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Introduction
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Insights
What is knowledge management (KM)?
KM involves the better use of what we know – our knowledge – to facilitate improved outcomes for organizations, sustainable development, society, and ourselves personally.
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About Us
Who are we, and what do we do?
Bridging the evidence-practice gap in knowledge management (KM) across 11+ years, achieving over 5 million views of more than 2,500+ articles.
RealKM KM Update
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RealKM KM Update
RealKM Knowledge Management Update No. 1,060 – 10 Sep 2026
This issue has a focus on artificial intelligence (AI) and knowledge management (KM) with a feature article and five research summaries. There's also a journal call for submissions and the next article in the rKM series.
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RealKM KM Update
RealKM Knowledge Management Update No. 1,059 – 27 Aug 2026
It's RealKM Magazine's 11th anniversary, and marking this, we're excited to bring you two very significant Feature Articles, and much more!
Feature Articles
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Artificial intelligence
From knowledge management to knowledge intelligence
What AI changes – and what it does not.
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ABCs of KM
Lessons learned – or lessons merely recorded?
Lessons identified are not necessarily lessons learned in US foreign and national security policy implementation.
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ABCs of KM
From knowledge repositories to knowledge infrastructure
How AI-enabled and Radical KM can reduce knowledge debt, cost and operational risk.
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Case studies in complexity
Case studies in complexity (part 8): Pauline Hanson and One Nation
Reform is needed across governments and the public sector to ensure meaningful and ongoing stakeholder and community knowledge engagement.
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Artificial intelligence
Disgraceful AI acts are growing. Will the knowledge management community be next?
The beneficial use of artificial intelligence (AI) is being seriously hampered by a continuing saga of disgraceful AI acts.
Evidence for KM Practice
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Artificial intelligence
Artificial Intelligence in Knowledge Management: Mapping a Decade of Research and Emerging Directions
By Gunawan, Siska Ayudia Adiyanti, Adi Dadan Ramdana, Granit Agustina, and Dadar Supriatna.
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Artificial intelligence
Artificial knowledge generation: investigating the revolutionary role of generative AI in knowledge management
By Roberto Cerchione, Giuseppe Liccardo, and Renato Passaro.
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Artificial intelligence
Environmental Cost of Artificial Intelligence: Carbon, Water, and Land Footprints
Report by the United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment and Health (UNU-INWEH).
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ABCs of KM
Developing the core principles of responsible knowledge management (rKM): Section 4.4 – Distribution of the sample
Analysis clustered the texts into three thematic dimensions.
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Artificial intelligence
‘Like drinking from a firehose’ – what it’s like to be the human in the AI loop
Human oversight must be valued and budgeted for in the transition to AI.
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Artificial intelligence
Trust in AI in the workplace is declining
Deloitte highlights five approaches that firms – its clients and others – are using to restore confidence.
Tools & Methods
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Tools & methods
Hiding in plain sight. A qualitative, text-based method for the analysis of websites
By Sarah Cummings, Bruce Boyes, Nyamwaya Munthali, and Rocio Sanz.
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Tools & methods
Three dimensions of context
What is involved in taking context into account when aiming for more comprehensive understanding of a problem?
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Tools & methods
Four strategies for improving knowledge exchange among scientists and decision-makers
The four strategies are knowledge co-production, embedding, knowledge brokers, and boundary organisations.
News & Community
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News & community
Call for submissions: Innovation, Diversity, and Inclusion in Organizational Management
Contribute to a new Special Issue of Management & Marketing journal. Submission deadline 28 February 2027.
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In the know
In the know: Perspectives on the spiritual dimensions of knowledge management (KM)
The Joching Manifesto of Spiritual Knowledge Management, Hanna M. Koskinen's response, and BANI and epistemic pluralism in KM.
Advocacy
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KM & SDGs campaign
Summary report of stakeholder inputs to UN 2027 GSDR reflects RealKM submission
Our landmark KM & SDGs campaign journal editorial is now a scientific reference for the 2027 Global Sustainable Development Report (GSDR).
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ABCs of KM
SDSN Report Confirms Strong Global Commitment to SDGs, Despite Headwinds
Most countries support the SDG framework, with India and China leading progress. But Argentina and the US consistently oppose resolutions.
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KM & SDGs campaign
KM Competency & Capability
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KM Triversary Forum 2025
Special series: Bridging the research-practice gap in knowledge management (KM)
This special series of articles summarises the keynotes and presentations from the KM Triversary Forum 2025.
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ABCs of KM
KM Landscape: reflections of the journey to nowhere, somewhere, anywhere, everywhere – walking, talking and working with no one, someone, anyone and everyone
Insights into the KM Landcape cocreative activity.
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KM Triversary Forum 2025
Summary of KM Triversary Forum 2025: Bridging the research-practice gap in knowledge management (KM)
14-15 October 2025, 130 participants including 10 keynotes and over 30 presenters.
From the Archive
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Lessons learned
Lessons Learned Life Cycle
In this 14-part series, Dennis Pearce explores the nine stages of what he calls the Lessons Learned Life Cycle.
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Analysis
The 4 lies of storytelling
Lies of omission, lies of assumption, lies of compression, and lies of progression.
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Brain power
How Machiavellians affect organisations
Exploring research into the traits and effects of Machiavellianism in organisations.
