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Entries Tagged as 'KM Methodology'

What Is A Knowledge Processing Software Application?

September 6th, 2008 · Comments Off on What Is A Knowledge Processing Software Application?

Software vendors feel very free to claim that theirs is a KM Software application. At the height of KM’s popularity, in 1998, I’ve even had the experience of running across a document copying vendor who claimed that theirs was a KM Software application. Well, it’s a software vendor’s job to make claims that may sell […]

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Tags: KM 2.0 · KM Methodology · 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 · Comments Off on Why Don’t We Write More About How We Ought to Evaluate Knowledge Claims?

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 Metrics?

August 31st, 2008 · 8 Comments

From the beginning of KM there’s been remarkably little focus on metrics and measurement. In particular, there’s been remarkably little focus on metrics of KM impact. This lack of focus is in line with a certain anti-scientific orientation that has appeared in KM associated with the philosophies of post-modernism and social constructivism. It is also […]

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Tags: KM 2.0 · KM Methodology · KM Techniques · Knowledge Making · Knowledge Management

Why No Impact Modeling?

August 23rd, 2008 · 2 Comments

I’ve been busier than usual for the past week and will be even busier for another week; so I have to postpone further work on my KM 2.0 series for awhile in favor of some posts that require less effort. This one will pose a question. Why don’t we see much impact modeling in Knowledge […]

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