Posted by adibabu on December 01, 2001 at 05:54:24:

In Reply to: Why has knowledge management gone dead? posted by Riva Gianluca on November 30, 2001 at 13:27:03:

Hai Riva,

I am glad to find one of the very few people in the KM-knowing world who had, without any hesitation and but with much conviction, almost confirmed the death of KM.

Sincerely, I am amused.

I doubt what you have said (that you have been studying KM for SEVERAL months!). What you have said over there has inevitably made me conclude to say that:

** You are very much obsessed with the THEORY, presented in various sources, of KM.
** You seem to have failed to understand that the way an 'epistemologist' looks at KM is not the way a CEO or a CKO does.
** You have not, I am as sure as I am alive and writing this, completely observed the real way KM is getting spread. YES, KM is getting spread and is here to stay.

I am very sorry, if this is offending. As I have truly felt concerned about the relevance, genuinity and practicality of the theses you are supposed to submit (I was given to understand that you have not yet submitted it), I am writing this, this way.

BPR is here. TQM is here and KM has been here quite for some time. The problem here, as I look at it, is that you might not have seen what you might have expected of KM to be doing.

But then, organizations have been there only to mint money. Don't you accept that? Hence, they do not easily fall for any thing, as they know, more and better than you and I, the value of ROI.

A good number of organizations have already started to implement KM (IN CUSTOMISED WAY TO MEET THEIR BUSINESS OBJECTIVES) and day by day more and more are joining the stream.

We have always known that 'the more something is talked about, the less it is discussed'. KM is more talked about by all those who have been trying to get their piece of cake. It is these pseudo-practitioners that do not understand what KM is, why KM now, what it has to offer, how it does it, etc., that have made it to look cheap enough.

But I am sure that KM is and shall be. But, then, all may not be using the same NAME.

Once again, I bid sorry, if I have sounded harsh. I felt I had to.

Thank you,

Adi Babu

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Follow Ups:

• Re: Hai Riva, sorry, I do not understand what you say! Riva Gianluca 13:22:10 12/03/01 (8)
  • Success Andrew Alexander 02:10:59 12/04/01 (1)
    • Re: Success Riva Gianluca 09:58:40 12/04/01 (0)
  • That's really cool! Adi Babu 01:50:05 12/04/01 (5)
    • Re: That's really cool! Riva Gianluca 10:26:22 12/04/01 (4)
      • That's fine. Adi Babu 22:17:03 12/04/01 (3)
        • Re: That's fine. Riva Gianluca 12:07:51 12/05/01 (2)
          • Here is what I mean by BPR. Adi Babu 04:35:30 12/06/01 (1)
            • Re: Here is what I mean by BPR. Riva Gianluca 11:11:33 12/07/01 (0)

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