Join the Network Online Community What others say Best-Selling KM Authors "Some sticky sites define their audiences more narrowly and therefore are more selective about what they offer... BRINT targets business researchers by offering ample depth..." - Thomas H. Davenport "The most comprehensive web site that I have found on Knowledge Management." - Karl-Erik Sveiby "A splendid compendium of articles and links on knowledge management and intellectual capital." - Thomas A. Stewart. Chief Knowledge Officers "A Virtual Library of the Best Sources for Knowledge Management and Intellectual Capital." - Ellen M. Knapp, Vice Chairman & CKO, Coopers & Lybrand "My company is considered a survivor in the current economic turn precisely because we applied Malhotra's principles of creative abrasion and had a de facto KM system in place.." - CKO discussion in Performance Improvement More...; Case Studies in Practice

What Is Knowledge Management? From a business-technology perspective, "Knowledge Management caters to the critical issues of organizational adaptation, survival, and competence in face of increasingly discontinuous environmental change.... Essentially, it embodies organizational processes that seek synergistic combination of data and information processing capacity of information technologies, and the creative and innovative capacity of human beings." Here are two of my summary definitions of this framework that are popular in worldwide corporate and military strategies. KM is: 'Knowing what you know and profit from it' and 'Making obsolete what you know before others obsolete it.' The original proposition that combined the 'knowledge harvesting' and 'knowledge creation' aspects of KM is in my definition cited among others by the Defense Information Agency Directorate for the U.S. Navy presentation at an International Symposium in Tokyo, Japan: "KM is obsoleting what you know before others obsolete it and profit by creating challenges and opportunities others haven't even thought about." More details about this perspective of knowledge in action are available in KMBook.com. Based upon the research and practice of the BRINT Institute and its applications in diverse worldwide contexts, this framework has withstood the tests of time over the past decade.

Working Knowledge: How Organizations Manage What They Know (Interview of BRINT Institute with Tom Davenport and Larry Prusak on the launch of their book)
Know What You Know (Working Knowledge book excerpt from CIO Magazine)
Does KM=IT? (CIO Magazine Interview of Dr. Yogesh Malhotra)

More Discussions on Knowledge Management:
BRINT Institute's Book on Knowledge Management
Analyses: 200 Topics in Knowledge Management
Perspectives of Our Community Members

Working Knowledge: Think! Apply! ""To dig holes in the ground", paid for out of savings, will increase, not only employment, but the real national dividend of useful goods and services. It is not reasonable, however, that a sensible community should be content to remain dependent on such fortuitous and often wasteful mitigations when once we understand the influences upon which effective demand depends." - John Maynard Keynes, The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money (1935)

Applications: Case Studies in Knowledge Management How our working knowledge is being applied in the policy and practices of worldwide governments, corporations, and institutions.

Knowledge Management Think Tank: Online Community of Practice

BRINT Institute is one of the earliest proponents of divergence and plurality of viewpoints and perspectives for effective knowledge creation. Not surprisingly, this is the home of the most sustained and prolific community of KM professionals, many of whom have made it their home for years.