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Favorite To mark the return of this blog after a short hiatus, here is another popular post from the past, first published 5 years ago. The knowledge management world is large and complex, with many different understandings of what the term means, and what it encompasses. Here is a
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Shared by Nick Milton December 8, 2017
Favorite One of the issues involved in developing the ISO standard for Knowledge Management has been the definition of the “White Space” KM occupies. After all, if Knowledge management is to add any value as a discipline, it must cover areas not already covered by other disciplines. This was the
Read More Shared by Nick Milton October 31, 2017
Favorite The concept of “Ba” in knowledge management is often assumed to represent a physical or virtual space. But what if it represents a time, rather than a space? New Office Chair, by Brendan C, on Flickr The term Ba was introduced, in the KM context, by professor Nonaka as
Read More Shared by Nick Milton October 12, 2017
Favorite Not all knowledge is information, not all infomation is knowledge. However some knowledge exists also as information, and therefore needs to be managed by both disciplines in parallel. This blog post is about the knowledge continuum, the relationship between knowledge and information, and how information management and knowledge management
Read More Shared by Nick Milton September 18, 2017
Favorite Two years ago I blogged an analysis of a list of KM definitions. Here is a fresh look at a new list. Wod Clud from the KMAus list The analysis of the previous list showed a few “definition clusters”, as well as a definitional split between those who define
Read More Shared by Nick Milton July 5, 2017
Favorite We tend to divide Knowledge Management into opposing categories. Sometimes this is useful, but often this dualism is illusory. Image from wikimedia commons Dualism is the idea that, for some particular domain, there are two fundamental kinds or categories of things or principles. It is an “either-or” mindset, which
Read More Shared by Nick Milton June 20, 2017
Favorite Most of us are familiar with the SECI model from Nonaka and Takeuchi, but sometimes forget that C stands for Combination, not Collection. Image from wikimedia commons The Nonaka and Takeuchi SECI model for knowledge creation is well known in the KM world, with its 4 components of Socialisation,
Read More Shared by Nick Milton June 1, 2017
Favorite Here are three perennial KM arguments. Do they matter? (this is a reprise of an original blog post from 5 years ago) Mockingbird argument, from wikimedia commons Over the 20 years that we have been doing knowledge management, there has been a number of recurrent arguments that appear regularly,
Read More Shared by Nick Milton May 31, 2017
Favorite If Knowledge is Justified True Belief, then what does “Justification” entail? A recent New Scientist article, and a BBC charity video, give us some pointers. BBC Comic Relief charity video including Ricky Gervais’ character “David Brent” The April 1, 2017 edition of New Scientist magazine has the theme of
Read More Shared by Nick Milton April 4, 2017
Favorite Peter Drucker introduced the term “Knowledge Worker” – but what exactly IS a Knowledge Worker? Image from Wikimedia Commons When Drucker introduced the term in 1959, in his book “Landmarks of Tomorrow”, he was primarily writing about people working in IT – the programmers, systems analysts, academics and researchers.
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