How Data Mining Uncovered Rampant Scientific Plagiarism and Fraud

How Data Mining Uncovered Rampant Scientific Plagiarism and Fraud, Harold “Skip” Garner 

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The author wanted to build software that would navigate medical jargon. He ended up uncovering widespread plagiarism and hundreds of millions of dollars in potential fraud

The medieval monastery as metaphor ~~ Designing space for knowledge work

"The new Cass Business School building in the City of London, designed by Bennetts Associates, draws on best practice in workspace design, with a strong emphasis on innovation and experimentation before and during the design process. This included academic research on historical learning spaces. The medieval monastery, and particularly the cloister, was identified as a type of space designed specifically for the creation and sharing of knowledge. One of the Cass library spaces features a broad cloister-like corridor, with semi-public study areas and places for private reflection and conversation. The whole design reflects transparency — seeing and being seen." continue reading

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Data Mining Pays Off: 'I'm a PC' made on a Mac

'I'm a PC' made on a Mac

Asher Moses, September 24, 2008 - The Sydney Morning Herald
"Microsoft's "I'm a PC" advertising campaign was created on a Mac and the celebrity spruikers brought in by the software giant are all professed Apple fans, it has been revealed.

Hidden information contained in images from the ads published on Microsoft's website show they were created on Macs, a Flickr user revealed in a published screen shot. "

Punchline: Screen grabs from Microsoft's I'm a PC campaign which features author Deepak Chopra ... who now turns out to be a fan of Apple's Macintosh computers.

India to dominate global KPO market - Media Monitoring

"The ambit of knowledge services typically spans areas like Business Research, Market Research, Investment Research, Data Analytics and intellectual Property." says Bhaswati Chakravorty in New Delhi, Dataquest

KPO:
What is KPO: The work entails doing equity research for overseas investment banks, research houses, consultancies and other financial institutions. The range of services covered by KPO includes intellectual property creation such as patent research, data mining, database creation and updating and analytical services such as equity research, competitive intelligence preparation of company profiles, industry reports and financial modelling. Says, Amitabh Sharma Virtual bridge - The knowledge process outsourcing industry Jamaica Gleaner News, July 11, 2007.

India to dominate global KPO market The Times of India, 23 Jul 2007
NEW DELHI: India, already known as the back office of the world, will account for two-third of the global Knowledge Process Offshoring (KPO) segment that could create up to 1.8 lakh new jobs here by 2011, a new study has said.

The worldwide KPO market is expected to grow to 16.7 billion dollar in revenues by 2010-2011 at an annual growth rate of 39 per cent. Of this, India would account for 11.2 billion dollars, according to the study by business research and analytics firm Evalueserve continue reading

Evalueserve Quarterly Sales Index Survey: What's Holding Back 'Small and Medium Sized Businesses' from Growing? Small Business Informer News, July 12, 2007

An In-Depth Analysis of the Indian Vendor Space along with Profiles of All Major Industry Players, July 10 2007 [Company Press Releases]

Gurgaon Bheja now Served Fresh in Wall Street, Puneet Mehrotra, Hindustan Times, July 19, 2007
Extract:

"Dogs and Indians not allowed"
Circa 1945, signboard outside the elitist British Club in Calcutta
"India is the 2nd biggest investor in London"
Circa 2006, small news snippet in the business page of a leading newspaper.
"Asathoma Sadhgamaya, Thamasoma Jyothirgamaya"
The above is a Sanskrit verse from an ancient Hindu text meaning from the unreal lead me to the real, from shadows lead me to the light. The great Indian brain is doing exactly that. Leading the world's largest money market into light. Yes, that absolutely right. Not talking about some mundane back office processing work. The work happening here is pure pundit-giri consisting of analysis and more, about which is a hot stock, where to invest, about mergers and charting the growth of the world's biggest financial market. In simple words brains at Gurgaon, out skirts of Mumbai and Chennai are actually running the Wall Street Market.

If that sounds like an understatement and too unreal to be real would somebody please answer what are companies like iRevna, Evalueserve, Fidelity, Copal Partners and others doing in India. Surely they can get cheaper labor in Philippines and perhaps many more countries. continue reading Gurgaon Bheja

PUNCHLINE - No Wonder:

Taj Mahal on a London visit with Shilpa, Dravid

See also on the same shelf and isle Knowledge Management aspects while Outsourcing Business Processes

Skills, Skills, Skills and Knowledge About People, Process, and Technology

Educating for a knowledge management future: Perceptions of library and information professionals, by Ross J Todd and Gray Southon, The Australian Library Journal, volume 50 issue 4 (2001) Full text

ABSTRACT: The emerging diffuse and complex discourse on knowledge management has, amongst many things, given some focus to the nature of education and training for professionals engaged in managing knowledge. The complexity of charting an educational and training pathway becomes apparent when considered against the plethora of perspectives of what constitutes knowledge management, as well as the various underpinning assumptions about its nature, contextualisation, role, and indeed, the meanings of its constituent terms 'knowledge' and 'management' This paper is the second part of the findings of a research project undertaken in 1999 and 2000 to identify the perspectives of experienced professionals working in the library and information sector in relation to knowledge management, and in particular to identify directions for the education and training of library and information professionals who wish to be engaged in managing knowledge. Part 1 identified considerable variation in levels of awareness of the term 'knowledge management', in the perceptions of knowledge management, and its relation to information management, and in the perception of the institutional understanding of and responses to knowledge management (Southon & Todd, 2001). source

Visualize theses skills here (A sample from the above article):
Table 1: Understandings required for knowledge management

Knowledge about knowledge
.Nature of knowledge.
.Creation of human knowing.
.How people acquire knowledge.
.Typologies of knowledge.
.Knowledge dissemination.
.Knowledge utilisation.
.Knowledge trends: globalisation, convergence.

People
.Needs analysis.
.Group and organisational dynamics.
.Psychology of people in groups.
.Strategies for creating a knowledge sharing culture.
.Ways people learn, think, absorb ideas.
.Learning styles.
.Cognitive science understanding.
.Understanding how people share information

Organisation
.Understanding of organisational culture.
.Structure, politics and needs of organisation.
.Business products and services.
.Role of knowledge in the organisation.
.The external market and competitive advantage.
.Understanding how organisations work: purpose, function, vision, mission.
.Cost benefits of knowledge management.
.Value of knowledge to the organisation.
.Understanding customer requirements.

Information
.Information management principles.
.Information management systems.
.Indexes and catalogues.
.Understanding how information is utilised.
.Synthesis of information.
.Holistic view of information theory.
.How to integrate knowledge and information into management systems.

Technology
.System specifications and applications
.Understanding the Internet as a global, networked information infrastructure
.Search engine algorithms
.Understanding impact of technology on the organisation
.Data mining