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Entries from July 2008

Knowledge Sharing Is Not As Transparent As It Seems

July 15th, 2008 · Comments Off on Knowledge Sharing Is Not As Transparent As It Seems

I think that most, if not all, current knowledge sharing programs do not distinguish those knowledge claims that are just information, from those knowledge claims that are knowledge, because they don’t know how to do so. And I also think that the consequence of this is that most, if not all, current knowledge sharing programs, […]

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Tags: KM Techniques · Knowledge Integration · Knowledge Management

Knowledge Sharing and the World Bank

July 14th, 2008 · 2 Comments

IBM was not the first large organization to decide that “knowledge sharing” is an easier sell than “KM.” The World Bank preceded IBM in this move by more than a decade, long before the advent of Web 2.0 or Enterprise 2.0. The Bank decided to use”knowledge sharing” as the orienting idea in their knowledge-related program […]

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

“Knowledge Sharing:” IBM’s Change In Philosophy

July 14th, 2008 · Comments Off on “Knowledge Sharing:” IBM’s Change In Philosophy

IBM has placed Knowledge Sharing in the news again, by announcing that it has “philosophically repositioned” its Knowledge Management practice around Knowledge Sharing. According to IBM’s Chris Cooper, “Management suggests control: control of process and control of environment. The sharing tag is quite important to us.” Of course, “Management” suggests control, these days, only to […]

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Tags: KM 2.0 · KM Techniques · Knowledge Integration · Knowledge Management

OODA, the DEC, the KLC, and Recognition-Primed Decision Making

July 6th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Introduction In my two previous posts I’ve talked about the OODA loop framework and its relationships to the Decision Execution Cycle (DEC), Single- and Double-loop learning, and the Knowledge Life Cycle (KLC) frameworks. Here I want to discuss the relationship of Recognition Primed Decision Making (RPD), a primary type of Naturalistic Decision Making (NDM) to […]

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