Mark Chandler, Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary of Cisco, manages a team of 250 professionals. He is known within legal and business circles as a change agent. In this video Chandler talks about the steps he's taken to make legal services more efficient at Cisco...changes that have been recognized as nothing short of innovative by industry peers. Full Transcript: I'm Mark Chandler, I'm Cisco's General Counsel. To me, innovation is about finding a better way to get a result or to get a result that you couldn't get before by using tools that weren't available. The legal world is one of the last vestiges of the medieval guild system to survive into the 21st century and that means there's a lot of opportunity for constructive innovation. Smart Business Practices We do a couple of principal things in our relationship with our law firm service providers in order to drive greater efficiency and alignment. First, we try to ensure that everybody's working with the same technology platforms, both for knowledge management and the way we do our patent applications. Cisco Patents Online has made it much easier for engineers to disclose their inventions and to track the process of review of those. People's jobs create products and what we want to do is make sure we capture that inventive activity in a way that can be patented. Focus on Efficiency Second, we've tried to restructure the way we compensate firms so that the incentive is to get work done as efficiently ...

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Knowledge Management in an Organisation

Introduction

The society is in transition, from Agrarian society, Industrial society, Information society and now the 21st century is considers as the Global Knowledge society. The concept, knowledge management is often used today’s world. And in the knowledge based society, intellectual capital is considered as a prime resource for any organisation. Thus Peter Drucker said, “The foundation of an organisation is not money or capital or technology. It is knowledge and education (human capital), knowledge workers will be by 2005 the single largest group in the labour force”.

The emergence of new complicated situation made every organization to have knowledge management initiatives to accumulate, preserve and utilize the knowledge in systematic ways. Every world renewed organisations are now trying to achieve knowledge management principles for their operations.

It is concerned with the use and developments of knowledge asset of an organisation. The knowledge is either explicit knowledge or tacit knowledge. The explicit knowledge is called as documentary knowledge and the tacit knowledge or subjective knowledge is resides in the minds of employees/scientists and so on.

What is knowledge management?

It covers all process associates with the identification, sharing and creation of knowledge, but sharing of explicit knowledge can be easy than that of the tacit knowledge. but for successful knowledge management is an organization, creation of knowledge repositories and cultivating the habits of sharing the knowledge among employees and organisational learning.

Pre – Requisites: To develop a knowledge Management systems following are essentials.

Knowledge repositories: it is necessary to create knowledge repositories that stores knowledge and information both in documentary or digital forms.

Knowledge access: the knowledge or information stored in the repositories should be made available for easy access to all the employees of an organisation.

Enhancing knowledge environment: it is necessary to create conducive environment to produce knowledge, transfer and use

Knowledge management: knowledge is an asset of an organisation and a person that should be managed systematically.

Principles of knowledge Representation

A knowledge representation is a surrogate, set of ontological commitments, and fragmentary theory of intelligent reasoning, medium for efficient computation and medium of Human expression.

Reference

Book, George (1854) An Investigation into the laws of thought, reprinted by Dover publications, New York.

Born, Max (1949) National philosophy of cause and chance, Dover publications, New York.

Gartner Group, European E –work and knowledge management march 1998, pp.30 – 31.

Peter Drucker, (2000), knowledge work executive excellence, pp.11 – 12.

Minsky, Marvin (1965) “Mater, Mind and Models”, proceedings of IFIP congress 65, pp45 -49.

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Jonathan Wareham, Vice Dean of Research and Director of the ESADE Institute for Innovation and Knowledge Management (IIK). How is innovation shifting in today's economies? The importance of open innovation. The group's latest research

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Cribsheet 12.05.11
Please be a Cutswatcher for the Guardian Are cuts starting to bite in your school, college, university or local authority? Would you be so good as to tell us about what's happening? The Guardian has built an online Cutswatch tool that lets readers map public spending cuts across the UK. Not only can you report a cut, you can also offer a testimony of how the cut has affected you personally. My ...

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Cultivating Knowledge on the Flathead Reservation
Cytospora canker is widespread on aspen, willow, cottonwood and maple throughout Montana. It has been found on cherry trees around Missoula. What is unusual is not only how widespread this disease is but how lethal it appears to be.

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My recruiter is trying to push me to this 3DOX1 code in the Air Force Reserves. I scored really high in Administration and Electrical. My General score was high as well but my Mechanical score was low. Is this new field of the Air Force a good one or bad one. Im 25 years old with 102 units of college credits and want to finish up college while in the Reserves, but i do not want a stupid job. Is this job likely to be deployed to War zones or not likely? Please be thorough with answer. Its my future! Thank You.

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I’ve given 3 years of my life to researching and analysing business and management at college. Am I right to believe I now have enough skills and knowledge to get a management job in business soon after I graduate?

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