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KM 2.0 and Knowledge Management: Part Fourteen

September 20th, 2008 · No Comments

This discussion of John Tropea’s two blog entries of March 17th and 18th 2008, has turned into a series within a series. I guess that’s a measure of what happens in this blog medium. That is, if you feel like saying more about something, there’s always another blog tomorrow. No one can tell you that […]

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

Why Don’t We Write More About How We Ought to Evaluate Knowledge Claims?

September 1st, 2008 · No Comments

There’s remarkably little attention given to the discussion of how we ought to evaluate knowledge claims in spite of the fact that this issue is rather central to both knowledge processing and KM. I’ve argued for the importance of KCE in the past. Here I want to illustrate its importance with a critical take on […]

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Tags: Epistemology/Ontology/Value Theory · KM Methodology · Knowledge Making · Knowledge Management

Why Don’t We Write Much About KM Policies?

August 25th, 2008 · No Comments

In my last post, I asked why we in KM don’t write much about KM strategies. Here I ask the same question with respect to policies. Policies and strategies are not the same. A high-level plan for achieving strategic goals and objectives, and ultimately a strategic vision may include a number of policies. On the […]

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

KM 2.0 and Knowledge Management: Part Five

August 14th, 2008 · No Comments

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

The Second Theme: Clear Definitions of KM and KCE, and “Complexity Science”

August 8th, 2008 · No Comments

My last post commented on Dave Snowden’s primary argument against a National KM Center, discussed in “Emperor’s Chess Board: Pt. 1” and “The Empire Repeats.” In addition this argument however, in “The Empire Repeats,” he wrote of two themes that emerged in the actkm discussion on National KM Centers and “connecting the dots.” The first […]

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

On Cynefin as a Sensemaking Framework: Part Three

May 29th, 2008 · No Comments

 
There are three interesting questions we’d like to take up in this part.
– First, assuming that the approach taken by Cynefin, requiring sensemaking through first selecting the context type one is dealing with is appropriate, is the Cynefin framework complete enough as it stands or does it fail to identify important types of decision […]

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

On Cynefin as a Sensemaking Framework: Part One

May 29th, 2008 · No Comments

 
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 in […]

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

Has KM Been Done? Part 1: Conceptual Drift in KM

April 16th, 2008 · 1 Comment

 

Rain, Steam, and Speed (J. W. M. Turner, 1844)

In March of 2004, David Pollard served as the Star Moderator in the Association of Knowledge Work’s (AOK) Star Series. Many subjects were covered during the very fruitful exchanges of Dave’s tenure. One of my posts (message 1484) was a commentary on one of Dave’s blogs called […]

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Tags: Complexity · KM 2.0 · KM Software Tools · KM Techniques · Knowledge Integration · Knowledge Making · Knowledge Management

Organizational Problem Solving

April 15th, 2008 · 1 Comment

In the opening blog of “All Life is Problem Solving,” I gave a general account of how problem solving occurs in living things including humans. But are organizations living systems, or, at least, are they like living systems in their problem solving patterns? How does organizational problem solving happen?
In seeking an answer to that question, […]

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