Editorial

Citation

Stankosky, M. (2007), "Editorial", VINE, Vol. 37 No. 4. https://doi.org/10.1108/vine.2007.28737daa.001

Editorial

Our executive interview treats the convergence and intra-workings of knowledge management, e-learning, and innovation. There is an annual international event, global forum, whose theme this year is the convergence of integration and innovation: building the collaborative knowledge society. Remember from past editorials, we are in a knowledge-based economy, where knowledge is the new raw material that produces the majority of goods and services we enjoy today. A great part of that raw material is found in human, structural, and social capital. Have you ever wondered what a pound of knowledge is worth? Or the value of a professional relationship? What does it take to learn and innovate? How does one really find the relevant knowledge and information out of the billions of pages floating around? How do I connect to the right people at the right time to produce what I am supposed to? There are many other questions like these that have pertinence in our knowledge economy and society.

Our two lead portfolio articles treat aspects of those various questions. Dan Holtshouse provides his talented insights by tackling several of these issues in his paper; and Patrice Jackson proposes a systems approach for human capital management. Alex and Dave Bennet’s portfolio article provides insights on how to put organizational learning to work. The rest of the articles (nine in number) deal with various aspects of these questions. The authors are professional, diverse, geographically dispersed, and deal insightfully with these very issues. I am pleased to see not only some theories evolving, but also the high number of case studies, where we can see knowledge management, learning, and innovation in practice.

Dan Holtshouse also took on the daunting challenge of reviewing one of the largest encyclopedias on these topics. There may well be a million ideas contained in those pages. Thanks, Dan, for doing such a fine piece. You clearly are a knowledge master at work.

I invite you to e-mail these authors and myself, providing us with your own special way of viewing and treating these topics. The more we connect to each other, the richer our lives and economies become. We all innovate and learn efficiently and effectively when we collaborate and leverage the available information and knowledge.

I want to close by saying a special thank you to Joanne Freeman, whose invisible workings ensure this editor gets his stuff in on time, and in the manner prescribed. By my tally, this is my eight journal, and consequently I owe her thanks to the eight power.

I look forward to hearing from you. Again, my e-mail: mstanko@gwu.edu

Michael Stankosky