All Life Is Problem Solving

Joe Firestone’s Blog on Knowledge and Knowledge Management

All Life Is Problem Solving header image 4

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

August 8th, 2008 · Comments Off on The Second Theme: Clear Definitions of KM and KCE, and “Complexity Science”

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 to 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 […]

[Read more →]

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

Remarks on Truth and Theories of Evaluation

July 21st, 2008 · Comments Off on Remarks on Truth and Theories of Evaluation

First, I think that true and false are terms we should apply to linguistic networks rather than single statements. Networks are necessary, because single statements generally assume a good deal of background knowledge illuminating the meaning of those statements. If the background knowledge is expressed in language also, we have a network of statements, and […]

[Read more →]

Tags: Epistemology/Ontology/Value Theory · Knowledge Making · 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 […]

[Read more →]

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