{"id":2,"date":"2008-04-15T15:15:37","date_gmt":"2008-04-15T21:15:37","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-08-31T13:42:13","modified_gmt":"2008-08-31T17:42:13","slug":"joes-bio","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/kmci.org\/alllifeisproblemsolving\/joes-bio\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe&#8217;s Bio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dkms.com\/images\/joefirestone.jpg\" alt=\"JoeFirestone\" height=\"215\" width=\"218\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%\"><font face=\"Arial, sans-serif\"><font size=\"3\"><strong>Brief Bio<\/strong><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%\"><font face=\"Arial, sans-serif\"><font face=\"Arial, sans-serif\"><font size=\"3\">Joseph M. Firestone, Ph.D. is Managing Director, CEO of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kmci.org\" title=\"KMCI\">Knowledge Management Consortium International<\/a> (KMCI), and Director and co-Instructor of KMCI&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kmci.org\/ckim-certificate.html\" title=\"CKIM Certificate Program\">CKIM Certificate program<\/a>, as well as Director of KMCI&#8217;s synchronous, real-time <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kmci.org\/kmcidistancelearning.html\" title=\"KMCI Distance Learning program\">Distance Learning Program.<\/a>  He is also CKO of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dkms.com\/\" title=\"EIS\">Executive Information Systems, Inc.<\/a> a Knowledge and Information Management Consultancy. Joe is co-creator of The New Knowledge Management approach, the KM prescriptive model of the Open Enterprise, and K-STREAM<sup>TM<\/sup>, the first comprehensive project and program methodology for Knowledge Management. Joe was the first to define and specify the Enterprise Knowledge Portal Concept, and is a leading writer, designer, commentator, and trainer in this area.<\/font><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%\"><font face=\"Arial, sans-serif\"><font face=\"Arial, sans-serif\"><font face=\"Arial, sans-serif\"><font size=\"3\">He is author or co-author of more than 150 articles, white papers, and reports, as well as the following book-length publications:  <em>Knowledge Management and Risk Management; A Business Fable, <\/em>UK: Ark Group, 2008,<em> <\/em><em>Risk Intelligence Metrics: An Adaptive Metrics Center Industry Report, <\/em>Wilmington, DE: KMCI Online Press, 2006<em>,<\/em><em> <\/em>&#8220;Has Knowledge management been Done,&#8221; Special Issue of <em>The Learning Organization: An International Journal, <\/em><em><strong>12, no. 2,<\/strong><\/em><em> April, 2005, <\/em><em>Enterprise Information Portals and Knowledge Management, <\/em>Burlington, MA: KMCI Press\/Butterworth-Heinemann,<em> <\/em>2003; <em>Key Issues in The New Knowledge Management<\/em>, Burlington, MA: KMCI Press\/Butterworth-Heinemann, 2003, and <em>Excerpt # 1 from<\/em> <em>The Open Enterprise,<\/em> Wilmington, DE: KMCI Online Press, 2003.<\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%\"><font face=\"Arial, sans-serif\"><font face=\"Arial, sans-serif\"><font face=\"Arial, sans-serif\"><font face=\"Arial, sans-serif\"><font size=\"3\">Joe is Director of KMCI&#8217;s CKIM Certificate and Distance Learning Programs, and also developer of the web sites <u><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dkms.com\/\">www.dkms.com<\/a><\/u>, <u><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kmci.org\/\">www.kmci.org<\/a><\/u>, <u><a href=\"http:\/\/www.adaptivemetricscenter.com\/\">www.adaptivemetricscenter.com<\/a><\/u>, and the blog &#8220;All Life is Problem Solving&#8221; at <u><a href=\"http:\/\/radio.weblogs.com\/0135950\">http:\/\/radio.weblogs.com\/0135950<\/a>,<\/u> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kmci.org\/alllifeisproblemsolving\">http:\/\/www.kmci.org\/alllifeisproblemsolving<\/a>. He has taught Political Science at the Graduate and Undergraduate Levels, and has a BA from Cornell University in Government, and MA and Ph.D. degrees from Michigan State University.<\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%\"><font face=\"Arial, sans-serif\"><font face=\"Arial, sans-serif\"><font face=\"Arial, sans-serif\"><font face=\"Arial, sans-serif\"><font face=\"Arial, sans-serif\"><font size=\"3\"><strong>Open Literature Publications since 2005<\/strong><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><font face=\"Arial, sans-serif\"><font face=\"Arial, sans-serif\"><font face=\"Arial, sans-serif\"><font face=\"Arial, sans-serif\"><font face=\"Arial, sans-serif\"><font size=\"3\"><em>Riskonomics: Reducing Risk by Killing Your Worst Ideas<\/em> (forthcoming, 2008)<\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%\"><font face=\"Arial, sans-serif\"><font face=\"Arial, sans-serif\"><font face=\"Arial, sans-serif\"><font face=\"Arial, sans-serif\"><font face=\"Arial, sans-serif\"><font face=\"Arial, sans-serif\"><font size=\"3\">&#8220;On Doing Knowledge Management,&#8221; <em>Knowledge Management Research and Practice <\/em><em><strong>6<\/strong><\/em> (2008), 13-22<\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Arial, sans-serif\"><font face=\"Arial, sans-serif\"><font face=\"Arial, sans-serif\"><font face=\"Arial, sans-serif\"><font face=\"Arial, sans-serif\"><font face=\"Arial, sans-serif\"><font size=\"3\"><em>Knowledge Management and Risk Management: A Business Fable<\/em> (Ark Group, February, 2008)<\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Arial, sans-serif\"><font face=\"Arial, sans-serif\"><font face=\"Arial, sans-serif\"><font face=\"Arial, sans-serif\"><font face=\"Arial, sans-serif\"><font face=\"Arial, sans-serif\"><font size=\"3\">&#8220;Part II &#8211; Lack of agreement on knowledge processing and knowledge metrics,&#8221; <em>Inside Knowledge<\/em>, <em><strong>12, no. 1<\/strong><\/em> (February 2008), 5.<\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Arial, sans-serif\"><font face=\"Arial, sans-serif\"><font face=\"Arial, sans-serif\"><font face=\"Arial, sans-serif\"><font face=\"Arial, sans-serif\"><font face=\"Arial, sans-serif\"><font size=\"3\">&#8220;Part I &#8212; State of KM: Growing but lacking agreement,&#8221; <em>Inside Knowledge<\/em>, <em><strong>11, no. 4<\/strong><\/em> (January 2008), 5.<\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Arial, sans-serif\"><font face=\"Arial, sans-serif\"><font face=\"Arial, sans-serif\"><font face=\"Arial, sans-serif\"><font face=\"Arial, sans-serif\"><font face=\"Arial, sans-serif\"><font size=\"3\">&#8220;From the Balanced Scorecard to the Adaptive Scorecard: An Adaptive Maturity Model,&#8221; BusinessIT Strategies Advisory Service, Executive Report, Vol. 9, no. 10, Cutter Consortium, Arlington, MA:, 2006. Available at: <u><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cutter.com\/offers\/adaptivescore.html\">http:\/\/www.cutter.com\/offers\/adaptivescore.html<\/a><\/u><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Arial, sans-serif\"><font face=\"Arial, sans-serif\"><font face=\"Arial, sans-serif\"><font face=\"Arial, sans-serif\"><font face=\"Arial, sans-serif\"><font face=\"Arial, sans-serif\"><font size=\"3\">&#8220;The Open Enterprise Software Template: An Analytic Hierarchy Framework for Measuring Aspects of Organizational Adaptive Functioning,&#8221; (An Adaptive metrics Center Industry Report Bundle), Wilmington, DE: KMCI Online Press, 2006. Available at: http:\/\/www.adaptivemetricscenter.com\/openenterprisetemplateamcreport.html.<\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Arial, sans-serif\"><font face=\"Arial, sans-serif\"><font face=\"Arial, sans-serif\"><font face=\"Arial, sans-serif\"><font face=\"Arial, sans-serif\"><font face=\"Arial, sans-serif\"><font size=\"3\">&#8220;The Balanced Scorecard: Developments and Challenges&#8221; KMCI Online Press, September, 2006. Available at: <u><a href=\"http:\/\/www.adaptivemetricscenter.com\/media\/BSCdevelopmentsandchallenges.pdf\">http:\/\/www.adaptivemetricscenter.com\/media\/BSCdevelopmentsandchallenges.pdf<\/a><\/u><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Arial, sans-serif\"><font face=\"Arial, sans-serif\"><font face=\"Arial, sans-serif\"><font face=\"Arial, sans-serif\"><font face=\"Arial, sans-serif\"><font face=\"Arial, sans-serif\"><font size=\"3\">&#8220;A Review of David Apgar&#8217;s <em>Risk Intelligence: Learning to Manage What We Don&#8217;t Know,<\/em>&#8221; Wilmington, DE: KMCI Online Press, 2006. Available at: <u><a href=\"http:\/\/www.adaptivemetricscenter.com\/Review%20of%20Risk%20Intelligence.html\">http:\/\/www.adaptivemetricscenter.com\/Review%20of%20Risk%20Intelligence.html<\/a><\/u><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Arial, sans-serif\"><font face=\"Arial, sans-serif\"><font face=\"Arial, sans-serif\"><font face=\"Arial, sans-serif\"><font face=\"Arial, sans-serif\"><font face=\"Arial, sans-serif\"><font size=\"3\"><em>Risk Intelligence Metrics: An Adaptive Metrics Center Industry Report, <\/em>KMCI Online Press, 2006. Available at: <u><a href=\"http:\/\/www.adaptivemetricscenter.com\/riskintelligencemetricsamcreport.html\">http:\/\/www.adaptivemetricscenter.com\/riskintelligencemetricsamcreport.html<\/a><\/u><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Arial, sans-serif\"><font face=\"Arial, sans-serif\"><font face=\"Arial, sans-serif\"><font face=\"Arial, sans-serif\"><font face=\"Arial, sans-serif\"><font face=\"Arial, sans-serif\"><font size=\"3\">&#8220;What Every Information Manager Should Know about Data Mining,&#8221; <em>Information Management Journal, <\/em><em><strong>39, no.<\/strong><\/em><em> 5<\/em> (September-October, 2005), 47-52<\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Arial, sans-serif\"><font face=\"Arial, sans-serif\"><font face=\"Arial, sans-serif\"><font face=\"Arial, sans-serif\"><font face=\"Arial, sans-serif\"><font face=\"Arial, sans-serif\"><font size=\"3\">&#8220;The Partners HealthCare Case for Improved KM&#8221; (with Mark W. McElroy), <em>KM Review<\/em>, <em><strong>8, no. 1<\/strong><\/em> (March &#8211; April, 2005), 6-7.<\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Arial, sans-serif\"><font face=\"Arial, sans-serif\"><font face=\"Arial, sans-serif\"><font face=\"Arial, sans-serif\"><font face=\"Arial, sans-serif\"><font face=\"Arial, sans-serif\"><font size=\"3\">Guest Editor (with Mark W. McElroy), <em>The Learning Organization<\/em><strong>, <\/strong><em><strong>12, no. 2<\/strong><\/em><strong> <\/strong>(April, 2005).<\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Arial, sans-serif\"><font face=\"Arial, sans-serif\"><font face=\"Arial, sans-serif\"><font face=\"Arial, sans-serif\"><font face=\"Arial, sans-serif\"><font face=\"Arial, sans-serif\"><font size=\"3\">&#8220;Has Knowledge Management Been Done?&#8221; (with Mark W. McElroy), <em>The Learning Organization<\/em><strong>, <\/strong><em><strong>12, no. 2<\/strong><\/em><strong> <\/strong>(April, 2005),<strong> <\/strong>105-111.<\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Arial, sans-serif\"><font face=\"Arial, sans-serif\"><font face=\"Arial, sans-serif\"><font face=\"Arial, sans-serif\"><font face=\"Arial, sans-serif\"><font face=\"Arial, sans-serif\"><font size=\"3\">&#8220;Doing Knowledge Management&#8221; (with Mark W. McElroy), <em>The Learning Organization<\/em><strong>, <\/strong><em><strong>12, no. 2<\/strong><\/em><strong> <\/strong>(April, 2005), 189-212 <strong>(Winner of 2006 Emerald Literati Network Award for Excellence as the outstanding paper of 2005 published by <\/strong><em><strong>The Learning Organization<\/strong><\/em><strong> Journal<\/strong>).<\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Arial, sans-serif\"><font face=\"Arial, sans-serif\"><font face=\"Arial, sans-serif\"><font face=\"Arial, sans-serif\"><font face=\"Arial, sans-serif\"><font face=\"Arial, sans-serif\"><font size=\"3\">Many earlier papers on Knowledge Management and Data Warehousing\/Data Mining available at the various web sites above.<\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Arial, sans-serif\"><font face=\"Arial, sans-serif\"><font face=\"Arial, sans-serif\"><font face=\"Arial, sans-serif\"><font face=\"Arial, sans-serif\"><font face=\"Arial, sans-serif\"><font size=\"3\">In addition to his writing, research, and training activities, Joe also provides <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dkms.com\/consulting.htm\" title=\"EIS Consulting\">consulting <\/a>in the areas of Knowledge Management, Enterprise Portals, and SOA Architecture.<\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brief Bio Joseph M. Firestone, Ph.D. is Managing Director, CEO of the Knowledge Management Consortium International (KMCI), and Director and co-Instructor of KMCI&#8217;s CKIM Certificate program, as well as Director of KMCI&#8217;s synchronous, real-time Distance Learning Program. He is also CKO of Executive Information Systems, Inc. a Knowledge and Information Management Consultancy. 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