[KnowledgeManagement] Knowledge Management Month

[Dr. Dan Kirsch]

Knowledge Management Professional Society (KMPro)
September 25, 2006
WASHINGTON, DC

Knowledge Management Month -- October 2006
KMPro has designated October as international “Knowledge Management Month”
-- a month for KMPro members and all other KM'ers worldwide to partcipate
in activities intended to increase awareness and focus upon knowledge
management. Recognizing that Peter Drucker had identified improving the
effectiveness of knowledge workers as the “most important management
challenge of the 21st century” knowledge management has become critical to
organizations world-wide. Yet despite that fact, it seems that many
organizations remain unclear of the value of KM or how to implement it.
Which is why KMPro has decided to “champion” this event.

KMPro encourages ALL KM'ers and all other KM societies and associations to
join in this month -- to promote all that is KM. Additional information on
plans and activities will be available on the KMPro website (KMPro.org) as
well as on the KM Month event site itself (KMMonth.org -- available
October 1st). If you would like to volunteer to sponsor, host or
coordinate any activities (including online events) or contribute in any
way (suggest an idea!), please contact Dr. Dan Kirsch (email COO at KMPro.org
or call +01-757-460-6500).

Dr. Nick Bontis, a member of KMPro's Advisory Board had this to say about
KM Month:

“October is Knowledge Management Month. This means that for 31 days
knowledge workers around the world will unite in their effort to harvest
the full intellectual capital potential of their organizations. We will
seek to promote knowledge sharing behaviours and we will not tolerate the
destructive behaviours of hoarders. We will embrace and support all KM
educational programs. We will appreciate both the technological and human
aspects of KM equally. And, we will seek out and kiss a CKO on the cheek!”

Dr. Nick Bontis
Director, Institute for Intellectual Capital Research
Professor of Strategy, McMaster University