Everywhere you look our systems are under pressure - political systems, social systems, economic systems and organizational systems. The world we grew up in is changing as never before. Behind much of this change is the growth of knowledge as a vital economic resource, and the growth of networking, both human and technological. We address these changes in our Insights through four main themes:

• Managing and Exploiting Knowledge
• The Learning Organization
• The Internet (R)evolution and Developments in ICT (Information and Communications Technologies)
• Virtual Working

Managing and Exploiting Knowledge

These Insights cover the broad context of the changing knowledge agenda as well as specific topics related to organizational knowledge management initiatives.

• The Global Knowledge Economy: Characteristics of the emerging knowledge economy and the implications for business.
• Knowledge Management: Making sense of an oxymoron. An overview, including strategies for success based on real-world cases.
• Knowing What You Know: How to conduct a knowledge audit, typically the first stage of a KM initiative.
• Do You Need a CKO? The challenge of leadership. Chief Knowledge Officers: their roles and desirable characteristics.
• The Knowledge Asset: An earlier Insight looking at this vital resource.
• Measuring Knowledge and Intellectual Capital: Some specific types of measures that address the tricky problem of measurement.
• K-Commerce: Profiting From Knowledge: How to capitalize on your organization knowledge.
• Online Knowledge Markets: How Do They Work? Knowledge markets are a potential outlet, but are problematic.
• Information Resources Management (IRM): An important ingredient for managing explicit knowledge (information) as a strategic asset.
• Market Intelligence Systems (MkIS): Turning raw information into actionable management intelligence.
• Innovation through Knowledge Networks: Developing new ways of innovating.
• Knowledge Networking: Pooling expertise to create new knowledge.

This website has many articles, publications and links to other resources on knowledge management.

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The Learning Organization

The distinction between a knowledge-based organization and a learning organization is becoming more blurred every day.

• The Learning Organization: Our popular introduction to the subject.
• Knowledge Networking: Learning and increasing knowledge through networking.
• The Networked Organisation: How organisations are seeking new structures to become innovative and adaptive.

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The Internet (R)evolution

We are all now aware of the rise and fall of the dot.com phenomenom. However, the Internet is here to stay and is transforming the nature of every industry. Don't overlook the impact of general advances in ICT, and tools to support knowledge management, especially collaborative technologies.

• Internet Commerce: New Ways of Building Markets.
• The 10Ps of Internet Marketing: Proven principles that ensure marketing success on the Internet.
• Intranets: Sharing Organizational Knowledge: How intranets help knowledge sharing, provided attention goes beyond the technology.
• The Hybrid Manager: A new breed of manager that blends experience of IT and business.
• The Impact of IT on Organizations: How IT affects strategy, structures and work.
• Getting to grips with Groupware: Today we use the term 'collaboration', but the issues have not changed.

You will find more articles by looking at the list of Internet Contents and checking out our Internet resource links.

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Virtual Working

Increased ability to network is creating new ways of working across time and distance - teleworking, virtual teaming and the creation of virtual organizations. It is also giving rise to virtual products and services.

• The Virtual Organisation: Exploiting the dynamics of space and time to create new organisaitonal entities.
• Teleworking for Enterprise: How to gain the benefits of location independent working (teleworking, telecommuting).
• The Networked Organisation: How organisations are seeking new structures to become innovative and adaptive.

Read also our popular 25 Principles of Virtual Teaming and Virtual Organizations. Also see the list of contents on Virtual Working and list of resources.

Management Insights are publications of David Skyrme Associates, who offers strategic consulting, presentations and workshops on many of these topics.

Additional coverage of these topics can be found in our free monthly briefing I³ UPDATE/ENTOVATION International News, various articles, publications and presentations.

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