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Article: Knowledge Management: Searching For Knowledge.
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- Insurance Networking News: Executive Strategies for Technology Management
- Article date:
- October 1, 2007
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Have you ever had to find a stud to hang a picture? You knew the stud was there ... somewhere ... beneath the surface, but you just couldn't find it without exhaustive searching. Finding studs is like locating knowledge management and knowledge personnel in today's insurance industry: You know they're there, but at first glance they're always hard to find.
Around the time of the dot-com boom, knowledge management was one of the buzz-worthy trends infiltrating business and insurance circles. Formally established as a discipline in 1995, knowledge management, and the inception of the chief knowledge officer, had gained steam throughout the late 1990s, but fell off ...