatives today, partially due to the early rush by software vendors to produce the "see all - tell all" panacea for leveraging intellectual capital, which was all the rage in the late 1990s. As with all important endeavours, planning is the cornerstone of success and embarking on a voyage into Knowledge Management is no different. Although, if one considers the millions of Rands wasted on unsuccessful attempts, one would not think so.

We are, literally, more creative than ever. ...we rely often on intuition and always on insights. Great white sharks cannot stop swimming; if they do... You could be dull in another era. Not this one. Your Google is different from my Google, which is different... ...a "Cloak of Invisibility" like the one Dumbledore gave...

As Google's employee #16, Susan Wojcicki has learned a thing or two about innovation. Here's what she's learned, and what she continues to work on. ILLUSTRATION BY Robert Samuel Hanson The greatest innovations are the ones we take for granted, like light bulbs, refrigeration and penicillin.

"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".

Great things don't happen in a vacuum. But creating an environment for creative thinking and innovation can be a daunting challenge. How can you make it happen at your company? The answer may surprise you: gamestorming. This book includes more than 80 games to help you break down barriers, communicate better, and generate new ideas, insights, and strategies. This unique collection of games encourages engagement and creativity while bringing more structure and clarity to the workplace.