Strategic Communication Skills for Knowledge Management Practitioners: Basic Communication Skills and Competencies

For the past two decades, Knowledge Management (KM) has been the trend du jour of business and technology. In today¿s world where organizations are facing pressures from globalization and changing technologies, and where knowledge has become the ¿coin of the realm,¿ the one segment that has not fully embraced KM is academia. One obvious reason for Knowledge Management not being widespread in academia is the lack of some of the strategic skills needed by the professionals that should manage knowledge in our institutions. This book takes a current perspective on KM, touting the transformation of intellectual capital for competitiveness, which includes the identification of strategic communication skills and competencies for institutional researchers, the professionals in academia that have been identified as playing the role of knowledge managers.