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Knowledge Management


How to Choose a Website Content Management System

Before you pick a content management system for your website, consider the scope and type of projects the CMS is supposed to manage.

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Find It. Use It.

It's a good bet your company possesses intellectual property it isn't exploiting. Here's how to identify those assets and turn them into new business.

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Recent Articles about Knowledge Management

IBM Releases New IDS Software Edition

IDS 11.5 features enhanced reliability and transaction performance.  Read more

IBM Unveils Business Content Services Solution

The tool helps analyze content created and shared by workgroups.  Read more

Red Hat, Alfresco Unveil Collaboration Solution for SMBs

Red Hat Exchange (RHX), a division of Red Hat, (NYSE:RHT) has teamed up with open-source enterprise content management company Alfresco Software to offer ...  Read more

People ROI

It's easy to measure the ROI on tangible expenses, but how do you measure ROI on your human capital expenditures? Read more

The Business Portal

In my last column I talked about the importance of vertical portals (vortals) in creating...  Read more

The Business Portal

In my last column I talked about the importance of vertical portals (vortals) in creating...  Read more

Get Smart

Should your company be doing knowledge management? Many companies are profiting from combining business processes with technology to create a collective corp...  Read more

Psychic Depreciation

A prediction that small companies will soon face a scarcity of intellectual capital.  Read more

Proprietary Information

Proprietary information, also known as a trade secret, is information a company wishes to keep confidential. Proprietary information can include secret fo...  Read more

Tech Grants for Small Firms

Nov. 17, 2006 -- The state of Kentucky has begun accepting applications for participation in a program that matches federal Small Busines...  Read more

Small Businesses Awarded NASA Contracts

Nov. 21, 2006 -- NASA has selected 287 proposals from small businesses nationwide for federal research and development contracts worth $2...  Read more

Proprietary Information: Nondisclosure Agreements

A strong nondisclosure agreement is especially critical to Silicon Valley businesses and other fast-growth companies. An employer must insist that all its...  Read more

Tech R&D Conference for Small Firms

March 6, 2007 -- The National Small Business Innovation Research and the Small Business Technology Transfer are co-hosting a conference o...  Read more

Choosing a Content-Management System

A CMS can be the backbone for your online presence, helping your company store, organize, and share content via the Web.  Read more

Measuring Returns on IT Investments: Some Tools and Techniques

Laptop computers could make a sales force more productive, but they also cost more than desktop PCs. Should a company buy laptops for its salespeople? Sof...  Read more

Low-Tech Smarts

Knowledge management isn't just for big companies anymore. Want a smarter company? Too bad you can't invest some serious dough in ...  Read more

IBM Upgrades InfoSphere Portfolio

The tool is designed to help clients use real-time data from across their businesses.  Read more

Measuring Returns on IT Investments: Some Tools and Techniques

Laptop computers could make a sales force more productive, but they also cost more than desktop PCs. Should a company buy laptops for its salespeople? Sof...  Read more

6 Step Web Site Process

Do you look like the possessed girl in the movie The Exorcist when you think about your new Web site project? If that's you, never fear, ...  Read more

NASA Awards Small Business Contracts

The space agency is providing $38 million to boost innovation at smaller tech firms.  Read more

Trade Secrets, By James Pooley. Osborne/mcgraw-hill, 630 Bancroft Way, Berkeley, Ca 94710; 145 Pp., $19.95.

A lawyer in the field explains to employers and employees how to protect proprietary data. An appendix spells out typical agreement forms, letters to dep...  Read more

Firms Gird for Brain Drain

A survey finds small businesses are better prepared than big corporations to handle a wave of retiring baby boomers.  Read more

Search

"The greatest business book ever," and more.  Read more

Is Your Company a TMO?

Companies structured to manage talent well will have an edge in an ever-changing business landscape.  Read more

Management Information Systems, By Donald W. Kroeber. Macmillan, 866 Third Ave., New York, Ny 10022; 266 Pp., $17.95.

As computers get more sophisticated, so does figuring out how to harness data processing. A specialist in information systems describes, with the aid of 8...  Read more

Keep Information Under Wraps

If you're making money, then someone out there wants your company's information, notes Alison Stein Wellner in the June 2003 Inc. article, "Spy v...  Read more

Managing Information Security

Protecting proprietary information is becoming evermore important, so many companies are looking beyond technology -- and their technology managers.  Read more

Creating a New Asset Class for Social Entrepreneurs

Participants at this year's SoCap conference talk about creating a new asset class for do-gooders.  Read more

Proximex, NEC to Offer Real-Time Security

The new application uses existing physical security systems to speed incident response times.  Read more

Managing Information Security

Protecting proprietary information is becoming evermore important, so many companies are looking beyond technology -- and their technology managers.  Read more

Why It's Time to Revamp the SBIR

A federal program meant to foster innovation seems to benefit only a select-few companies that are very good at winning grants.  Read more

Measuring Your Workforce to Build a Winning Team

We all know a great team when we see one, and the sustainable, competitive advantage that great teams provide. Being from Boston, two immediate examples ...  Read more

How to Improve Your Site's Search Engine Optimization

Search engine optimization can raise your website's profile, delivering more traffic, more customers, and bigger revenues. Here's how to make the most of thi...  Read more

Future Shocks

How market fragmentation is causing small companies to suffer.  Read more

Accentuate the Negative

Knowledge management, the art of mastering the information that lies within your company's walls, involves more than discovering what you know; it's what you...  Read more

Administration Committed to Innovation

Congress passes legislation to reauthorize the SBIR and STTR programs.  Read more

The Never-ending Controversy

Why the Pentagon will keep spending $7,600 for a coffee maker.  Read more

How Two R&D Programs Can Work For Small Companies

The National Science Foundation's Small Business Innovation Research program (SBIR) and the Defense Department's Small Business Advanced Technology progra...  Read more

How Two R&D Programs Can Work For Small Companies

The National Science Foundation's Small Business Innovation Research program (SBIR) and the Defense Department's Small Business Advanced Technology progra...  Read more