Knowledge management: Hype, hope, or help?

Developments in Practice XXII: Expertise Location and Management: Hope or Hype?

The idea that KM can help people in large, often widely geographically dispersed organizations find out who has subject matter expertise or who knows how and where to get at important knowhow is intrinsically appealing to knowledge managers. After all, helping people access the knowledge they need is fundamentally what KM is all about. Early approaches to expertise location and management (ELM)...

Community Informatics: Hope or Hype

Community informatics is a promising strategy for taking advantage of information and communication technologies (ICTs) to further goals of community development. It is important, however, that proponents of this approach recognize that it is based on the assumption that technology in itself can lead to positive social development. This "techno-utopianism" is subject to various critiques, which...

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Stem cell therapy for Alzheimer's disease: hope or hype?

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Panel: Knowledge Management: Hype, Fiction and Reality

Interest in Knowledge Management (herein KM) has seen exponential growth over the last 2-3 years, with articles quadrupling in numbers during this period ( Scarbrough et al., 1999). KM is broadly defined as any process or practice that involves ‘acquiring, creating, capturing, storing, sharing and using knowledge to enhance organizational performance’ (Bassi, 1997). Whilst this definition sugge...