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Climate Change and the Industry

The recently published Fourth Assessment Report on Climate Change of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) states clearly that the more than ever experienceable change of our planets climate is a direct result of our actions. In that report the following is stated:

Global atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide have increased markedly as a result of human activities since 1750 and now far exceed pre-industrial values determined from ice cores spanning many thousands of years. The global increases in carbon dioxide concentration are due primarily to fossil fuel use and land-use change, while those of methane and nitrous oxide are primarily due to agriculture.

Since the IPCC's Third Assessment Report, published in 2001, this actual report leads to a very high confidence that human activites are forcing a global warming. The big international echo and responses of politics in industrialized countries and emerging markets will lead to changes in the boundary conditions of industrial organizations, and by that forcing change onto them.

Information Technology traps to Knowledge Management

Knowledge Management projects often start with introduction of new or improved Information Technology solutions where Databases and Data Representation in various Forms are involved. Objective of such projects is the effort to improve corporate performance by sharing information amongst employees. Despite the rosy picture some vendors paint there are areas in such projects often overlooked that bring a good project idea to downfall in the realisation.

Online systems for compiling and sharing knowledge throughout an organization are popular and useful when they are a real fit to the organizations requirements and objectives. Otherwise such projects will die a silent death in operational use, or other phenomenoms arise that have its root cause in the social system of the organization making it usefull only to a limited circle of people.