What´s Knowledge Management?

In our society, we can see many different kinds of social setting and one of the most common settings is coffee shop. Indeed, there is at least one coffee shop on each block. According to Coffee Association of Canada, the market size of coffee industry in Canada is more than 6.2 billion dollars. It shows that how big and important this social setting is. Among a lot of coffee shops, Starbucks, Tim Horton, and Second Cup are the biggest and the most popular franchisers in Canada. If the purpose of visiting coffee shop is only for coffee itself, they might have not been grown like these days.

"Improving customers' lives by providing an opportunity to for people to socialize over premium drinks while relaxing in a casual café environment" (Blenz Coffee)

Coffee quickly became the drink of intellect and industry being known to sharpen the mind. Taverns were replaced with a more sophisticated meeting place, the coffeehouse. These “led to the establishment of scientific societies and financial institutions, the founding of newspapers, and provided fertile ground for revolutionary thought.” [4]

“The concept behind the business is to create a place for social gatherings that’s a little bit outside of the norm. When most people think of coffee, they think of early morning midafternoon, quiet ambiance, bring your laptop, put your headphones on and tune out the rest of the world while you get a book report or something done. Here we’re trying to make coffee a little more social and let people know that coffee can be enjoyed as a social staple alongside music” he

Innovation is what drives society forward. Albert Einstein once said that "Once you stop learning, you start dying”. I feel that this is the same for the world we live in. Steven Johnson argues that one of the best and innovative moments during the Enlightenment was the switch from the daily consumption of alcohol to the daily consumption of coffee. In the space of a coffee house, stimulated by caffeine, intellectuals could share ideas and innovate the future.

The first store of coffee club is opened in Brisbane in 1989. The Coffee Club has become Australia’s largest home-grown cafe group with over 400 stores throughout 8 countries. The Coffee Club is well-known for its famous all day breakfast and serves as a relaxed meeting place for over 40 million customers. The coffee club always promise good food, great service and excellent coffee that will make smile on customers face. The first part I am going to explain is the role and relationship of different actors of the coffee club.

A life without social interactions is not considered a healthy life. Everyone needs people that they can social with in their lives; family members, friends, colleagues etc… Each one of them holds a special part in their hearts. Coffee shops are a great environment to interact with people and meet new ones, and a lot can happen over a cup of coffee. The perfect cup of coffee for this writer is to be surrounded by three great individuals, Kevin Hart, Dalai Lama, and Oprah.

In the city of Des Moines, there are several small homegrown coffee shops that offer a unique experience. Java Joes, Zanzibar’s Coffee Adventure, Mars Café and Smokey Row, just to name a few have made contributions to the Des Moines coffee scene over the years. Whether it is being covered in local art like Zanzibar’s is. Offering live music performances and poetry readings from time to time like Mars and Java Joes. Or being the one stop shop and giving an oh-so-cozy atmosphere as Smokey Row does for Drake Students and community members alike, there is no one coffee shop that combines each of these experiences. This is, yet.

Sense of community is one of the main values that resonates with the Café, for it strives to build a welcoming and safe environment for people from all walks of life. The placement does not discriminate and wants everyone that enters to feel equal and apart of the community. Watching the individuals that were at the Café when I was there for my orientation, I noticed how everyone knew each other’s names, had intimate conversations with one another, and were genuinely nice to each person. It is almost like the Café has a magical door that strips each member of the community of all of their baggage, stereotypes, and labels. The placement also perpetuates values in respect for human diversity and social justice, for it allows for members of the community to receive equal treatment and

First, we plan to split the class up into four separate groups to engage in the World Café model. For this, there will be a total of four questions for the class to have a seven-minute discussion at each station. The questions are the following:

Though coffee houses throughout Europe have a self-explanatory function of meeting point, discussion area and recreational facility, this concept has only recently been explored in North America, and is gaining in popularity and social recognition as we speak, and is only expected to increase over the course of the next few years.

Within the Army organizations of today knowledge management plays a huge role in the dissemination of information to the unit and it’s soldiers. This is no different for the aviation unit in which I operate. This information can be found in FM 6-01.1, Knowledge Management Operations. It defines knowledge management as the process of enabling knowledge flow to enhance shared understanding, learning, and decision-making. But when the unit was surveyed about their understanding of knowledge management the results were surprising.

I can always look forward to starting my day off, with a steaming cup of coffee, I love that even if it 's a cold, dark, and gloomy day outside, a big cup of coffee can get me through the day. I could go on and on about my appreciation and fondness over the drink itself, but I won’t. However, I would like to share with you a remarkable phenomenon that I’ve come to notice, it is other people sharing this experience, this love for coffee, and they do it all across the globe in shops known as “cafes,” or “coffee shops.” And this is exactly what Howard Schultz (The CEO

Starbucks Corporation is an international coffee and coffeehouse chain based in Seattle, Washington, United States. Starbucks is the largest coffeehouse company in the world, with 16,120 stores in 49 countries, including around 11,000 in the United States, followed by nearly 1,000 in Canada and more than 800 in Japan. The company culture focuses on customers and what they have to say. And here Starbucks faced the challenge: how to shape conversations with customers, partners and employees from all over the world, and capture the best ideas. The company decided to take its customer oriented culture online - build an online community that would allow it to engage with customers in a

consumers to share ideas on anything relating to Starbucks. The social network let users see what