UK: AKT PROJECT TO IMPROVE KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT

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The AKT (Advanced Knowledge Technologies) project is a collaboration between five research groups to develop technologies and systems that allow organisations to capitalise on information available to them. Costing GB[pound] 7mn it is designed to improve companies' knowledge management but prevent them being swamped by information. An information explosion, coupled with an increasingly skilled workforce has thrown the spotlight on knowledge management. The project, which has attracted support from industry, will look at all aspects of knowledge management from acquiring and maintaining it, to publishing and sharing it.

Product development, Knowledge-based systems, Advanced Knowledge Technologies

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US: UK PORK CONTROLS INTRODUCED

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The US Agriculture Department revealed on 16 August 2000 that temporary curbs on pig products and live imports were being introduced in the wake of the swine fever crisis afflicting English pork. The US plans to deal with such shipments case-by-case, using data available on individual deliveries. Over 12,000 pigs have been destroyed at six UK farms over the past nine days and the US move comes in the wake of the European Commission's decision to ban live English pig exports until end-August 2000.

United States, Government regulation, Prepared Meats, Meat Processed from Carcasses, Sausages and other prepared meats, Hogs, Hog and Pig Farming, Meat industry, Livestock industry, Swine

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UK: IMPROVEMENT IN MANAGEMENT TRAINING NOTED

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Management training has improved in UK firms both in terms of quality and quantity over the past ten years, according to the Institute of Management's Achieving Management Excellence study. The improvement in training, which is having a beneficial impact on financial performance, is also putting business executives on a more equal footing with overseas counterparts with regard to skills.

Management training

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