Evolution of KM

Knowledge management has a long and distinguished history. It was as long ago as the 1960s, when Peter Drucker first coined the term “knowledge worker”.

Some of the significant events were:
1986 – publication by Swedish knowledge management pioneer Karl-Erik Sveiby of The Know-How Company (with Tom Lloyd).
1987 – ‘Managing the Knowledge Assets into the 21st Century’ round table (between US academia, business and government) – one of the first nationwide efforts to harness intellectual capital.
1991 – appointment of Leif Edvinsson as Vice President of intellectual capital for Skandia, arguably the first formal board level appointment related to knowledge management
1991 – publication of seminal Harvard Business Review article by Ikujiro Nonaka on the ‘knowledge-creating company’, later expanded and published as a book with Hirotaka Takeuchi (1995)
1993 – ‘Intellectual capital: your company’s most valuable asset’ – article by Tom Stewart in Fortune that helped raise awareness of knowledge management in the world of business
1995 – first business seminars and conferences in the USA e.g. Knowledge For Strategic Advantage – co-sponsored by Arthur Andersen and the American Productivity and Quality Center, held in Houston.
1996 – first business conferences in Europe
1998 – The World Bank chooses the theme Knowledge for Development as the topic for its annual world development report.
1999 - Blog was introduced.
2000 - podcast considered as an “audio blog.” started becoming popular. Although Internet-based audio has been around since the early 1990s when they were known as “Internet radio” or “Web radio.

Character traits of the team members

Greater emphasis is given to the essential character traits of the team leader to be successful. These are:

trustworthiness,

objectivity,

motivational,

analytical

and self assured.

But the characters of the team members equally contribute to the success of the team. The essential character traits of the team members could be:

tolerance,

flexible,

eager to learn and explore,

genuine and honest,

adaptable to change

and team player.

The team leader has to essentially educate the team members on the above character traits to bring about change in the team members as these traits may not be conscripted.