Posted by Denham on September 02, 2001 at 13:26:53:

In Reply to: Two Easy Questions posted by Martyn R Jones on September 01, 2001 at 20:57:57:

1. Question: What is there about KM that makes you feel that this is an absolutely fabulous area to be interested and/or involved in?

The promise:
Lots of energy and excitement, there is no greater personal or organizational leverage beyond continuous learning, easy collaboration and steady innovation. The name (KM) may fade, but the promise and the key principles will be around and essential as long as manking remains / maintains a connected, global, society. Working effectively with knowledge represents the greatest challenge of our time (and all time?)

2. Question: What is there about KM (theory, practice, people, process etc) that makes you really cringe with embarrassment?

Digital scanner sales folks who continually try to sell me the greatest tool ever invented for knowledge capture!. They need to listen up. The common mantra of delivering just sufficient 'knowledge', to the right people, at exactly the right time, to enable them make the right decision. This misses the entire point about KM and confuses data / information / knowledge, sends the wrong message, and takes us back to the days of information systems and data processing!.

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Follow Ups:

• Re: Two Easy Questions Martyn R Jones 20:48:27 09/02/01 (5)
  • IM reality Denham 21:32:24 09/02/01 (4)
    • IM Speculation Martyn R Jones 07:17:01 09/03/01 (3)
      • IM literacy Denham 11:21:42 09/03/01 (2)
        • IM literacy and IM organizations Martyn R Jones 11:46:48 09/03/01 (1)
          • Re: IM literacy and IM organizations Denham 00:50:24 09/04/01 (0)

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