Archive for October, 2009
Knowledge Management : Breaking The Analyst
Increasingly the Long War is surfacing one of the most serious challenges to the classic model of the intelligence community, in which analysts reside comfortably in their ivory tower and the collectors are forcibly kept out of the briefing conference rooms lest they track mud over the nice clean floors. Now, analysts are forward deployed [...]
Knowledge Management As an Economic Development Strategy
The shift to an information economy is creating new challenges for economic development. As knowledge and information play an increasingly important role in economic activity, the needs of businesses have changed. More importantly, the nature of the business opportunities has shifted. These opportunities are twofold: · to create new information and knowledge-based enterprises, and · [...]
Knowledge and Information in Economic Development
Just as information and knowledge are changing the nature of our economy, they are also changing the practice of local economic development. Companies are changing how they operate and what drives their location decisions. Local economic development strategies must adapt to these changes. In additio n, we are gaining a better understanding of how information [...]