Authors: Jonathan-B.-Spira: KMWorld

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Jonathan B. Spira

Jonathan B. Spira is CEO and chief analyst of Basex (basex.com).

Articles By Jonathan B. Spira

Despite the fact that there are 56 million of us out there, people continue to struggle both with the definition of a knowledge worker as well as with self-identification.

Posted 05 Feb 2008 / February 2008 [Volume 17, Issue 2] Issue

The Collaboration 3.0 approach

Posted 31 Aug 2007 / September 2007, Trend-Setting Products 2007, [Vol 16, Issue 8] Issue

From knowledge to distraction

Posted 01 Mar 2007 / March 2007 (100 Companies) [Volume 16, Issue 3] Issue

Electronic content-a federal case

Newly amended Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP) concerning electronically stored information took effect in all federal courts on Dec. 1, 2006. This affects a large number of constituencies, ranging from CIOs to records managers to lawyers and judges.

Posted 28 Dec 2006 / January 2007 [Volume 16, Issue 1] Issue

Lost knowledge: file not found

Posted 27 Oct 2006 / November/December 2006, [Vol 15, Issue 10] Issue

Step up to the knowledge economy

In the past decade, a new and unprecedented challenge for companies of all sizes has arisen, one that may very well mean life or death for a particular organization. That challenge is finding a way to successfully capture and communicate the knowledge within it.

Posted 23 Aug 2006 / September 2006, Trend-Setting Products 2006, [Vol 15, Issue 8] Issue

Getting answers to questions

Posted 07 Jul 2006 / July/August 2006, [Vol 15, Issue 7] Issue

The knowledge imperative

[Editor's note: The first part of this article, "The $60 Billion Challenge," appeared in the April 2006 KMWorld.]

Posted 26 Apr 2006 / May 2006, [Vol 15, Issue 5] Issue

The $60 billion challenge

The challenge facing vendors of knowledge-sharing and collaboration tools (representing a $60 billion market in the aggregate) is in helping their customers move from an industrial age mindset to a knowledge economy mindset. It's actually not a challenge, it's an imperative.

Posted 27 Mar 2006 / April 2006 [Volume 15, Issue 4] Issue

A business plan for disaster

As a result of the three-day New York City transit strike in December, the millions of commuters who regularly travel into Manhattan or throughout the five boroughs had to find an alternate means of transportation or an alternate workplace.

Posted 01 Feb 2006 / February 2006 [Volume 15, Issue 2] Issue

The high cost of interruptions

Posted 01 Sep 2005 / September 2005, Trend-Setting Products 2005, [Volume 14, Issue 8] Issue

Time to (re)innovate the office?

Posted 01 Jun 2005 / June 2005 [Volume 14, Issue 6] Issue

In praise of knowledge workers

Posted 01 Feb 2005 / February 2005 [Volume 14, Issue 2] Issue

The road to Istanbul

Posted 01 Jan 2005 / January 2005 [Volume 14, Issue 1] Issue

Privacy in the collaborative business environment

Posted 01 Nov 2004 / November/December 2004 [Volume 13, Issue 10] Issue

Collaborative government knowledge

Posted 28 Jun 2004

IBM’s brave new workplace

Posted 14 May 2004