Comments on: The case for professional accreditation of KM https://realkm.com/2018/06/27/the-case-for-professional-accreditation-of-km/ Evidence based. Practical results. Sun, 03 Jul 2022 09:03:10 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.2 By: Stephen Bounds https://realkm.com/2018/06/27/the-case-for-professional-accreditation-of-km/#comment-22162 Thu, 28 Jun 2018 04:41:52 +0000 http://realkm.com/?p=12312#comment-22162 Hi Arthur,
Funnily enough, these challenges directly relate to the OpenKM initiative which is also available as part of RealKM.

I’ve just finished publishing a proposed list of KM roles, attempting to segregate strategic and architectural knowledge responsibilities from more operational KM concerns. Also has the benefit of providing a career path for people interested in KM. View them here.

And of course, the whole point of the OpenKM syllabus is an attempt to come to a consensus on important core competencies which all knowledge professionals should hold, as much to bulid confidence among the people who want to employ us as for consistency of professional standards.

]]> By: Arthur Shelley https://realkm.com/2018/06/27/the-case-for-professional-accreditation-of-km/#comment-22148 Wed, 27 Jun 2018 21:59:43 +0000 http://realkm.com/?p=12312#comment-22148 Thank you Stephen (and Bruce for earlier related article),
This is a BIG challenge and an important conversation for the “Knowledge Profession”. There are many “knowledge professionals” across a huge eclectic mix of disciplines, making it hard to clearly and concisely define what a Knowledge Professionsl actually is. This in turn makes it difficult to design and implement an accreditation scheme to measure “compliance” to the definition requirements. The question is,how does ANY person make quality decisions without knowledge? (Badly is the usual answer, excluding serendipity)
Without accreditation, how do stakeholders know who to ask for help – who is competent in the area of knowledge they need?
With accreditation, how todo you ensure it is comprehensive enough to include ALL aspects of relevant capabilities across our very interdisciplinary scope of interests/influence?
This will be one of the exciting challenges of cocreating and connecting our International Knowledge Society (very soon!)

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