BUSINESSWEEK ONLINE : AUGUST 28, 2000 ISSUE
THE 21ST CENTURY CORPORATION -- THE NEW LEADERSHIP What Does a Knowledge Manager Do for a Living? Human skills, intuition, and wisdom are replacing capital as the most precious corporate resource. Knowledge managers seek to disperse those assets throughout the company and spin them into innovations. 1. At the senior executive level, a chief knowledge officer (CKO) explains the philosophy to other board members, and drums up funding for knowledge projects. 2. The CKO promotes job flexibility throughout the company, so that staff with smart ideas can execute quickly. That may mean letting a talented team of employees start a new product division, or even spin off a subsidiary. 3. At all levels, knowledge managers try to break up divisional logjams. The goal is to allow everyone in the company to quickly find out who has expertise in which areas. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _					RELATED ITEMS The New Leadership The Boss in the Web Age TABLE: The Boss in the Web Age TABLE: Now and Then: How CEOs Will Change over the Next 20 Years See the World, Erase Its Borders TABLE: Going Global: The Growing Importance of Worldwide Markets Up from Bean Counter TABLE: Desired Skills An Executive Whose Time Has Gone From Gearhead to Grand High Pooh-Bah TABLE: Not Just Any CIO Mining a Company's Mother Lode of Talent TABLE: What Does a Knowledge Manager Do for a Living? Hey, Are You Listening to Me? TABLE: What It Will Take to Keep Me as a Customer Perspectives: Getting Rid of Guesswork Wanted: Eclectic Visionary with a Sense of Humor TABLE: A Resume for the 21st Century Write Your Own Title Essential Reading for Modern Managers ONLINE ORIGINAL: Q&A with McKinsey's Lowell Bryan ONLINE ORIGINAL: Q&A with INSEAD's Subramanian Rangan ONLINE ORIGINAL: Custom-Designing the Global Corporation INTERACT E-Mail to Business Week Online

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