Posted by Mezei on February 28, 1998 at 14:41:23:

In Reply to: Re: Knowledge Management and Learning Organizations posted by Robbert Northolt on February 27, 1998 at 03:23:28:

I've been wracking my brain trying to answer that very question(s). A couple of thoughts...

- there is a fundamental duality to information, at least there should be in theory. I came across a related note in Thomas Stewart's 'intellectual capital' book which explains that this duality has to do with the logic of applying information, vs the information we can decipher via that application. In other words, there is explicit information which makes calculations possible to do again and again, and there is the transparancy that studying this same information creates. So the logic is explicit info, while the transparancy is tacit. We can reinterpret existing information that is responsible for set processes, making that information tacit or malleable. Or we can watch it at work, making it purley explicit.

- as far as data, data is either a '1' or a '0'. So you have the 1 is the binary on, and the 0 is the binary off. On implies movement = tacit. Off implies non-movement = explicit. This is getting down to brass tacks, but I'm trying to map the whole spectrum.

So, 1's and 0's get the process going. There's little leeway towards understanding how data differs much in a taict or explicit mode, but once it moves from being purely explicit as a bit and becomes more open to interpretation as a byte, then the hardware can interpret that byte as explicit information. Thus we have the tacit data/explicit info overlap. When information evolves to the tacit level from the explicit level, it becomes possible to interpret it from the explicit knowledge persepective. And so on. I obviously have to think about it some more....

Don

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• Re: Bits/Bytes and data/information/knowledge management Robbert Northolt 09:23:06 3/02/98 (2)
  • Re: Bits/Bytes and data/information/knowledge management Mezei 20:46:47 3/02/98 (1)
    • Re: Bits/Bytes and data/information/knowledge management Robbert Northolt 02:00:16 3/03/98 (0)

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