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SMR International specializes in the management of knowledge services and the
relationship of knowledge services to knowledge strategy development. The
company is known for excellence in delivering consulting, publishing, and
strategic learning services to its clients, and the company’s reputation in its
field is unsurpassed, thanks to the expertise and commitment of the finest team
of KM/knowledge services specialists working in the knowledge domain today. Guy
St. Clair Guy St. Clair is President, Consulting Specialist for Knowledge
Strategy, and Knowledge Services Evangelist for SMR International. In his
professional work, Guy is recognized as an expert adviser in knowledge services
and in building the organizational knowledge culture, with a special emphasis on
knowledge strategy development. Guy is a prolific author and a frequent speaker
on management and leadership issues relating to KM and knowledge services. In a
filmed interview (available for view on Guy’s Profile on LinkedIn) with
Knowledge Value Chain® expert Timothy W. Powell, Guy talks about knowledge
services and knowledge strategy. In another filmed interview (also available for
view on Guy’s Profile on LinkedIn), Tony Saadat of Soutron Global, SMT
International’s long-time strategic affiliate, interviews Guy about his book —
Knowledge Services: A Strategic Framework for the 21st Century Organization —
published in 2016 by De Gruyter. Guy’s other books are listed in his Wikipedia
site and on his Amazon Author Page. In June, 2017 Guy’s article “Knowledge
Services: Your Foundation for Building the Twentieth-First Century Knowledge
Organization” was published in Issue 85 of Leader to Leader, the award-winning
journal of the Frances Hesselbein Leadership Institute (formerly the Peter F.
Drucker Foundation). In the article, Guy provides direction for senior
executives and organizational leaders seeking to initiate and implement
knowledge services in the workplace. Many of Guy’s presentations, articles,
special reports, briefings for clients and colleagues, white papers, and other
professional writings can be accessed through SMRShare. Additionally, SMR
International blog posts can be accessed by subject using the search engine for
the site (to the right) or accessed by date (see chronological listing, also to
the right). With Dale Stanley, Deb Hunt, and other members of the SMR
International team, the company provides consulting services and strategic
learning activities for a wide range of companies and organizations, including
non-profit and not-for-profit organizations. In addition to his work with SMR
International, Guy teaches at Columbia University in the City of New York. In
2010 Guy came to Columbia to work with the university’s School of Professional
Studies in developing the M.S. in Information and Knowledge Strategy program,
and he was for four years a Lecturer and Subject Matter Expert for Knowledge
Services in that program. Guy currently serves as Lecturer in Knowledge Services
for the school’s Postbaccalaureate Studies Program, teaching Managing
Information and Knowledge: Applied Knowledge Services. Guy is also the Series
Editor for Knowledge Services, the new series from Verlag Walter de Gruyter
GmbH, Berlin, the scholarly publishing house specializing in academic
literature. Guy and Barrie Levy, his Associate Lecturer at Columbia University,
are the authors of the first title in the series, The Knowledge Services
Handbook: A Guide for the Knowledge Strategist, published by De Gruyter in 2019.
Two other titles in the series were published in 2020: Powell, Timothy W.: The
Value of Knowledge: The Economics of Enterprise Knowledge and Intelligence.
Garfield, Stan. Handbook of Community Management: A Guide to Leading Communities
of Practice. Two new titles are currently scheduled for publication and will be
announced when available for purchase: Stepanek, Marcia: Knowledge Services and
Knowledge Strategy: Closing the New Digital Divide (2021). Edler, Beatrice:
Knowledge Services and Privacy-by-Design: The Nature of Doing Business in Modern
Innovation (2022) The new series presents and discusses new and innovative
approaches to knowledge sharing used in all fields of work, with authors chosen
to provide critical analysis of issues and present solutions to selected
knowledge leadership challenges. Since knowledge services is industry and
workplace agnostic, the series strives to present practical solutions that can
be applied in all institutions worldwide. It thereby contributes significantly
to improvements in knowledge management, knowledge services, knowledge strategy
development, and knowledge sharing within the organization.
