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Introduction:

There is no doubt that the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) industry has been and still is changing through time. The ICT industry is going at a fast pace as the products and services of the industry continue to be upgraded or replaced frequently. For ICT businesses to succeed they need to keep up and be up to date with what is going on in the industry, they also ought to be able to predict the future trend of their business relative to the future of the industry. This forecasting prediction helps to define organizational goals, missions, objectives, and future contingencies (Shaw, 2001, p. 117).

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Intelligence for Survival

Dr. Jay E. Gillette, a Ball State University professor in the Center of Information and Communication Sciences, explains in his leadership course: in the military the word “intelligence” means information. The military has a goal of gathering as much intelligence as possible. Intelligence is basically what puts anyone in a competitive advantage. The more a person knows and has intelligence meaning information, the more he or she is in a competitive advantage. The military uses intelligence to put them ahead of their enemies, ahead of other nations in general.

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Introduction
After looking through many literatures about knowledge management, it seems that many authors agree to the fact that it is a great ordeal to explain knowledge management. In the chapter A Practical Framework for Understanding KM written by Dr. Jay Edwin Gillette, states that knowledge management is complex due to the fact knowledge is complex (Gillette, 2002, p. 18). Even with the complexity of managing knowledge, it is important for organizations to adopt proper knowledge management to succeed.

Carl Frappaolo mentions in his book Knowledge Management that “it is perhaps the lack of a singular definition that has delayed the more wide-scale deployment of knowledge management” (Frappaolo, 2006, p. 8).

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Servant and leadership, two contradicting words that triggered my curiosity while coming across the essay Servant Leadership by Robert K. Greenleaf in the book The Leader’s Companion edited by J. Thomas Wren. As I researched, I have learned that, Robert Greenleaf was a well known writer who coined the concept servant-leadership in the year 1970 when he published his book The Servant as Leader (Greenleaf.org, 2002). Other authors as well as Greenleaf later produced other writings that were inspired by the concept servant-leadership (Greenleaf.org,2007, p.3-4).

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Flipping through a compilation of essays in the book “The Leader’s Companion: Insights on Leadership Through the Ages” edited by J. Thomas Wren, I have came across the crucial topic of moral development which is one important role of a leader. One might ask how does a leader instill moral thinking as well as behavior among others? The author of the essay, “Moral Development in Individuals”, Dr. Howard T. Prince II, explains that there are three possible ways to moral development, psychoanalytic, cognitive-development, and social learning.

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Oracle is accusing TomorrowNow, a unit of SAP, of stealing its proprietary information. SAP used customer login information to hack into Oracle databases, which includes customer support information such as copyrighted software and instructional documents, in hopes to provide support to customers and eventually have customers migrate to SAP.
SAP AG’s TomorrowNow chief executive Andrew Nelson denies Oracle’s claims and believes that TomorrowNow is using lawful methods to provide customer support, he said “we believe we’ve done absolutely nothing wrong, and we’re going to defend our position vigorously….our model is an appropriate and legal way to do business”.

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ITT has agreed to pay $100 million as a penalty for sharing classified military information overseas and will admit guilty to violating the 1976 Arms Export Control Act. ITT has been sharing with subcontractors overseas including China specifications of sophisticated military technology such as the sensitive night vision systems. The U.S. attorney in Virginia’s Western District, John Brownlee has made it clear in a statement that “when technology is illegally exported overseas, that jeopardizes the tactical advantage and jeopardizes the safety of the fighting force.” He hopes that this legal action against ITT will send a message to the rest of the industry.

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