Ruth Rikowski's 17th News Update

Ruth Rikowski News Update No. 17




This Update is by way of another special issue, this time focusing on my work on Knowledge Management and the Knowledge Revolution. This includes both the talks that I have given and my published work on the topic.

TALKS GIVEN BY RUTH RIKOWSKI ON KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT AND THE KNOWLEDGE REVOLUTION

TALKS GIVEN IN 2001

1) Gave a special lecture to MSc students at Kingston University, on Knowledge Managment and the Knowledge Revolution, 13th June 2001. Based on my 2 articles in Business Information Review, 2000 (see published articles section below)

2) Spoke at the Open University, to library and information staff
Talk entitled Looking ahead in the information world, on 27th September 2001. Talk focused on I.T. and KM issues for the library and information profession in the future
http://216.239.59.104/search?q=cache:w7w9dadWFwAJ:library.open.ac.uk/aboutus/seminars/2001.html+ruth+rikowski+and+open+university&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=uk&ie=UTF-8

TALKS GIVEN IN 2002

3) Spoke at ASLIB Knowledge Management Conference. Talk entitled: The role of the informational professional in KM initiativesConference entitled Mobilising Knowledge for Business PerformanceHeld at Brunei Gallery, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, 8th May 2002.Talk based on a paper that later became a published article in Managing Information, May 2003 (see published articles below)

4) Gave a special lecture on Information Management and Knowledge Management in the Knowledge Economy to MSc students at Kingston University on 20th May 2002Talk based on my 2 published articles in Business Information Review in 2000 (see published articles below)

TALKS GIVEN IN 2003

5) Gave a talk at the Library and Information Show, Excel, Docklands on The Role of the Information Professional in Knowledge Management, 1st May 2003Based on my article in May 2003 issue of Managing Information (see published articles below)

TALKS GIVEN IN 2004
6) Gave a talk at the 'Marxism and Education: Renewing Dialogues' seminar held at The Institute of Education, University of London, on 5th May 2004. Theme of the seminar -'Education and the Labour Process'Talk entitled: On the impossibility of determining the length of the working day for intellectual labour Talk based on my article in Information for Social Change, Summer 2004 (see published articles below)7) Gave a talk at Birkbeck College, University of London - Marx, Individuals and Society Seminars, Winter 2004. Talk entitled: On the impossibility of determining the length of the working-day for intellectual labourTalk based on my article in Information for Social Change, Summer 2004(see published articles below)
8) Gave a talk on The Meaning of Value at London South Bank University, at a David Gurteen Knowledge Cafe on 7th September 2004. I considered various meanings of value and then asked participants to consider what they thought value meant. I concluded by saying that I think we need to return to a Marxist analysis of value, and that value is always being referred to in knowledge management circles - the need to extract value from knowledge. However, this value can only ever ultimately be derived from labour - and mainly from intellectual labour - and so we need to return to Marx. Furthermore, that we need to differentiate between subjective and objective definitions of value
See: http://www.gurteen.com/gurteen/gurteen.nsf/id/X0008BE66/

TALKS GIVEN IN 2005

9) Gave a special lecture to the MBA students at London South Bank University on 18th April 2005, on Leadership in the New Economy: extracting knowledge and ideas from intellectual labour - a Marxist perspective (This paper subsequently became a chapter in a book edited by me Knowledge Management: Social, Cultural and Theoretical Perspectives – Ch 3 – see below)


TALKS GIVEN IN 2006

10) Gave a talk entitled The creation of value from knowledge. Part of a workshop on ‘Value Theory in the Knowledge-Based Economy’, held at Lancaster University on 5th-6th April 2006.Based on 2 articles of mine: one in Information for Social Change, Winter 2004 and one in Policy Futures in Education, 2003 (see published articles below)

11) Gave a talk entitled On the impossibility of determining the length of the working-day for intellectual labour at the Workshop on ‘Work and the Knowledge-Based Economy’ at Lancaster University, held on 12th-13th July 2006Talk based on my article in Information for Social Change, Summer 2004 (see published articles below)Interesting feed-back followed on from the talk, particularly from Professor Bob Jessop, including various quotes from Marx about intellectual labour.
Both these talks formed part of the Knowledge-Based Economy Programme held at Lancaster University, 2005-2006, for the Institute for Advanced Studies (IAS)http://www.lancs.ac.uk/ias/annualprogramme/kbe/index.htm
Dr Steve Fleetwood, KBE Programme Director - s.fleetwood@lancaster.ac.uk
For general information about the IAS and its activities, contact:Professor Bob Jessop, IAS Director - r.jessop@lancaster.ac.uk

12) Gave a guest lecture to Masters student (MSc in Information Systems/MSc Electronic Commerce) at Kingston University on the topic of The Creation of Value from KnowledgeOn 4th April 2006Talk based on my article ‘Creating Value from Knowledge in the Knowledge Revolution’, published in Information for Social Change, Winter 2004(see published articles below)

PUBLICATIONS BY RUTH RIKOWSKI ON KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT AND THE KNOWLEDGE REVOLUTION
ARTICLES – both online and hard copy

2000
1) The knowledge economy is here - but where are the information professionals? (Part 1) Business Information Review, September 2000, Vol. 17, No. 3, pp. 157-167. See:http://bir.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/17/3/157

2) The knowledge economy is here - but where are the information professionals? (Part 2), Business Information Review, December 2000, Vol. 17, No. 4, pp. 227-233. See:http://bir.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/17/4/227

2002
3) Studying Knowledge Management at Masters level, with particular reference to South Bank University Managing Information, Nov 2002, Vol. 9 No 10, pp. 56-57

4) Knowledge Management References Managing Information, Dec, Vol. 9, No. 10

5) Studying Knowledge Management at Masters level, with particular reference to South Bank University (this is a longer online version of the article in Nov 2002 issue), Managing Information
http://www.managinginformation.com/knowledge_management/intro.htm

2003
6) Value - the life blood of capitalism: knowledge is the current key, Policy Futures in Education, Vol.1, No.1, 2003, pp. 163-182
http://www.wwwords.co.uk/pdf/viewpdf.asp?j=pfie&vol=1&issue=1&year=2003&article=9_Rikowski_PFIE_1_1&id=195.93.21.68

7) The role of the information professional in knowledge management: the beginning of the end or the end of the beginning for the information professional? Managing Information, May 2003, Vol. 10, No 4, pp.44-47

2004
8) On the impossibility of determining the length of the working-day for intellectual labour, Information for Social Change, Summer 2004, Iss 19
http://libr.org/isc/articles/19-R.Rikowski-2.html

9) Creating value from knowledge in the knowledge revolution Information for Social Change, Winter 2004, Iss 20
http://libr.org/isc/articles/20-R.Rikowski.html




BOOK

Knowledge Management: Social, Cultural and Theoretical Perspectives Chandos Publishing, Oxford, 2007,ISBN 1 84334 139 5Foreword by Professor Deian Hopkin, Vice-Chancellor, London South Bank University
Contributors include:Bob Bater, Isabelle Cabos, Paul Catherall, Bruce Lloyd, Ruth Rikowski, Leburn Rose and Mandy Webster

http://www.chandospublishing.com/catalogue/record_detail.php?recordID=67
This book focuses on various aspects of KM - including social, political and philosophical perspectives; practical perspectives and theoretical perspectives. It includes chapters about KM and intangible value, KM and wisdom, the role of the library in KM, accessibility issues for web-based information systems and thermodynamics and knowledge.Orders to: Turpin Distribution Services Ltd, Stratton Business Park, Pegasus Drive, Biggleswade, Bedfordshire. SG18 8TQ Tel No. +44 (0) 1767 604951 Fax No. +44 (0) 1767 601640 Email: custserv@turpin-distribution.com
The book includes several chapters by me:
Chapter 3: ‘Leadership in the knowledge revolution: an Open Marxist theoretical perspective and analysis
Chapter 11: Knowledge Management: an Open Marxist theoretical perspective and analysis
And
All of Part 3: Cultural Perspectives:
Chapter 6: Knowledge Management within and across cultures and cultural theories
Chapter 7: Knowledge sharing and organizational learning in the developed and the developing world
Chapter 8: Knowledge Management: internal, external and social cultures
Chapter 9: An Open Marxist theoretical analysis of knowledge management within and across cultures



N.B. If anyone wants hard copies of any of my published articles then just get in contact with me and I will send you the relevant copy (ies). Also, if anyone wants copies of any of my published articles in MI (in 15th News Update), then just let me know.


Best wishes,
Ruth


16th July 2007