Posted by Ramesh on February 09, 1998 at 23:35:52:

In Reply to: Re: Information & Knowledge Workers posted by Mezei on February 09, 1998 at 19:53:43:

Hi...
an interesting question indeed...

can we look at it in the following way :

information is external to a person, while knowledge is internal.
knowleedge is the tool which is used to process the information we get to take certain actions and / or to increase our own knowledge. maybe, we can use an anology :

information can be likened to the raw material which enters a factory, while knowledge can be seen as the machines we use to work on the raw material... the raw material can also be used to make newer machines and thus increase our capital....

Ross's example of information workers having a clearer set of rules to work can be because we are indeed clearer of how to convert taw material into regular "prodducts", but the "haziness" associated with the work of knowledge workers is because "creating newer machines" requires ingenuity, iterations and wastage , which is so whenever we are inventing something new...

any further comments ?

Thank You.
Ramesh

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