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Opinion
Industry experts and KM leaders share their ideas about the state of Knowledge Management in the world today and where it is going.

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Features

Putting the ‘human’ in ‘human-in-the-loop’ at KM & AI Summit 2025

Kim Glover, Director, Communications Change Management, TechnipFMC, will lead two sessions at this year's KM & AI Summit—'Cooking With KM: Knowledge Sharing & Building Skills,'"and "Storytelling for Collaboration & Change"—exploring how "human-in-the-loop" concepts reflect and affirm the broader purpose of AI, technology, and KM itself.

Examining the ‘nature’ of KM: Learning from the environment and humanity at KM & AI Summit 2025

You may not realize it, but there's much to learn about KM from the world around us—both in the natural and interpersonal sense. Examining these systems, from the buzzing of bee hives to the way our personhood has always shaped knowledge sharing, bears compelling insights for KM.

Beth Rudden will explore the human element of AI at KM & AI Summit 2025

There's a lot of trepidation when dealing with AI, and for good reasons. However, the key to utilizing the tech is to work with it, not against it.

Moving beyond the illusion of ‘AI is magic’ at KM & AI Summit 2025

At this year's KM & AI Summit, Seth Earley, CEO of Earley Information Science and author of The AI Powered Enterprise, will break down what makes AI work—and work successfully—in his session, "Building a Knowledge Architecture for Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)."

ViewPoints

KM 101 in the Era of AI: An Interview With Stan Garfield

One of the things KM can do for AI is to empower learning communities to help people how AI applies to them and how to navigate through changes generated by it.

Experts predict AI will continue impacting KM in 2025

AI continues to disrupt the knowledge management space and experts in the field predict that it's a trend that still hasn't reached its full potential, yet. In 2025 there's more room for improvement.

KMWorld 2023 sees a sea change

Most of the papers presented at the 2023 conference did not report on what had changed. Instead, they assumed and predicted that there would be substantial change.

KM and AI: Experts look at what lies ahead for 2024

AI and dreams of its potential rocked this past year as companies moved quickly to embed and offer their own version of chat assistants, predictive and generative AI, and more

Columns

The Dethroning of Deduction

AI's favoring of induction over deduction is the root of its power, for it lets it deal with the specifics that bedevil the application of broad major premises.

Knowledge Through Motion

Although large bodies of research have identified mind-body-environment connections, much of this research remains untapped and underutilized.

252 Million Walas

There are 195 countries in the world. How many more entrepreneurial innovation hotspots are out there, waiting to be tapped and awakened? In our high-tech, virtual world, all of the steps Pakistan has taken can be replicated virtually anywhere, regardless of your country's size, GDP, or location. Imagine the possibilities ...

What’s Obvious Tells Many a Lie

Settled knowledge is, in essence, a strategic use of shortcuts, which is an excellent strategy given our limited time and capacities.

Knowledge Management Whitepapers

Content reuse — the key to scaling businesses intelligently and quickly

Building the AI content pipeline — why structured content is the key to automation and personalization

2025 Content Trends

Assessing Business Value and Impact