KM Literature & Documents
Literature on Knowledge Management that can be found on Internet. Over time:
- Documents on Knowledge Management by other organisations
- Publications on Knowledge Management by IRC and partners
- Case studies on Knowledge Management
Organisational Learning in NGOs: Creating the Motive, Means and Opportunity
18 Apr 11
To be a learning NGO requires organisations to simultaneously balance the need to take a strategic approach to organisational learning (at the highest level of organisational planning and management) with the recognition that learning is also an intensely personal process that goes on in the minds of individuals.
The learning NGO
18 Apr 11
The ideas underpinning the concept of a ‘learning organisation’ have a generic appeal and, as a result, organisational learning is the subject of increasing interest in the NGO sector and the ‘not-for-profit’ world more widely.
Collaborative strategies within our organizations
18 Apr 11
Organising change from the inside out: Emerging Models of Internal Collaboration in Philanthropy.
Learning for the water sector
A team of guest editors (Ewen Le Borgne as lead editor, Jaap Pels, Nadia Manning Thomas and Russell Kerkhoven) coordinated a special issue of Knowledge for Development Journal dedicated to learning, knowledge management and cooperation in the water sector, Volume 5, Number 3, December 2009. It is published by Taylor & Francis Group, Oxon, UK. Four IRC staff member contributed papers to this special issue.Two papers are available here and other papers can be found on: http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~db=all~content=g918920615 (pay for articles).
Knowledge and information management in the water and sanitation sector: a hard nut to crack
Knowledge management: everyone talks about it, but what is it exactly and how can it help us in our work?
Read more or download TOP14_KM_06.pdf (1.2 MB)
The Real Work of Knowledge Management
12 Aug 04
Organizations need to be incredibly smart, fast, agile, responsive. They need to respond and make smart decisions at ever-increasing speed, even as the unintended consequences of speedy decisions flare up in a nanosecond and keep leaders focused only on fire-fighting. The old days of "continuous improvement" seem as leisurely as a picnic from the past.
IHRIM Journal, April-June 2001, Volume 5, Number 2, pp.29-33
The practical reality of KM within development initiatives by D. Richardson
Richardson argues that knowledge management is a very personal activity that, if practiced widely, can improve organization's ability to achieve development results. Personally accessible, immediately useful and relatively inexpensive personal knowledge management tools can empower development workers to take ownership of their intellectual assets. Knowledge management starts with the individual and moves through an organization.
KM models by Weggeman
Knowledge management models by Prof M. Weggeman which are useful when setting up KM plans. Information on these models and other useful definitions can be found in this folder.
The Knowledge Management Spectrum by D. Binney.
The Knowledge Management (KM) spectrum has been developed to assist organizations in understanding the range of KM options, applications and technologies available to them. It provides a view of the totality and complexity of the various KM theories, tools and techniques presented in the literature. An article by D. Binney.
Learn@WELL KM modules
The former Learn@WELL initiatives were capacity building modules which IRC used for a number of knowledge management activities. The material related to the former Learn@WELL module can be found here.
