By Moi Kok Wah, JT Frank Academy

Global Pillars of Competition
Globally, organizations compete on one of the three pillars of competition: operational excellence, customer responsiveness and innovation intensity. Organizations in manufacturing and high-risk industries, for instance, strive to excel in operational excellence. They operate under conditions where customer requirements are very clear and they differentiate themselves by focusing on efficiency and effectiveness of operations.

By Moi Kok Wah

This is an interim report on a research project to assemble a Framework of psychological principles to assist knowledge workers in transforming themselves to be full-fledged Innovative Knowledge Professionals. The Framework is based on the 3 fundamental questions that knowledge workers should ask themselves on this journey. The learning, assessment and exploration activities bring knowledge workers from the stage of Discovery to clarifying Commitment and finally through to Innovation. Concentrating their unique talents, values and passion on carefully chosen Personal Innovation Focus will yield practical innovations in line with the strengths and interests of the innovators.

By Naguib Chowdhury

300 participants ! Presence of living KM legend like Robert Buckman! Free Books ( The Knowledge Driven Organization), lots of free goodies ( Inside Knowledge magazine, pens, scented candles)  at the KM Arena and an awesome keynote by Dave Snowden- KM Asia 2007 was surely a great networking event for KMers in Singapore, which was held from 29- 31 October at Suntec City.

Jacqueline Garcia (Head of Production of KM Asia from Ark Group) welcomed participants and Verna Allee presented her keynote, where she spoke about Knowledge, Network and Value Creation. Verna said, Knowledge begins in conversation.

Web 2.0 tools may be making their way into the corporate world, but businesses need to ask themselves to what extent do they need these technologies, an analyst cautions.
In an e-mail interview with ZDNet Asia, Steve Hodgkinson, IT research director at Ovum Australia/New Zealand, said the primary objective of Web 2.0 tools that are deployed for business purposes--sometimes dubbed "Enterprise 2.0" platforms--is to "lubricate" the social networking effect of collaboration and stimulate innovation and knowledge sharing.

"New software tools, social behaviors, approaches to content creation and business models are changing the way we think about information, collaboration and intellectual property," Hodgkinson said.

By Ruzaif Adli Md. Daud
Principal Consultant, Sigma Rectrix Systems (M) Sdn Bhd

Abstract- The awareness of the public at large of records as organizational knowledge asset has not been up to the expectation. Although the effort placed by the government to replace the previous National Archives Act 1966 No. 44 to National Archives Act 2003 [Act 629] can be looked as the most positive moved in protecting the corporate memory especially created by the public sectors, the enforcement of the act is very much needed. And this should be taken seriously by the private sectors as well to uphold the integrity of the organizations when litigation issues arise.