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National Governmental Knowledge Management: KM, Adaptation, and Complexity: Part Six, A National KM Research Center

February 19th, 2009 · Comments Off on National Governmental Knowledge Management: KM, Adaptation, and Complexity: Part Six, A National KM Research Center

Last July I wrote two posts on National Governmental Knowledge Management. In the first, I made the case that there was a need to organize and implement formal KM in National Governments to see whether it can produce an ecology of rationality that will work to enhance knowledge processing, knowledge and adaptation throughout such Governments. […]

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Tags: Complexity · Epistemology/Ontology/Value Theory · Knowledge Integration · Knowledge Making · Knowledge Management · Politics

KM 2.0 and Knowledge Management: Part Five, More on Dave Snowden’s Take

August 14th, 2008 · Comments Off on KM 2.0 and Knowledge Management: Part Five, More on Dave Snowden’s Take

4) Another important point made by Dave in the podcast is that those looking to create a knowledge sharing culture are thinking about knowledge sharing from the wrong perspective. The problem is not to create such a culture, but rather to increase the connectivity of people, whereupon they will naturally share because the increased connectivity […]

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Tags: Complexity · Epistemology/Ontology/Value Theory · KM 2.0 · KM Software Tools · Knowledge Integration · Knowledge Making · Knowledge Management

KM 2.0 and Knowledge Management: Part Four, Dave Snowden, Complexity, and the Impact of Web 2.0

August 13th, 2008 · Comments Off on KM 2.0 and Knowledge Management: Part Four, Dave Snowden, Complexity, and the Impact of Web 2.0

The next major contribution to the KM 2.0 discussion comes in an interview of Dave Snowden by Jon Husband entitled “The Impact of Web 2.0 on Knowledge Work and Knowledge Management.” The interview was done on October 15, 2007, and then produced and distributed as a podcast. This podcast was followed by many reactions in […]

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Tags: Complexity · Epistemology/Ontology/Value Theory · KM 2.0 · KM Software Tools · Knowledge Integration · Knowledge Making · Knowledge Management · Personal KM

National Governmental Knowledge Management: KM, Adaptation, and Complexity: Part One

July 23rd, 2008 · 6 Comments

National Governmental Knowledge Management The primary focus of Knowledge Management, thus far, has been on organizations, communities, and teams, with some emphasis on Personal Knowledge Management (PKM), and “Knowledge Cities.” Knowledge Management in Government has primarily continued the organizational focus of most work in the field. It is agency-based and project-focused, and has had little […]

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Tags: Complexity · KM Techniques · Knowledge Integration · Knowledge Making · Knowledge Management

On Cynefin as a Sensemaking Framework: Part One

May 29th, 2008 · Comments Off on On Cynefin as a Sensemaking Framework: Part One

  In earlier posts, I discussed Dave Snowden’s Cynefin framework from the viewpoint of systems classification, offered an alternative to it, and then offered some critical comments. I did this because (a) Dave sometimes used the term “system” in describing one or another Cynefin “domain” and (b) a lot of the recent discussion on Cynefin […]

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Tags: Complexity · Epistemology/Ontology/Value Theory · KM Software Tools · Knowledge Making · Knowledge Management

Is Knowledge Paradoxical?

April 19th, 2008 · 1 Comment

This week Dave Snowden discussed my views in two of his blog entries. My last blog entry, “Is There A Correct Interpretation of Hamlet?” answered his first entry. This blog installment and at least one, perhaps two, following it will begin to answer his second entitled: “Wave-particle duality.” I must admit I had a funny […]

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Tags: Complexity · Epistemology/Ontology/Value Theory · Knowledge Making · Knowledge Management