Re: Knowledge Management

1999-10-04 Thread Richard Charles Holloway
Kay, you've asked a very good question here. (at least I attributed this one correctly, eh?) (-; The short answer to your question is that systems haven't been put in place yet to make the sharing practical and effective. The entire hospital may not be ready to change (yet), but at least the neo-

Knowledge Management

1999-10-04 Thread Kay Wakefield
Doc: You stated: "Adopting KM practices and principles requires significant change to organizational systems, especially those we call human systems or culture. An effective KM change effort will be stymied if the organization cannot transform itself...and without systemic KM practices and princi

Re: Knowledge Management

1999-10-04 Thread Kay Wakefield
Doc, thank you for your comments which I read with great interest. However, I do have one correction. You credit me with great perception. Actually, I quoted BJ who quoted T. S. Elliott in the first paragraph and I quoted the nurse story from Joe Paul. My only contribution was to put the two togeth

Knowledge Management

1999-10-04 Thread Kay Wakefield
B.J. "Where is the life we have lost in living; where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge and where is the knowledge we have lost in information?" Isn't the quote from Joe Paul where wisdom and knowledge are? When a experienced nurse in a neo natal unit says "this baby doesn't look right" in

Re: Knowledge Management

1999-10-04 Thread Virginia
Thank you BJ your timing of that quote is wonderful! Virginia -Original Message- From: BJ Peters To: osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu Date: Monday, October 04, 1999 3:58 PM Subject: Re: Knowledge Management I find this discussion most interesting and am rem

Re: Knowledge Management

1999-10-04 Thread Richard Charles Holloway
Kay, your illustration is quite perceptive. You've described a systemic need to capture (make tacit) what one person knows so that the organization can learn. KM is, essentially, an integral component of any self-organizing system. When I work with people who are beginning to change their cultu

Re: Knowledge Management

1999-10-04 Thread BJ Peters
I find this discussion most interesting and am reminded of what T.S. Eliot said years ago "Where is the life we have lost in living; where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge and where is the knowledge we have lost in information?" In harmony --BJ   <>

"Open Space A to Z Contest

1999-10-04 Thread ralphsc
Dear Open Spacies: And now for something completely different It's a contest, right here in the open space and you may help select the winner, as well as enter as many times as you wish. Read on. As some of you know, I dabble in poetry. One exercise that poetry teachers often assign for youn

Re: RTSC em Cabo Verde (english/deutsch/portugues)

1999-10-04 Thread weber bernhard
Hello Birgitt, yes it is a good feeling to have the impression of beeing at the right place (in social & geographic space & time). But there is also the other side. When things do not work out well, I notize that I am far from Austria, that many people do not think well of Africa, the african p

Information vs. Knowledge

1999-10-04 Thread PKaipa
I have been researching on learning and knowledge management for a while. Here are my perspectives on the knowledge and information. I do look at knowledge to be very different from information. Knowledge addresses how to (know-how). Information addresses what, where, when and who. Russ Ackoff giv