The language of knowledge management
Using phrases like "capture knowledge" and "extract knowledge" is about as inviting as offering to throw your staff into a bare concrete cell and strip search them!
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Totally agree. 'Knowledge Management' itself is a bit of a ridiculous phrase? Is it trying to say that, previously, we hadn't been managing our knowledge - in the widest sense - at all?
I predict that the next big buzzword will be 'Managment Management'...
Posted by: Frankie Roberto | November 07, 2005 at 06:48 PM
I agree - knowledge 'management' is a horribly pejorative term - but quite revealing about the attitudes and implementation that causes so many 'KM' initiatives fail - how about knowledge enablement? :-)
Posted by: guy dickinson | November 09, 2005 at 06:13 PM
John Snowden seems to be getting 'more right' with his notions of organic knowledge management (although that'll probably turn into a horrible piece of over-used jargon before long) and agree with above sentiments. Strikes me we need to think about knowledge as less of a 'thing' that can be dissected, reconstituted, harvested, captured, put-in-a-bag-and- wandered-off-with, and more as a relational process. If we need to think about it at all, that is. The dynamics of power and organisational structures seem to be at the heart of 'knowledge management'...Maybe peeking at that is more meaningful and potentially transforming.
Posted by: Green Fairy | November 17, 2005 at 04:39 PM
I reckon you probably mean my mate Dave Snowden but yes I agree completely.
Posted by: Euan | November 17, 2005 at 05:31 PM
ah yes. that would be he.
Posted by: Green Fairy | November 18, 2005 at 09:42 AM
The dynamics of power and organisational structures seem to be at the heart of 'knowledge management'...Maybe peeking at that is more meaningful and potentially transforming.
Well, I guess ;-)
Posted by: Jon Husband | November 18, 2005 at 09:17 PM