18 July 2011 0 Comments

Intellectual property rights: is South Africa failing?

In a recently-published article, Sharon Dell writes that “South Africa’s current intellectual property rights regime is failing to support the national system of innovation and is actively disadvantaging local inventors while facilitating exploitation by foreign interests”.

22 January 2011 0 Comments

Wikipedia — ten years old!

It has certainly courted notoriety since its implementation and has also received its share of plaudits. Wikipedia was founded on 15 January 2001. What is its future?

11 January 2011 0 Comments

2011 — It’s going to be VEVEM!

Very Exciting and VEry Messy — that is what Mark Anderson, a technology commentator interviewed on the BBC World Service, has to say about the year 2011.

20 October 2010 0 Comments

Are you working too hard?

The results of the 2010 LexisNexis International Workplace Productivity Survey conducted in five countries, including South Africa, has important implications for Knowledge Management.

1 July 2010 0 Comments

The collaborative inter-prise is coming to fruition

While reviewing some the excellent recent contributions to the literature of knowledge management, it struck me again how prescient some of the older generation KM gurus were (still are?) in reading the emerging trends – even before or at the time of the dot.com crash. While the influential contributions of Peter Drucker stand out, I [...]