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Better by Design New Dual Pedestal Reel New innovative, heavy duty design Highly stable & strong for many applications Very compact, fits in tight spaces Vibration-resistant to military standards Improves efficiency, safety and organization Reelcraft was voted “best brand” TM NEW! Dual Pedestal Hose Reel Series DP7000 Patent Pending Hose & Cable Reels 1-800-444-3134 www.reelcraft.com CIO magazine. She defines knowledge management and explains the sort of material that could be considered as intellectual assets. The article offers definitions of explicit and tacit knowledge, and includes some ideas on transferring the tacit type. She lists the five benefits a company can expect from having a successful knowledge-management system in place. She goes on to offer advice on getting that all-important buy-in when you’re trying to push through such touchyfeely initiatives, and follows up with tips for demonstrating the return on your knowledge-management effort. Unfortunately, many of the links to the supplementary articles don’t appear to be live. Nevertheless, there’s a case to be made for knowing about www.cio.com/article/40343 so your mouse can explore ideas from an award-winning journalist. Devil’s advocate Wind Things Up With Reelcraft TM Not everyone blithely hops on the knowledge-management bandwagon. T.D. Wilson, Professor Emeritus at University of Sheffield, England, and publisher of Information Research, a scholarly journal dedicated to research across information-related disciplines, is skeptical of the idea. His article, “The nonsense of knowledge management,” argues that failing to acknowledge the difference between the terms knowledge and information is a fatal mistake. Wilson then offers a scheme by which you can easily discern the distinction between the two. With that complete, he reports on his search of scholarly literature and critiques the relevant content in each of the journals he found. Next, he shifts to the major business consultancies and shows how they deal with the differentiation. Finally, he explores how business schools handle the issue. If you don’t have time to read this article, all 11,000 words of it, skip down to his conclusions near the end, where he summarizes his thoughts on this idea of knowledge management. Wilson’s food for thought can be found at http://informationr.net/ir/8-1/paper144.html Without comment www.jistem.fea.usp.br/index.php/jistem/article/view/3/1 E-mail Executive Editor Russ Kratowicz, P.E., CMRP, at russk@putman.net. More resources at www.PlantServices.com/thismonth Knowledge management – “Closing the loop” KM tools – “Knowledge-management tools” Knowledge management – “You’ve got to know your stuff” For more, search www.PlantServices.com using the keywords information, knowledge and management. 60 www.PLANTSERVICES.com February 2008 http://www.cio.com/article/40343 http://www.reelcraft.com http://www.reelcraft.com http://informationr.net/ir/8-1/paper144.html http://www.jistem.fea.usp.br/index.php/jistem/article/view/3/1 http://www.PlantServices.com/thismonth http://www.sulmac-deway.com http://www.PlantServices.com http://www.PLANTSERVICES.com

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Plant Services - February 2008

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