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Vol. 58 No. 10

October 2006

Knowledge Management

Identifying Future Leaders Through Knowledge Management

Simply retaining knowledge within an organization does not ensure its survival unless talented employees are ready to leverage that knowledge. Changing demographics within the petroleum industry raises concerns for the coming decade including the identification, development, and retention of an organization's future leaders. An existing, advanced knowledge-management (KM) community gives an organization's upper management a unique view of key employees' ability and willingness to solve technical problems, communicate, innovate, influence peers, and lead group consensus.

Synopsis of SPE 99898

This article, written by Technology Editor Dennis Denney, contains highlights of paper SPE 99898, "Identifying Future Leaders Through Knowledge Management," by K. Paylow, SPE, A. Hickman, SPE, and D. Zappa, SPE, Halliburton, prepared for the 2006 SPE Intelligent Energy Conference and Exhibition, Amsterdam, 11-13 April.

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