Knowledge Management Explorer > Professional Organizations
These professional organizations serve knowledge management and related communities.

Knowledge Management Consortium International
"Society of executives, knowledge managers, scientists, and practitioners developing a shared vision, common understanding, and aligned action about knowledge management." Located in the  Washington, DC area. You can obtain a free sample issue of kmci's quarterly publication, Knowledge and Innovation: Journal of the kmci.

Association of Knowledgework
A professional community of knowledge workers and managers, organized into moderated communities of practice.

AIIM International
Association for Information and Image Management (AIIM), an "international organization made up of people in the information management community." Located in the  Washington, DC area.

European Consortium of the Learning Organisation
Consortium that explores "new directions for successful business and people development in a learning organisation perspective." Located in Belgium.

Society for Organizational Learning
A membership organization that is a "global learning community dedicated to building knowledge about fundamental institutional change." Located in
Cambridge, Massachusetts USA.

The Systems Dynamics Society
An international nonprofit organization devoted to encouraging the development and use of systems thinking and system dynamics. Located in Albany, New York USA.

Knowledge Management Professionals Association
KMPA is an organization of customer service and support professionals who gather to exchange, leverage and promote the best practices of knowledge management. [New]

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One of 16 specialized agencies of the United Nations, WIPO promotes the protection of intellectual property throughout the world through cooperation among nations. Located in Geneva, Switzerland.

Global Knowledge Economics Council
An international forum dedicated to global knowledge economics and fostering knowledge economics cooperation. 

KM Certification Board
An independent, non-profit organization for setting professional standards and providing certification for knowledge management professionals.

Knowledge Management at APQC
American Productivity & Quality Center is a leader in KM, helping launch it as a key business practice in 1996. They conduct original research, training, and conferences in KM. APQC's Carla O'Dell and Jack Grayson are co-authors of If Only We Knew What We Know, about sharing internal best practices. 

eKnowledgeCenter
Provides information about a KM Certification Program, which is affiliated with the Certified Knowledge and Innovation Management Professional Society (CKIMPS).

ARMA International
Not-for-profit international association of information management professionals. Members include records and information managers, MIS and ADP professionals, imaging specialists, and others. Located in Kansas, USA.

Data Warehousing Institute
"The premier educational association in the data warehousing industry." Located in Washington, DC area.

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The Knowledge and Innovation Management Professional Society
New non-profit association for KM professionals, offering training and certification, consulting, mentoring, career assistance, journals, and news.

Knowledge Management Benchmarking Association
"Brings together knowledge management professionals from a variety of companies...and conducts benchmarking studies to identify practices that improve the effectiveness of Knowledge Management activities." 

National Knowledge and IP  Management Taskforce
A non-profit consortium for advancing intellectual property (IP) practices.
Aims to improve the business, legal and technical processes by which IP is created, protected and leveraged.

Special Libraries Association
The Toronto chapter maintains a KM resource site containing links to KM sites, articles, and vendors. Includes a presentation on KM.

SCIP.ORG
Home of the Society of Competitive Intelligence Professionals, "an organization of individual CI professionals from countries across the globe".
Located in Washington, DC area.

Workflow Management Coalition
An international non-profit organization of workflow vendors, users, analysts and university/research groups.

International Federation of Library Associations
Provides a resource site for issues in copyright and intellectual property.

The Innovation Network
A membership organization and informative site about corporate innovation management and creative thinking. Located in Denver, Colorado USA.

 

Once upon a time it was the mining of ore and gold that generated wealth. Tomorrow it is going to be the mining of minds.
Leif Edvinsson


 


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