Knowledge as a Strategic Resource LO20921

Wolff E.W. (Ewout.Wolff@nl.fortis.com)
Fri, 19 Mar 1999 15:00:29 +0100

Replying to LO20880 --

> Can anyone assist with some reference material relating
> to 'knowledge' as a strategic resource and how companies
> use 'knowledge' to gain competitive

Dear Chris,

Do you know what you are asking ?

I don't know how many sites there are about KM, let alone KM without
IT-component. There are several good sites :

Knowledge Management Center at the University of Texas
http://www.bus.utexas.edu/kman

Cambridge Information Center
http://www.cin.ctp.com

Het Kennismanagement Netwerk
http://www.kmn.cbit/hvu/nl/contact.html

@ BRINT Knowledge Management Resource Center
http://www.brint.com/km/

Knowledge Ecology Fair
http://www.co-i-l.com/kefair

Executive report on knowledge technology and performance
http://www.knowledgeinc.com

Different papers, articles and a summary of links about KM (good site to
start) :
http://www.brint.com

The Australian Human Resources Institute
http://ahri.com.au

Het KM Forum with links to KM sites
http://www.km-forum.org

The Internationale Kennis Management Forum
http://kmn.cibit.hvu.nl

Knowledge management information including forums, conference, seminars and
meetings
http://www.knowledge.stjohns.co.uk

Sloan Research publicaties
http://web.mit.edu/roi

MIT Learning Organization Network
http://sol-ne.org

Stanford Learning Organization
http://www-leland.stanford.edu/group/SLOW/

Santa Fe Institute
http://santafe.edu/

Knowledge Science Institute
http://ksi.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/KSI

Federation for Enterprise Knowledge Development
http://fend.es

Research on situated cognition
http://www.ilt.columbia.edu/

Learning organization discussion pages
http://world.std.com/~lo/

Home page van Paul Romer, een economist whose articles investigate the role
of knowledge in society
http://www-leland.stanford.edu/~promer/

A soucrce for KM and Decision Support Systems
http://www.uky.edu/BusinessEconomics/dssakba

KM-page of the Charles Sturt University in Australik
http://www.csu.edu.au/research/sda/KMG/index.html

Stanford KSL Network Services
http://www-ksl-svc.stanford.edu:5915/

Knowledge Management Source list
http://www.jmu.edu/library/guides/isat/km.htm)

Knowledge Garden
http://www.vision-nest.com/btbc/kgarden/

Information on reuse of knowledge and ontologies
http://www.ei.sanken.osaka-u.ac.jp

University Center for KM
http://www.ckm.ucsf.edu

The Montague Institute
http://www.montague.com

Knowledge Management World
http://www.kmonline.com

Nick Bontis, professor at the University of Western Ontario
http://scholars.ivey.uwo.ca/nbontis/ic

books : Tom Stewart's Intellectual Capital and Working Knowledge of Tomas
Davenport I can recommend.

Good luck surfing !

Ewout Wolff,
KM consultant
Fortis Nederland

[Host's Note: Thank you Ewout for this list of resources! ...Rick]

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