Knowledge and Risk Management (Paper)

This very brief position paper provides a summary of the thinking behind knowledge management (KM) as a form of risk management and as a tool for enhancing corporate accountability and governance.  Chief among its claims is that KM, as a profession, is uniquely qualified to provide just the kind of quality control system required in business for knowledge, so that we (a) can kill our worst ideas before they kill us, even as we (b) take steps to enhance learning and innovation as a basis for superior adaptive performance. Of equal importance in this paper is the view that KM is emerging as one of many management disciplines aimed at controlling and mitigating corporate risk, and that because of this KM ought to report to the board.

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