KMWorld November/December 2006 Andy Moore . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Passing the Cringe Test: Has KM Made It to Prime Time? Once upon a time, saying the words “knowledge management” was the fastest way to get thrown out of a meeting. And not only would you be ejected, you would never be invited back. . . . Paul Sonderegger, Endeca . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 People Judge Rele...

BACKGROUND Specialty pharmacy is a growing area of research, utilization, and cost. Because of the unique nature of the diseases treated by specialty pharmaceuticals, such as cancer and rheumatoid arthritis, novel management approaches are needed. Advocate Physician Partners (APP) is an entity within the Advocate Health Care Health System in the Chicago and the central Illinois area. It coordin...

Pesticides need to be applied accurately and uniformly. Too little pesticide results in poor pest control and reduced yields, while too much injures the crop, wastes chemicals and money, and increases the risk of polluting the environment. Achieving satisfactory results from pesticides depends heavily on five major factors: 1. Positive identification of the pest. 2. Choosing the least persisten...

Farming imposes unenthusiastic externalities upon society. It effects by differ‐ ent sources such as loss of biodiversity, land erosion, nutrient overflow, more water usage and pesticides. Optimistic externalities include respect of nature, independence, free enterprise, and the quality of air. Natural methods decrease some of these costs. It has been proposed that organic farming can reduce th...

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A Global Framework for Best Management Practices for Fertilizer Use IPNI Fertilizer BMP and Nutrient Use Efficiency Working Group: Dr. Tom Bruulsema (Chair), Northeast North America Director Dr. Fang Chen, Southeast China Deputy Director Dr. Fernando García, Latin America Southern Cone Director Dr. Svetlana Ivanova, Eastern Europe and Central Asia Group Coordinator Dr. Shutian Li, Northwes...

Best management practices (BMPs) started in Florida citrus (Citrus spp.) in the 1990s and have evolved to play a major role in production practices today. One of the earliest BMPs in Florida arose from concerns over nitrate-nitrogen concentrations in some surfi cial groundwater aquifers exceeding the 10 mg·L–1 drinking water standard. This occurred in an area of well-drained sandy soils known a...

Noncommercial use, reproduction and distribution of all or any portion of the American Dental Association's Best Management Practices for Amalgam Waste is permitted solely for educational or scientific purposes, provided that this copyright notice is prominently displayed on each copy of the work. Third parties are expressly prohibited from creating derivatives of this work without the prior wr...

The paper provides a critical review of the development of information center through different phases, transformation of the information center in response to the inter-disciplinary imperatives of information and knowledge management, IT imperatives, trends in the areas of content, services, management, and personnel, and future possibilities and prospects. An extensive review of literature wa...

This review paper examines the question of how to facilitate a more effective system of community knowledge mobilization given institutional and cultural separation among researchers and community practitioners. Several perspectives are explored as the specific topic of knowledge mobilization has received limited treatment in the literature. Related perspectives include the development of organ...