Posted by Riva Gianluca on December 01, 2001 at 03:40:51:

In Reply to: Has KM really gone dead? posted by Denham on November 30, 2001 at 16:31:42:

Hi Denham,Nice to hear from you. I didn't intend to upset anybody, I just wanted to wake up the speech wich is a little bit too asleep. What I was saying is that the problem of knowledge is a difficult one. There are 3000 years of epistemological studies. The fact they didn't find out an ultimate answer says quite enough...Knowledge is connected with our brain working, which is something stil not understood very well...I have got my personal concept of knowledge. I think it's a multidimensional concept, and some dimensions (for example the one academics call "interactive memory", knowledge of your work fellows) are not at all codifiable...
Well, I know very well the idea of Communities of Practice by Wenger (My theses' references are 30 pages long!!!), and I'm a little skeptical at the way firms are dealing with it. Community is spontaneous and emergent (can you imagine engineering a community in the real life, for example a nation, friendship or love?).
Knowledge Sharing? An important and interesting issue, althou it's quite misunderstood as well. It deals a lot with human resource management, an argument which is nearly totally neglected here...You share knowledge if you trust people and if it's worth it! I agree to some extent to professor Pfeffer's ideas (He proposed "seven" practices to make learning and knowledge sharing thrive, such as equality, open books, little enthusiasm for downsizing, training in action, outside the classic and boring and useless classroom). You can't forget the value of symbols: how can one say "Share your knowledge while I keep my golden balance sheet hidden"
Finally, There are two important concepts I'm starting to deal with that are enterely forgotten: creativity and diversity. KNowledge is absolutely connected to them! Absolutely! But ironically here nobody cares! I will launch two new discussions concerning them!
P:S This is nothing to do with the topics. Ellu, I love you even you've forgotten me. I'm sorry, but there's somehing more than knowledge management!

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