People-focused knowledge management

Perspective
Lead and Govern
Strategize and Steer
Plan and Manage
Select, Direct, and Operate
Implement, Manipulate, and Apply
the Societal / Global Intellectual Capital
(IC / Knowledge-Related) Processes & Developments
to Maximize Societal Viability & Success
the External Knowledge-Related Relationships
with Customers, Suppliers, Stakeholders
to Achieve Enterprise Objectives
the Internal Knowledge-Related Enterprise Operations
to Maximize
Enterprise Effectiveness
the Selections from "1001" Ways of Managing
Knowledge to Practice Deliberate & Systematic
Knowledge Management
the Selected KM Methods and Mechanisms
to Handle and Use Knowledge by People,
Organizations, & Devices(IT)
Figure 7-1
Five levels of role perspectives on IC governance-KM. Copyright © 2000
Knowledge Research Institute, Inc. Reproduced with permission.
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Table 7-1
Focus, scope, and examples for the five IC governance-KM perspective levels.
Perspective
Focus
Scope
Example Activities
Theoretical Field
Examples
Global/Societal
Intellectual capital
Build knowledge-
Systematize
Socioeconomic
Perspective
governance
related capabilities to
education for future
science
improve societal
workforce 
Political
competitiveness and
Rely on best expertise
science
capabilities\
anywhere in the world