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Re: knowledge, KM and intellectual capital


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Posted by george goodall on October 04, 2003 at 23:43:19:

In Reply to: Re: knowledge, KM and intellectual capital posted by Lauri Gröhn on October 02, 2003 at 10:17:57:

Is Trixie a Groenendael? I have one of my own. Her name's Wylee and she is easily the most intelligent and and responsive dog that I have ever worked with. Unfortunately, she can't compete in the show-ring: she's too big, has too much white on her chest, and her bottom teeth are a bit crooked. Although she's an amazing dog, she "classifies" as a failure.

I often wonder if knowledge suffers the same fate as my Wylee. By forcing knowledge into false ontologies--for the purposes of intellectual capital accounting or tacit knowledge codification--something gets lost. Even if the knowledge is crucial and important, it doesn't *classify* as such and becomes invisible.

I'm reminded of a quote by Sharon Traweek:

"A singular focus on simplicity, stability, uniformity, taxonomy, regularity, and hierarchy can, of course, be limiting. Furthermore, every way of making sense has its cognate forms of obsession. Certainly, there is an aesthetics of purification that can linger over the ways of the mind and body... Swirling around with Occam's razor, slicing away what cannot be categorized, leaves more than order behind." (1996, pg. 146)

In our discussion of KM ontologies and accounting, what do we leave behind? What gets automatically disqualified from the show-ring?

Refs

Traweek, S. (1996). Unity, Dyads, Triads, Quads, and Complexity: Cultural Choreographies of Science. In A. Ross (Ed.), Science wars (pp. 139-150). Durham: Duke University Press.


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