All Life Is Problem Solving

Every once in awhile someone in Knowledge Management will state the view that organizational knowledge is the set of beliefs on which there is an organizational consensus. This viewpoint fits with constructivist approaches to knowledge because, according to the constructivists, knowledge comprises the belief filters we humans create to interact with the world, and then […]

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In this post, I’ll provide a more detailed envisioning of the Information Clearinghouse, or, if you like, the external knowledge and information integration, function of a proposed Knowledge Accountability Office (KAO), established by Congress. In an earlier post, I listed the functions of the KAO as: 1) perform KM Research and Development, 2) coordinate information […]

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At lunch yesterday, just hours before the President’s speech to the Congress proposing the outlines for a reconstruction of the American economy enabled by Government action, a leading Republican prepared the way by providing some comic relief: “We’re advocating that Congress freeze all federal spending immediately,” said Rep. Mike Pence (R-Ind.), the chairman of the […]

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(Co-Authored with Steven A. Cavaleri) New solutions to problems are always inventions, however humble. They don’t become innovations however, until they’re communicated to people, and get used in practice. In an Open PSP organization, new ideas are communicated by interpersonal and electronic means in four categories of communication (or integration) activity: broadcasting, search and retrieving, […]

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(Co-Authored with Steven A. Cavaleri) We’ve now arrived at the question of how we can enhance processes of evaluating and selecting new ideas in such a way as to move the organization toward the Open PSP. When I discussed creating new ideas in earlier posts, I pointed to a range of measures as enablers of […]

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My friend Mark McElroy just released a new presentation outlining a straw man specification for a comprehensive triple bottom line sustainability index for organizations comprised of context-based metrics. The work discussed in the presentation is unique and very important, and I recommend that anyone interested in sustainability (which should be everyone in my view), take […]

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Since Karl Popper’s views on objective knowledge and scientific “logic” seem to be gaining a little traction in KM these days, I think it may be a good idea to offer a clear statement about his views on fallibilism and falsificationism, especially since I agree with them. Fallibilism is the idea that no knowledge claim, […]

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Today, I have a quickie comment on US politics. Ryan Lizza had a striking profile on Rahm Emanuel in the New Yorker, which among other things recorded Rahm’s reactions to some critics of the Administration’s efforts on the stimulus package. Lizza puts things this way: ““They have never worked the legislative process,” Emanuel said of […]

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(Co-Authored with Steven A. Cavaleri) Here are some examples of criteria that may be used for comparing alternative solutions (i.e. decision models) in a Comparative Decision Making (CDM) context. — Logical consistency (inconsistent decision models are invalid and must be reformulated) — Empirical fit (competing models fit current and past data to varying degrees) — […]

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Before moving on to discussing in more detail how a National KM Center would coordinate information availability about KM and knowledge processing, I’d like to take a little time to write about a long-standing issue in KM. The issue of definition. In Part One of this series, I defined KM as activity intended to enhance […]

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