I enjoyed this article on knowledge from the World Bank.
I received it from
Dr. Donat Agosti
Science Consultant
Research Associate,
American Museum of Natural History
and Naturmuseum der Burgergemeinde Bern
So thanks, Dr Agosti
You can read the article here by Joseph E. Stiglitz
http://www.worldbank.org/knowledge/chiefecon/articles/undpk2/index.htm
KNOWLEDGE AS A GLOBAL PUBLIC GOOD
Joseph E. Stiglitz
Senior Vice President and Chief Economist
The World Bank
Ron Young
More at:
http://www.knowledge-management-online.com/
Wednesday, June 13, 2007
Tuesday, June 12, 2007
Knowledge Management and the pasta machine
I was reminded today of the story of the pasta machine
and its relevance to tools to support KM.
A couple were given a pasta machine for a xmas present.
Because it was given to them, and not in a situation of real
need, at that time, they were very thankful and put it into a
kitchen cupboard. There it remained for three years, unused.
But if the couple had a real need or desire to make pasta, they
would have bought a pasta machine and immediately started
to use it properly.
It's the same with technology tools that are thrust upon us.
If there isn't a proper need, and proper understanding for how
the technology can really help us work better, it will not be used
correctly.
I hear people who say, 'Oh yes I tried blogging and wikis when they
first appeared, but I don't use them now'. And I think to myself,
do they really understand what these new tools can do for us,
as knowledge workers, or are they like the couple with the
xmas pasta machine present?
Ron Young
More information at:
www.knowledge-management-online.com
and its relevance to tools to support KM.
A couple were given a pasta machine for a xmas present.
Because it was given to them, and not in a situation of real
need, at that time, they were very thankful and put it into a
kitchen cupboard. There it remained for three years, unused.
But if the couple had a real need or desire to make pasta, they
would have bought a pasta machine and immediately started
to use it properly.
It's the same with technology tools that are thrust upon us.
If there isn't a proper need, and proper understanding for how
the technology can really help us work better, it will not be used
correctly.
I hear people who say, 'Oh yes I tried blogging and wikis when they
first appeared, but I don't use them now'. And I think to myself,
do they really understand what these new tools can do for us,
as knowledge workers, or are they like the couple with the
xmas pasta machine present?
Ron Young
More information at:
www.knowledge-management-online.com
Monday, June 11, 2007
KM and a WebOS as the ultimate personal mashup
I have highly recommended before, the work of Nova Spivak and his article on Web 3.0 and the Semantic Web.
He also talks about a Web Operating System replacing much of the PC OS and/or acting as a hybrid OS . Makes great sense to me.
In a personal knowledge management context, I am interested in, to quote Nova "the WebOS as the ultimate personal mashup!" RDF, SPARQL, OWL and the Semantic web will become more prominent to support such a personal platform. I am interested in how personal information management tools could develop into personal knowledge management tools through such Web 3.0 developments.
Ron Young
You can read more from Nova Spivak at:
http://novaspivack.typepad.com/
For more information go to:
www.knowledge-management-online.com
Tuesday, June 05, 2007
Most popular KM website searches
In an analysis of our website visitors over the past
18 months, the two most popular searches, by far
were, and continue to be:
Q1 What's the difference between information and knowledge?
Q2 Who, What, Why, Where, When, How?
Interestingly, they are not confined at all to a
particular area, but come from all parts of the world.
Furthermore, they not only come from schools and
universities and education sector, as you would expect,
but from a wide cross section of industry, public and
private.
So, clearly, there is a healthy appetite for understanding
and applying better knowledge!
More at:
www.knowledge-management-online.com
18 months, the two most popular searches, by far
were, and continue to be:
Q1 What's the difference between information and knowledge?
Q2 Who, What, Why, Where, When, How?
Interestingly, they are not confined at all to a
particular area, but come from all parts of the world.
Furthermore, they not only come from schools and
universities and education sector, as you would expect,
but from a wide cross section of industry, public and
private.
So, clearly, there is a healthy appetite for understanding
and applying better knowledge!
More at:
www.knowledge-management-online.com
Monday, June 04, 2007
Open Source KM Consulting Methodology and Tools Version 1 is now available
Open Source KM Consulting Methodology and Tools
Version 1 is now available to members for downloading.
So become a member today.
Immediately download Open Source KM Consulting
Methodology and Tools Version 1.
Start reading, learning, applying and helping us all
to further develop and improve towards Version 2.
Let's harness the global knowledge and experiences
of members around the world, and demonstrate
rapid new knowledge creation, for the good of the
whole KM community.
Ron Young
More at:
www.knowledge-management-online.com
Version 1 is now available to members for downloading.
So become a member today.
Immediately download Open Source KM Consulting
Methodology and Tools Version 1.
Start reading, learning, applying and helping us all
to further develop and improve towards Version 2.
Let's harness the global knowledge and experiences
of members around the world, and demonstrate
rapid new knowledge creation, for the good of the
whole KM community.
Ron Young
More at:
www.knowledge-management-online.com
Tuesday, May 29, 2007
Exponential Knowledge for Web 2.0
Web 2.0 has certainly helped us move even faster
from incremental and episodic knowledge creation
to continuous knowledge creation and sharing, at
an exponential rate!
People, all around the world, are creating
inspirational videos, commenting and sharing
knowledge in video and blogs, creating new knowledge
in radically new ways with wiki-editing tools and
hybrids, and tagging, organising and distributing
information and knowledge in all sorts of clever ways.
It feels like this process of creating, sharing and learning
is now happening so fast around the world, that it has
become 'beyond human' comprehension.
The richer and increasingly varied inter-connections,
and increased collaboration, with people we don't even know
but who we increasingly depend on, to make it all happen,
is quite extraordinary.
As a KM consultant, I am particularly interested in rich
and complex informational associations and connections that,
even when made explicit on the web, are increasingly
resembling knowledge forms and representations of the brain.
I believe that progress in this area, for Web 3.0 will be staggering
and exponential over the next 5 years.
Ron Young
More at :
www.knowledge-management-online.com
from incremental and episodic knowledge creation
to continuous knowledge creation and sharing, at
an exponential rate!
People, all around the world, are creating
inspirational videos, commenting and sharing
knowledge in video and blogs, creating new knowledge
in radically new ways with wiki-editing tools and
hybrids, and tagging, organising and distributing
information and knowledge in all sorts of clever ways.
It feels like this process of creating, sharing and learning
is now happening so fast around the world, that it has
become 'beyond human' comprehension.
The richer and increasingly varied inter-connections,
and increased collaboration, with people we don't even know
but who we increasingly depend on, to make it all happen,
is quite extraordinary.
As a KM consultant, I am particularly interested in rich
and complex informational associations and connections that,
even when made explicit on the web, are increasingly
resembling knowledge forms and representations of the brain.
I believe that progress in this area, for Web 3.0 will be staggering
and exponential over the next 5 years.
Ron Young
More at :
www.knowledge-management-online.com
Monday, May 14, 2007
Encyclopedia of Life - The world's knowledge about plants and animals
It was so exciting to read in the Daily Telegraph,
Thursday 10th May, 2007, about the launch of
the Encyclopedia of Life - The whole story of life
on Earth to go online at:
http://www.eol.org
The aim is to list 1.8m known species and animals
and other forms of life, and the project could take
another 10 years to complete. So far, £30 million
has been pledged in grants from charitable foundations
and academic institutions to complete it. The design
looks very good.
From a knowledge management perspective, I am
very interested in the collaborative effort to achieve this.
No doubt, some inspiration has come from the wikipedia
initiative to demonstrate radically new ways to
collectively create new knowledge.
The Encyclopedia of Life website says:
"Comprehensive, collaborative, ever-growing, and
personalized, the Encyclopedia of Life is an ecosystem
of websites that makes all key information about life
on Earth accessible to anyone, anywhere in the world. "
I do particularly like the reference to an 'ecosystem of
websites'. I think that there is much we can do to further
develop more natural knowledge ecologies. It's also
interesting to see that the information and knowledge
will be with contributions from scientists and amateurs
alike. So I imagine an academic 'peer review' process
acting together with 'wikipedia like' capturing of new
learnings, ideas and insights?
Dr Richard Lane, the Natural History Museum's director
of science said:
" It is a monumental project that will open up the world's
knowledge about plants and animals we share the planet
with".
I am sure that the Encyclopedia of Life is the start of an
exciting trend in global knowledge management initiatives
for the good of all on Planet Earth.
Ron Young
More at:
http://www.knowledge-management-online.com
Thursday 10th May, 2007, about the launch of
the Encyclopedia of Life - The whole story of life
on Earth to go online at:
http://www.eol.org
The aim is to list 1.8m known species and animals
and other forms of life, and the project could take
another 10 years to complete. So far, £30 million
has been pledged in grants from charitable foundations
and academic institutions to complete it. The design
looks very good.
From a knowledge management perspective, I am
very interested in the collaborative effort to achieve this.
No doubt, some inspiration has come from the wikipedia
initiative to demonstrate radically new ways to
collectively create new knowledge.
The Encyclopedia of Life website says:
"Comprehensive, collaborative, ever-growing, and
personalized, the Encyclopedia of Life is an ecosystem
of websites that makes all key information about life
on Earth accessible to anyone, anywhere in the world. "
I do particularly like the reference to an 'ecosystem of
websites'. I think that there is much we can do to further
develop more natural knowledge ecologies. It's also
interesting to see that the information and knowledge
will be with contributions from scientists and amateurs
alike. So I imagine an academic 'peer review' process
acting together with 'wikipedia like' capturing of new
learnings, ideas and insights?
Dr Richard Lane, the Natural History Museum's director
of science said:
" It is a monumental project that will open up the world's
knowledge about plants and animals we share the planet
with".
I am sure that the Encyclopedia of Life is the start of an
exciting trend in global knowledge management initiatives
for the good of all on Planet Earth.
Ron Young
More at:
http://www.knowledge-management-online.com
Thursday, May 03, 2007
India and/or China lead Knowledge Management
Once again, Europe and USA have become complacent.
Last time it was Quality management. This time it is
Knowledge Management.
I remember Duran saying that although he developed his ideas
around Quality management in the USA, he could never get
people to truly see what he was trying to do. They were too
busy, couldn't easily see the ROI and were generally cynical
of anything new.
They were not hungry enough for new innovative ideas and
methods.
Eventually, the Japanese embraced Quality Management the
way he envisaged, and the rest is history. We learned how to
do QM properly from the Japanese.
I see the same with Knowledge Management.
The West has still not got it entirely.
We are still playing around the edges of the field.
Also, we are too busy, cannot immediately see the ROI
and are, also, generally cynical about change.
I predict that India will get it fully. I predict China will get it
fully. Why? Because they have deep and rich cultures that
have always highly valued knowledge. Because they are
incredibly intelligent, talented and innovative in this area.
Because they know this change has to happen, and they want
it. The Far East will continue to provide innovative
technologies to support innovative knowledge creation and
sharing.
Then, I expect that Europe and USA, at least, will all learn from
India and China how to do KM properly.
One example: Take a look at the Vedas and Upanishads,
the great spiritual heritage of India.
The first books of knowledge of several thousand years ago.
Then you will see that they will undoubtedly understand
what 21st Century knowledge management should be,
if they don't already!
Ron Young
More at:
www.knowledge-management-online.com
Last time it was Quality management. This time it is
Knowledge Management.
I remember Duran saying that although he developed his ideas
around Quality management in the USA, he could never get
people to truly see what he was trying to do. They were too
busy, couldn't easily see the ROI and were generally cynical
of anything new.
They were not hungry enough for new innovative ideas and
methods.
Eventually, the Japanese embraced Quality Management the
way he envisaged, and the rest is history. We learned how to
do QM properly from the Japanese.
I see the same with Knowledge Management.
The West has still not got it entirely.
We are still playing around the edges of the field.
Also, we are too busy, cannot immediately see the ROI
and are, also, generally cynical about change.
I predict that India will get it fully. I predict China will get it
fully. Why? Because they have deep and rich cultures that
have always highly valued knowledge. Because they are
incredibly intelligent, talented and innovative in this area.
Because they know this change has to happen, and they want
it. The Far East will continue to provide innovative
technologies to support innovative knowledge creation and
sharing.
Then, I expect that Europe and USA, at least, will all learn from
India and China how to do KM properly.
One example: Take a look at the Vedas and Upanishads,
the great spiritual heritage of India.
The first books of knowledge of several thousand years ago.
Then you will see that they will undoubtedly understand
what 21st Century knowledge management should be,
if they don't already!
Ron Young
More at:
www.knowledge-management-online.com
Wednesday, April 25, 2007
Knowledge Asset Management on Wikipedia
I have started a new topic on wikipedia to define and
expand the management discipline of Knowledge Asset
Management, that I have been actively engaged in
since 1996.
I would welcome like-minded km practitioners to
contribute to this topic.
Knowledge Asset Management is a management discipline
that takes its roots from both Asset Management and
Knowledge Management.
Knowledge Asset Management strives to enable the
application of an inclusive, yet standard method of
measuring, reporting and auditing critical and common
knowledge assets within Industry sectors, and across
Industry sectors, as a whole.
It goes beyond the Process-centred and Product-centred
approaches of recent years. It focuses on the identification,
development, application, measurement and reporting of
critical and strategic knowledge assets in an organization
or community, that make a significant difference to
organizational performance and decision making.
I am increasingly working with organizations that seek to
measure and report (and even start auditing) their
key knowledge assets.
Maybe knowledge asset auditing is not as far away as we
first thought?
Ron Young
More at:
www.knowledge-management-online.com
expand the management discipline of Knowledge Asset
Management, that I have been actively engaged in
since 1996.
I would welcome like-minded km practitioners to
contribute to this topic.
Knowledge Asset Management is a management discipline
that takes its roots from both Asset Management and
Knowledge Management.
Knowledge Asset Management strives to enable the
application of an inclusive, yet standard method of
measuring, reporting and auditing critical and common
knowledge assets within Industry sectors, and across
Industry sectors, as a whole.
It goes beyond the Process-centred and Product-centred
approaches of recent years. It focuses on the identification,
development, application, measurement and reporting of
critical and strategic knowledge assets in an organization
or community, that make a significant difference to
organizational performance and decision making.
I am increasingly working with organizations that seek to
measure and report (and even start auditing) their
key knowledge assets.
Maybe knowledge asset auditing is not as far away as we
first thought?
Ron Young
More at:
www.knowledge-management-online.com
Tuesday, April 24, 2007
Knowledge Management and the 8 United Nations Millennium Development goals
I have two sets of websites and blogs that I normally keep
seperate. My professional knowledge management development
and practices and my spiritual development and practices.
Sometimes I find it difficult to know which blogs to choose.
Maybe I should just combine them.
This is one, today.
Like an increasing number of people in this world, especially
those working with global technologies, I can understand and
experience, in my daily work, a strong sense of Oneness,
interconnectedness and interdependence with all.
I fully respect all religions, spiritual traditions, beliefs and
non-beliefs, and I think Oneness is common to them all.
In fact, if you work with global connectivity, communications,
collaborative workgroups, learning, creating, sharing
and applying knowledge globally, you cannot help but think
this way, naturally.
Recently, in working with UN agencies and their need for better
global knowledge management, I became much more aware of
the 8 United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
From both a global knowledge management perspective, and
from a spiritual perspective, I realised that if we all had a
better perspective and understanding of Oneness on this
planet, it would have a major, and immediate, effect on
achieving these MDGs.
In this new way of thinking there would be an immediate
impact on global ethics.
This would immediately impact world terrorism, general
violence and all forms of crime.
I believe that there would be an immediate impact on
extreme poverty and hunger, primary education, gender
equality, child mortality, maternal health, HIV/AIDS,
and other diseases, environmental sustainability and
global development partnerships.
So I decided I would express these feelings to Ban Ki-moon,
Secretary-General of the United Nations.
Knowledge management has greatly accelerated my sense
and experience of Oneness over the years, so I blog it here.
I have met a few km bloggers that have shared this view with
me also. I would greatly appreciate hearing from anybody else
who shares these views.
If you are interested in my letter to the UN on Oneness, you
can read it on the home page of:
www.in-love-with-wisdom.com
Ron Young
More at:
www.knowledge-management-online.com
seperate. My professional knowledge management development
and practices and my spiritual development and practices.
Sometimes I find it difficult to know which blogs to choose.
Maybe I should just combine them.
This is one, today.
Like an increasing number of people in this world, especially
those working with global technologies, I can understand and
experience, in my daily work, a strong sense of Oneness,
interconnectedness and interdependence with all.
I fully respect all religions, spiritual traditions, beliefs and
non-beliefs, and I think Oneness is common to them all.
In fact, if you work with global connectivity, communications,
collaborative workgroups, learning, creating, sharing
and applying knowledge globally, you cannot help but think
this way, naturally.
Recently, in working with UN agencies and their need for better
global knowledge management, I became much more aware of
the 8 United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
From both a global knowledge management perspective, and
from a spiritual perspective, I realised that if we all had a
better perspective and understanding of Oneness on this
planet, it would have a major, and immediate, effect on
achieving these MDGs.
In this new way of thinking there would be an immediate
impact on global ethics.
This would immediately impact world terrorism, general
violence and all forms of crime.
I believe that there would be an immediate impact on
extreme poverty and hunger, primary education, gender
equality, child mortality, maternal health, HIV/AIDS,
and other diseases, environmental sustainability and
global development partnerships.
So I decided I would express these feelings to Ban Ki-moon,
Secretary-General of the United Nations.
Knowledge management has greatly accelerated my sense
and experience of Oneness over the years, so I blog it here.
I have met a few km bloggers that have shared this view with
me also. I would greatly appreciate hearing from anybody else
who shares these views.
If you are interested in my letter to the UN on Oneness, you
can read it on the home page of:
www.in-love-with-wisdom.com
Ron Young
More at:
www.knowledge-management-online.com
Monday, April 23, 2007
Discover What You Know
Well, being a Lotus Notes/ IBM fan since the early 90's, I just had to include this one.
Ron Young
Tuesday, April 17, 2007
Knowledge Ecologies
In preparation for a meeting on conserving global ecosystems,
from a knowledge management perspective, it occurred to me
that
a key component of a thriving and sustainable ecosystem,
or any type of global ecology, has to be the underpinning of a
global knowledge ecology to support and ensure wiser global
policies and decisions are made
To my mind, if an ecology is made up from a biodiversity of
inter-connected species, of minerals, water, micro-organisms,
insects, plants, animals, humans etc, all naturally inter-dependant,
then a knowledge ecology might be a diversity of inter-connected
technologies, processes, strategies, tools, methods and practices,
individuals, teams, organisations and communities?
Ron Young
More information at:
www.knowledge-management-online.com
from a knowledge management perspective, it occurred to me
that
a key component of a thriving and sustainable ecosystem,
or any type of global ecology, has to be the underpinning of a
global knowledge ecology to support and ensure wiser global
policies and decisions are made
To my mind, if an ecology is made up from a biodiversity of
inter-connected species, of minerals, water, micro-organisms,
insects, plants, animals, humans etc, all naturally inter-dependant,
then a knowledge ecology might be a diversity of inter-connected
technologies, processes, strategies, tools, methods and practices,
individuals, teams, organisations and communities?
Ron Young
More information at:
www.knowledge-management-online.com
Monday, April 16, 2007
Global Knowledge Management and its contribution to global biodiversity and conservation
I shall be attending a workshop in Switzerland this week that
will be examining the state of the art and the developments with
open source and knowledge management standards for global
biodiversity conservation.
If anybody has any experience or useful links in this area,
I would be most grateful to hear from you.
Ron Young
More at:
www.knowledge-management-online.com
will be examining the state of the art and the developments with
open source and knowledge management standards for global
biodiversity conservation.
If anybody has any experience or useful links in this area,
I would be most grateful to hear from you.
Ron Young
More at:
www.knowledge-management-online.com
Thursday, March 29, 2007
Knowledge values and Wise principles
I am doing quite a bit of work around effective decision making
and its link to knowledge management.
So I am back talking about wisdom again, as I had the following
insight to share:
We act, and make choices and decisions, based on our underlying
values and beliefs. If they are good and right values and/or beliefs,
we should be making good decisions. If they are wrong values
and/or beliefs, then we may be making bad decisions. So, we might
also say that the decision is based on the quality of the knowledge
that supports the values and beliefs.
No rocket science here!
If we are able to act, and make choices and decisions, based on
underlying principles, that have stood the test of time, and are
globally acceptable (Wisdom), then we should be making the
most effective decisions - wise decisions. I think?
As the most relevant and contextual knowledge and wisdom,
required to make a decision, is best found in communities and
teams, as opposed to codified knowledgebases, (apart from
very specific domain knowledge), we need to find better ways
to embed the decision making process into the community
and team work practices.
This may sound obvious, and easily understood intellectually,
but, in my experience, it is not that well developed, if at all,
in practice?
I am looking for anything that can improve the decision making
process, to making 'wiser decisions', more often, within the
organisation?
Ron Young
More information at:
www.knowledge-management-online.com
and its link to knowledge management.
So I am back talking about wisdom again, as I had the following
insight to share:
We act, and make choices and decisions, based on our underlying
values and beliefs. If they are good and right values and/or beliefs,
we should be making good decisions. If they are wrong values
and/or beliefs, then we may be making bad decisions. So, we might
also say that the decision is based on the quality of the knowledge
that supports the values and beliefs.
No rocket science here!
If we are able to act, and make choices and decisions, based on
underlying principles, that have stood the test of time, and are
globally acceptable (Wisdom), then we should be making the
most effective decisions - wise decisions. I think?
As the most relevant and contextual knowledge and wisdom,
required to make a decision, is best found in communities and
teams, as opposed to codified knowledgebases, (apart from
very specific domain knowledge), we need to find better ways
to embed the decision making process into the community
and team work practices.
This may sound obvious, and easily understood intellectually,
but, in my experience, it is not that well developed, if at all,
in practice?
I am looking for anything that can improve the decision making
process, to making 'wiser decisions', more often, within the
organisation?
Ron Young
More information at:
www.knowledge-management-online.com
Monday, March 26, 2007
KM, as a discipline, has been disrupted by distruptive technologies
It was Professor Charles Handy who first introduced me to the idea
of disruptive technologies, and the impact they have, in his best
selling book 'The Age of Unreason' in 1989.
It was Intel that reinforced the disruptive power of rapidly emerging
technologies in Business, in the mid 1990's, when they talked about
significantly disruptive inflexion points.
Today, I put to you, the new technologies that we happily refer to as
Web 2.0, have totally disrupted Knowledge Management, as a
discipline for practitioners.
We started, in the 1990's, by developing methodologies and processes that
would enable us to better capture, store, share, amplify, create and
apply, new knowledge, for individuals, teams, organisations and
communities. Very good work at the time.
But today wiki's enable a radically new way to collectively create new
knowledge, and blogs enable a radically new way to capture, store
and share new learnings and insights, and YouTube, Flickr, Myspace
etc are all enabling richer and more collaborative communities,
although somewhat disparate at the moment .
I realise, as written in an earlier blog of mine, that Web 2.0
technologies do not address the higher stages of the KM process,
but I am confident that the promised Web 3.0 tools, the Semantic Web
developments, automated meaning and metadata technologies
will address this stage soon.
So, I put it to you that Knowledge Management, as a practitioner
discipline, has been significantly disrupted by disruptive
technologies.
Having said that, I believe, therefore, that the need for a good
Knowledge management strategy, of which technology is a key
part, is even more important.
Ron Young
More at:
www.knowledge-management-online.com
of disruptive technologies, and the impact they have, in his best
selling book 'The Age of Unreason' in 1989.
It was Intel that reinforced the disruptive power of rapidly emerging
technologies in Business, in the mid 1990's, when they talked about
significantly disruptive inflexion points.
Today, I put to you, the new technologies that we happily refer to as
Web 2.0, have totally disrupted Knowledge Management, as a
discipline for practitioners.
We started, in the 1990's, by developing methodologies and processes that
would enable us to better capture, store, share, amplify, create and
apply, new knowledge, for individuals, teams, organisations and
communities. Very good work at the time.
But today wiki's enable a radically new way to collectively create new
knowledge, and blogs enable a radically new way to capture, store
and share new learnings and insights, and YouTube, Flickr, Myspace
etc are all enabling richer and more collaborative communities,
although somewhat disparate at the moment .
I realise, as written in an earlier blog of mine, that Web 2.0
technologies do not address the higher stages of the KM process,
but I am confident that the promised Web 3.0 tools, the Semantic Web
developments, automated meaning and metadata technologies
will address this stage soon.
So, I put it to you that Knowledge Management, as a practitioner
discipline, has been significantly disrupted by disruptive
technologies.
Having said that, I believe, therefore, that the need for a good
Knowledge management strategy, of which technology is a key
part, is even more important.
Ron Young
More at:
www.knowledge-management-online.com
Friday, March 23, 2007
KM and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Today, whilst researching UN initiatives to highlight the importance
of biodiversity for the well being of the planet, I came across several
organisations who are striving to improve open acces to data,
information and knowledge, relating to biodiversity conservation,
globally.
That's simply great!
Conservation Commons seems to be leading in this area, and within
their 'Principles of knowledge sharing' they remind us of Article 19
of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights:
"that every individual has the right to freedom of opinion and expression,
that this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference
and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any
media and regardless of frontiers"
Keep blogging!
More information at:
www.knowledge-management-online.com
of biodiversity for the well being of the planet, I came across several
organisations who are striving to improve open acces to data,
information and knowledge, relating to biodiversity conservation,
globally.
That's simply great!
Conservation Commons seems to be leading in this area, and within
their 'Principles of knowledge sharing' they remind us of Article 19
of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights:
"that every individual has the right to freedom of opinion and expression,
that this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference
and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any
media and regardless of frontiers"
Keep blogging!
More information at:
www.knowledge-management-online.com
Monday, March 19, 2007
Open Source Knowledge Management - beta membership
I am glad to say that we are now starting to get interest from around the world to registering for the free beta programme. We hope to be able to start soon.
If you are interested in the beta open source programme for KM education, methodologies, processes, tools and techniques, read the home page and register at
www.knowledge-management-online.com
The rationale for 'Open Source Knowledge Management' is very simple: When KM practitioners around the world can read, edit and add, redistribute, and modify the source KM education and KM methodologies, processes, tools and techniques, based on their experiences, the education and methodology will rapidly evolve.
People around the world will improve it at an extraordinary speed compared to the speed of development of proprietary methodologies.
We fundamentally believe and endorse the open source community who have learned that this rapid and collaborative 'community created' evolutionary process produces better knowledge creation and knowledge transfer than the traditional closed model.
Open Source is the only way to create, transfer and apply the best knowledge.
Its an idea who's time has arrived!
We believe that Open Source KM requires both an open and free collaboration and sharing, and a core group of competent KM practitioners to challenge and review through discussion and dialogue.
But first of all, please register your interest by enrolling in our free 'beta' programme. There is no obligation but you are invited to participate as much as you wish.
Joining our free 'beta' programme will entitle you to download free documents from our password protected site.
For more information:
www.knowledge-management-online.com
If you are interested in the beta open source programme for KM education, methodologies, processes, tools and techniques, read the home page and register at
www.knowledge-management-online.com
The rationale for 'Open Source Knowledge Management' is very simple: When KM practitioners around the world can read, edit and add, redistribute, and modify the source KM education and KM methodologies, processes, tools and techniques, based on their experiences, the education and methodology will rapidly evolve.
People around the world will improve it at an extraordinary speed compared to the speed of development of proprietary methodologies.
We fundamentally believe and endorse the open source community who have learned that this rapid and collaborative 'community created' evolutionary process produces better knowledge creation and knowledge transfer than the traditional closed model.
Open Source is the only way to create, transfer and apply the best knowledge.
Its an idea who's time has arrived!
We believe that Open Source KM requires both an open and free collaboration and sharing, and a core group of competent KM practitioners to challenge and review through discussion and dialogue.
But first of all, please register your interest by enrolling in our free 'beta' programme. There is no obligation but you are invited to participate as much as you wish.
Joining our free 'beta' programme will entitle you to download free documents from our password protected site.
For more information:
www.knowledge-management-online.com
Saturday, March 17, 2007
Knowledge Management and Wisdom
I seem to be going on quite a bit about the difference between knowledge
and wisdom, in my recent blogs.
I think this is because I see, much better now, how important wisdom
is, and always will be, to business and to life.
Whereas we now have robust processes and knowledge networks for
capturing new learnings, ideas and insights, sharing them, amplifying
them and creating new knowledge, we don't seem to have developed anything
like the same attention to how wisdom is created and applied.
We talk about the wisdom of children, in their natural, creative and blissful ignorance.
We talk about the wisdom of elders, through learning and experiences and time.
We talk about the wisdom of teams.
So I see wisdom displayed as both naturally spontaneous and creative, and as a
result of some processes.
I think we need to talk a lot more about business wisdom, how to identify it,
how we might better develop and apply it.
A good friend and work colleague of mine is doing a PhD in Knowledge
Management. Naturally, for any higher degree, he has to do a critical review
of the literature first, before identifying new knowledge areas with his Professor.
Imagine, within our education systems, students having to do a critical review
of the timeless wisdom that has been handed down over thousands of years
before embarking on new knowledge creation. Imagine 'sharing timeless
wisdom'as a more common procedure than it is in organizations today.
But maybe I am again too naive and totally wrong here?
Still its a nice thought on a sunny saturday morning :-)
More at:
www.knowledge-management-online.com
and wisdom, in my recent blogs.
I think this is because I see, much better now, how important wisdom
is, and always will be, to business and to life.
Whereas we now have robust processes and knowledge networks for
capturing new learnings, ideas and insights, sharing them, amplifying
them and creating new knowledge, we don't seem to have developed anything
like the same attention to how wisdom is created and applied.
We talk about the wisdom of children, in their natural, creative and blissful ignorance.
We talk about the wisdom of elders, through learning and experiences and time.
We talk about the wisdom of teams.
So I see wisdom displayed as both naturally spontaneous and creative, and as a
result of some processes.
I think we need to talk a lot more about business wisdom, how to identify it,
how we might better develop and apply it.
A good friend and work colleague of mine is doing a PhD in Knowledge
Management. Naturally, for any higher degree, he has to do a critical review
of the literature first, before identifying new knowledge areas with his Professor.
Imagine, within our education systems, students having to do a critical review
of the timeless wisdom that has been handed down over thousands of years
before embarking on new knowledge creation. Imagine 'sharing timeless
wisdom'as a more common procedure than it is in organizations today.
But maybe I am again too naive and totally wrong here?
Still its a nice thought on a sunny saturday morning :-)
More at:
www.knowledge-management-online.com
Friday, March 02, 2007
What's the difference between knowledge and wisdom?
Increasingly today, students in my KM seminars
are very interested in wanting to understand and discuss
the difference between knowledge and wisdom.
There are lots of views on this, but here is mine:
Knowledge changes over time.
Wisdom is unchangeable and is timeless.
Knowledge may be a partial truth, at a particular point in time.
Wisdom is complete truth.
We can develop complex knowledge. We can know simple wisdom.
What's your take on this?
More information at:
www.knowledge-management-online.com
are very interested in wanting to understand and discuss
the difference between knowledge and wisdom.
There are lots of views on this, but here is mine:
Knowledge changes over time.
Wisdom is unchangeable and is timeless.
Knowledge may be a partial truth, at a particular point in time.
Wisdom is complete truth.
We can develop complex knowledge. We can know simple wisdom.
What's your take on this?
More information at:
www.knowledge-management-online.com
Thursday, March 01, 2007
Knowledge at the centre of decision making
Recently, I discussed the importance of applying knowledge,
and not just creating and sharing knowledge. Taking this further:
Nothing can be more important than deploying the best knowledge
available, to support decision making.
Whether it's a simple medical diagnosis, or a major decision on world
ecosystem conservation, or a critical policy to help eradicate global
poverty or a strategy to reduce global terrorism.
Knowledge is at the centre of decision making!
Therefore, surely effective knowledge management is more important to the world today
than it has ever been.
Ron Young
For more information:
www.knowledge-management-online.com
and not just creating and sharing knowledge. Taking this further:
Nothing can be more important than deploying the best knowledge
available, to support decision making.
Whether it's a simple medical diagnosis, or a major decision on world
ecosystem conservation, or a critical policy to help eradicate global
poverty or a strategy to reduce global terrorism.
Knowledge is at the centre of decision making!
Therefore, surely effective knowledge management is more important to the world today
than it has ever been.
Ron Young
For more information:
www.knowledge-management-online.com
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