IBM defines knowledge management aims

The IBM Nuclear Power Advisory Council
held its inaugural meeting last week, emerging with a list of 'top
nuclear power industry imperatives'. The meeting was held at the
company's Global Center of Excellence for Nuclear Power at La Gaude,
France. Concluding that "efforts to increase nuclear power generation
are hampered" by "several road blocks", the council said that risk
elements for new build need to be managed with visibility, integration
of new technology into existing plants needed to be pushed, and the
issue of an aging workforce was critical. The council said: "In the
global nuclear industry, 25% of labour will be eligible to retire over
the next five years, and the internet generation is far from interested
in filling their ranks." Addressing these issues would be the work of
the Center of Excellence in the coming period. Guido Batels, general
manager, IBM global energy and utilities industry, said "advanced
technologies are crucial to overcome IT design and implementation
challenges have traditionally held the industry back." Craven Crowell
of the council said, "Only by working together, and embracing new
technologies and new ways of collaborating will companies be able to
manage and transfer knowledge."
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