KM posts on Contentious

Amy has a pair of great posts here that deserve attention. The first article in here lists some great KM articles and posts. I haven’t gone through all of them, but some I have already read.

Her second post delves into the whole information⁄knowledge duality. Another great article.

The whole field of KM really does get a bad wrap sometimes. Yes, it has been over-hyped sometimes. Yes, there were some pretty bad KM consultants out there (there are also pretty bad whatever consultants out there). All that aside it really is important for companies to find ways for employees to gather, store, and share information so it can easily be turned into knowledge. Knowledge that could lead to the next breakthrough or solution to a crisis.

There are lots of tools out there. I won’t profess to know all of them, I think there are almost too many to keep track of. But what I do know, is that sharing information and turning it into knowledge is a powerful activity that more companies should be doing.

Top of the list: June 25, Das E-Business Weblog, Knowledge Management does not exist. Personal Knowledge Management does, by Martin Roell. He writes, “‘Knowledge’ is something personal and only something personal. Once you make it explicit, it’s no longer knowledge: It’s information. We can manage information well, we can build fancy databases and label them ‘Knowledge Management Systems’ but they remain Information Management Systems. And information by itself is completely meaningless.”

What Do We Know? The Great Info-Knowledge Debate

Despite the popularity of the buzzword knowledge management, there’s actually a fair amount of debate in the KM community over whether it’s actually possible to manage “knowledge.” In a way, this debate reminds me of Terry Jones’ brilliant observation about the War on Terror, “How do you wage war on an abstract noun?”

In order to decide whether knowledge can be managed, you must understand what knowledge is…

Various and Sundry Knowledge Management Stuff- Contentious Weblog

What Do We Know? The Great Info-Knowledge Debate- Contentious Weblog

List of good KM articles

Several great articles here including the thought provoking The Nonsense of Knowledge Management.

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The Information/Knowledge duality

A great post on KM. An important read.

Source link: http://blog.contentious.com/archives/000294.html

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