KM @ Government of Kingdom of Bahrain

The governement of the Kingdom of Bahrain created a new body called the "Bahrain Excellence Centre" with the core reponsibility of utilizing talents and competencies within a knowledge management environment. I had the opportunity to attended a two day workshop on 26-27 April 2009 that was conducted by the Bahrain Excellence Centre at the Diplomat Hotel - Bahrain. The attendies were middle managers from the government and semi-government bodies. To highlight the importance of the workshop, there was a short visit on the second of the workshop by the Prime Minister H.H.Sheikh Khalifa Bin Salman Al-Khalifa.

The conductor of the workshop, Mohammed Buhiji asked a question to the attendies. He said:

"Is knowledge power?"
Most of the attendies agreed.

But then he commented:

"Knowlege is not power, Knowledge management is power!"

Personally, I was not surprised. We've studied in our Mgmt 711, with Dr. Stefania, where we studied Knowledge Management and saw how important it is to organisations' development and change. But it was great to see things happening on the ground, in my beloved country, and I having the honour to be part of it.

Regards to you guys,

Yasser, the excellence guy (just for today)