Tom Knight (consultant and author)

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Tom Knight is a consultant and author working in the field of knowledge and information management. He is co-author (with Trevor Howes) of a book on Knowledge Management (now also translated into Chinese), which made use of case studies from knowledge management work he conducted at the UK Department of Health, Ministry of Defence, Centrica, and Nortel Networks, among others.

He currently works as a Managing Consultant in the Information Management practice at Fujitsu, leading a team focused on information exploitation. He first joined ICL (which later became part of Fujitsu) in 1999 but left in 2005 to take up a position as Director, Government, in the Global Industries Group of EMC software division, returning to Fujitsu in 2007.

He was educated at Blairs College, Aberdeen, Glasgow University (where he gained a Bachelor of Music degree) and the Open University (where he gained an MBA).

A former journalist, he continues to write, and is a contributor to practitioner publications such as Inside Knowledge and Reach magazine, but occasionally also writes for non-specialist ones such as The Guardian.

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(With Trevor Howes) Knowledge Management: a blueprint for implementation (Heineman 2003) ISBN-13: 978-0-7506-4902-5; Chinese edition (Chunghua University Press 2005) ISBN 7-30-11808-6.

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