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Moore's law is the gift that keeps on giving. It has enabled countless breakthroughs as we've passed from the Industrial Age to the Information Age to the Knowledge Age. More [...]

Bharat (the original name of present-day India) should be on KM'ers radar screens for several reasons. In the ancient Sanskrit language, bharat means 'in search of light and knowledge.' One [...]

No doubt about it, gencrative Al (GenAI) has been the tech story of the year. A session at the Al I Governance Alliance of the W orld Economic Forum 2024 [...]

Eight billion? Actually, at some point in the coming year, it will be 8.1 billion. That's the number of human J minds inhabiting our planet. Some will just be entering [...]

With worrying news about rogue AI and Skynet, bioengineering and bio-superweapons, possible cancer-causing 5G, and more, the future can look pretty scary. But it's not all gloom and doom. On [...]

We seem to go back and forth between data and knowledge. Perhaps you recall the 1990s. Spurred on by Drucker, Davenport, Prusak, and others, we joyously celebrated the dawn of [...]

Ask anyone to describe the current times in one word and you'll get a variety of responses, from turbulent, chaotic, and even dangerous to promising, exciting, and enriching. Put it [...]

The vast orbital space surrounding Earth's atmosphere isn't so vast after all. In fact, some of the many thousands of objects traveling at more than 10,000 miles per hour are [...]

You're probably familiar with the endless parade of ROIs out there--from return on investment to return on information. Recent incidents have called attention to another type of ROI. Welcome to [...]

In past issues of KMWorld, we would occasionally take a look at future trends impacting KM, usually with a 5-10 year horizon. Our last attempt was in our January 2019 [...]

We launched the Enterprise of the Future program along with this column back in 2006. It was a time when change and complexity in the marketplace were increasing at an [...]

'The future ain't what it used to be.' That famous quip by Yogi Berra may hold true now more than ever. Almost 2 decades ago, International Institute for Knowledge and [...]

In this column, we've explored the tendency of our global socio-economic systems and enterprises to expand and contract and to move back and forth between massively centralized and widely decentralized. [...]

We've barely had a chance to fully absorb Web 2.0 and its implications, such as technology-driven social amplification, which we've discussed in this column in the past. More recently, we've [...]

Not fusion and fission in the nuclear sense. We're talking organizational. Many enterprises looking to succeed in today's global economy believe that achieving sustained growth means choosing between two opposing [...]

Professional basketball has a 24-second shot clock. In the NFL, the median time from when the ball is snapped until the quarterback picks a receiver and throws for a pass [...]

The American Red Cross is no stranger to crises and disasters. When things go bad, it is often among the first organizations on the front lines lending assistance. Yet, last [...]

You've probably heard about hypertext, hypercubes, hyperloops, hypermarkets, or--heaven forbid--hyperinflation. Let's take a look at one of the more exciting trends in the realm of all things hyper. Welcome to [...]

We've been hearing a lot about infrastructure lately. After all, it's the fabric upon which much of our global economy depends. From raw material exploration and extraction to design, processing, [...]

There's a blue wave coming. It's not the kind of blue wave that political pollsters talk about, although politics is and will continue to be heavily involved. Besides, it covers [...]

In recent issues, we've examined some of the major challenges we're facing as we enter the millennium's third decade and the key role knowledge-based enterprises will play in shaping our [...]

With this issue, KMWorld magazine marks the beginning of its 30th year. Launched in January 1992 as Imaging World magazine, a journal dedicated to the document imaging/management and workflow systems [...]

For the first time ever, the KMWorld conference went completely virtual this year. This presented an excellent opportunity to apply the principles and practices of virtual collaboration and knowledge sharing [...]

In the late 1990s, Clayton Christensen coined the term 'disruptive innovation.' It was heralded as a way to smash through the tendency for slow, incremental, and supposedly 'safe' change. In [...]

In the 14 years that KM World has been publishing this column series, there has been an effort to avoid reacting to the 'crisis du jour.' Instead, we've focused on [...]

One thing about the enterprise of the future that never changes is that it never stops changing. By definition, it's engaged in a continuous process of self-renewal built on a [...]

We've seen the emergence of all things deep: deep learning, deep AI, deep semantics, even 'deep fake.' Some disciplines have been quick to hop aboard this trend, others more slow. [...]

For more than 13 years, this column has been tracking ongoing research into building and growing an enterprise of the future. This research has produced a set of attributes for [...]

You've probably heard about Tay, the infamous chatbot developed by Microsoft (www.microsoft.com). It even had its own Twitter account. Unfortunately, it barely lasted a day before it had to be [...]

Analytics is all the rage these days. Organizations around the globe are scrambling to attract the very best data scientists. But many who are hiring don't know what's going on [...]

When people hear the word 'convergence,' they usually think of the harmonious blending of two or more technologies. A good example is the mobile phone, which has evolved to the [...]

Over the past 13 years, this column has kept a watchful eye on emerging trends and ways in which we KMers can actively participate. One vitally important area upon which [...]

For more than a decade, this column has explored many of the challenges encountered when building knowledge-based enterprises. High on the list is building and sustaining an educated and engaged [...]

It's hard to believe we'll soon be entering the third decade of the millennium. During the past 10 years we've witnessed the transfer of several breakthrough technologies from the laboratory [...]

This article continues the investigation into the distinction between natural and artificial systems, why it's unnatural to force one to behave as the other, and how both of them together [...]

Anbar Province, Iraq (Summer 2006)--A U.S. Navy SEAL Task Unit was assigned one of the most difficult and dangerous missions imaginable: rescuing a teenaged Iraqi civilian being held for ransom [...]

The word 'deep' has been gaining popularity. Deep learning. Deep medicine. Deep science. And the latest hot topic in the political sphere, the 'deep state.' All reflect a growing desire [...]

If there's one thing about the future of which we can be certain, it's that it will be extremely turbulent. Our forecasting research indicates that the coming decades will be [...]

It was a breezy afternoon last December when more than 800 people, including the president pro-tempore of the California State Senate, gathered under Oakland's famed 120-foot-high Rotunda for the Northern [...]

You have to admit, it's a great time to be an enterprise of the future. Many of the breakthrough possibilities we've discussed in this column over the years, like driverless [...]

The annual budget season is here. Whether you're in the public, for-profit or non-profit sector, the scene is pretty much the same: fighting over where to make those dreaded 'cuts.' [...]

The article presents the discussion on rapid growth in information and knowledge. Topics include overwhelmed by ever-increasing speed and volume, organizations increasingly rely on AI, machine learning (ML), and automation to sort it all out; and private, independent, peer-based servers on which they run, many with open source software.

Both the private and public sectors have been steadily downsizing and closing their physical libraries, which some consider to be nothing more than warehouses that take up space and lose [...]

In our complex, fast-changing world, there's never been any shortage of danger or opportunity. To make things even more challenging, those two opposites are frequently fueled by hype, usually for [...]

That's what we said over a decade ago when we embarked on our quest for the enterprise of the future. Back then and even more so today we've maintained that [...]

Trust is a hot topic these days. In politics. National security. Food and drug safety. Business and finance. It's hard to find any area of life that doesn't rely on [...]

We've taken steps in this column not to get dragged into the humans vs. machines debate. Many think the world is moving ever-closer to that so-called 'singularity' in which machine [...]

Building and sustaining an enterprise of the future requires a robust planning process. One of the challenges, especially with long-term strategic planning, is the tendency to focus on activities. Start [...]

You want to develop a new product or service. Expand your market. Attract, hire and retain the best knowledge workers. But there's one nagging issue that keeps coming up. It [...]

As we've looked ahead to the future in this column for the past 10 years, we've always tried to maintain a positive outlook. After all, we're co-creating our own shared [...]