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Why and how to measure the impact of knowledge management are questions that never go away

This paper presents the outcome of a study conducted at the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital in which a prediction market was established in order to forecast demand for services. To the researcher's knowledge, it does not appear that prediction markets have been previously utilized in a healthcare environment.

Now that's what I call Knowledge Transfer

Excellent collection of articles and essays on the topic of knowledge and learning.

"EdCast is a Silicon Valley based company founded by serial entrepreneur and venture capitalist Karl Mehta. EdCast's Open Knowledge cloud platform, built on OpenEdx, allows anyone to create a platform to host their own online classes."

"Smart Wikis™ combine Artificial Intelligence and knowledge concepts with your existing IT to provide integrated collaborative working environments that anticipate each user's personal information needs and surround that user with seamless and non-obtrusive forms of assistance."

Lenovo, the world's biggest PC maker, has held talks with Amazon on potentially using Alexa in its computers and other devices, according to a Lenovo executive with knowledge of the talks. The executive declined to provide more details.

If you're out on the hunt for gathering insightful knowledge on AI, these two books are definitely going to be your food for thought, according to Bill Gates.

Organisational Knowledge in the machine intelligence era

Could this be used to create a knowledge click marketplace?

"I don't quite recall how it happened anymore, but in September 2008, I wrote a post for the Enterprise 2.0 blog titled Social Media vs. Knowledge Management: A Generational War.  The post - probably the purest piece of deliberate flamebait I've ever written - went viral. Many of you found ribbonfarm via that post."

Google extends its Knowledge Graph 

"The problem is that too many 'lessons learned' programmes fail. Without falling into the trap of sweeping generalisations, I would suggest that more often than not the story itself is the problem; they just aren't interesting enough; they are shallow; they lack the richness that is needed to engage the intended audience; and they lack a structure that reflects the way adults learn. And that is the bottom line, all too often they just don't work in relation to the ways in which adults learn - I would argue in the vast majority of practice that there is actually little or no consideration for the the target audience of a lesson learned (the adult as a learner)."

"Thinking is hard - yet barely a waking moment passes when we're not labouring away at it. A few of us may be natural geniuses, able to work through the toughest tangles in an instant; others, blessed with reserves of willpower, stay the course in the dogged pursuit of truth. Then there's the rest of us. Not prodigies and a little bit lazy, but still aspiring to understand the world and our place in it. What can we do? In Intuition Pumps, Daniel Dennett, one of the world's most original and provocative thinkers, takes us on a profound, illuminating and highly entertaining philosophical journey. He reveals a collection of his favourite thinking tools, or 'intuition pumps', that he and others have developed for addressing life's most fundamental questions. Along with new discussions of familiar moves - Occam's Razor, reductio ad absurdum - Dennett offers cognitive tools built for the most treacherous subject matter: evolution, meaning, consciousness and free will. In his genial style, Dennett guides readers around the pitfalls in arguments, and reveals easier ways to better understand the world around us and our place in it. An enlightening and practical store of knowledge, Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking will teach you to think truly independently and creatively."