Posted by Denham on September 25, 2002 at 08:31:18:

In Reply to: 'Not invented here' syndrome posted by Akhil Shahani on September 25, 2002 at 04:47:14:

Hi Akhil,

What we are seeing may be emergence of very different KM 'tribes'. Each group has different worldviews, beliefs and values, e.g.

KMCI:
Dominated by the philosophy of Popper, i.e the route to knowledge lies through strong falsification and fallability. They hang everything on their KLC (knowledge life cycle) model.

GKEC:
Takes a strong economic view. Looks at KM through the lense of exchanges and valuation. Their standards efforts use economic terminology and theory as the foundation

Entovation:
Puts emphasis on innovation and networking. They are a much smaller and more selective group and membership is via nonimation and invitation

An interesting alternative 'grouping' is the KM bloggers where individuals are publishing their own views rather than joining any group.

My personal view is KM is healthier for having this diversity - I wish there was less anamosity but the claim counter claim does bring new things to light.

Standards & KM? - It is still way too early to make much progress here IMO. We need more particpants to join the dialog and to share terminology before we can even start to talk about standards

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