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Knowledge as a social construct
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Posted by Denham on July 14, 1997 at 14:22:26:
In Reply to: A Strategic Framework of Organizational Knowledge Management Systems posted by Yogesh Malhotra on July 14, 1997 at 01:19:16:
Yogesh,
Your article has made some of my unease with the KM movement explicit. I see too little attention being paid to knowledge as a social artifact. Most of the useful knowledge creation in business takes place in "communities of practice" i.e. it is no longer the preserve of the individual and requires social interaction.
We need to pay more attention to the dynamics of knowledge creation, how is knowledge incremented, tested, attributed, aligned, refined in a group setting? What tools do we have to facilitate this messy process? Can we support groups build their constructs and alter their mental models. What representaion works best at the group level stories, concepts, cases, scripts?
So we agree on the problem, lets explore the solution!!

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Re: Knowledge as a social construct Rene-Marc Mangin 17:22:00 10/13/97 (0)

Re: How to Facilitate Knowledge 'Sharing'? Yogesh Malhotra 20:29:11 7/14/97 (12)

Re: How to Facilitate Knowledge 'Sharing'? Jengiz Gocer 13:16:15 7/04/98 (0)

Re: How to Facilitate Knowledge 'Sharing'? Reynold FP 00:31:39 4/15/98 (0)

Re: How to Facilitate Knowledge 'Sharing'? Duke Rohe 13:18:13 7/18/97 (9)

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Re: How to Facilitate Knowledge 'Sharing'? Jackie 12:56:01 8/18/97 (3)

Re: How to Facilitate Knowledge 'Sharing'? Tom Kaczmarski 14:38:37 12/18/97 (0)

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Re: How to Facilitate Knowledge 'Sharing'? Tom Kaczmarski 14:38:37 12/18/97 (0)

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Re: How to Facilitate Knowledge 'Sharing'? Kees van Langen 10:20:15 10/03/97 (0)

Re: How to Facilitate Knowledge 'Sharing'? Yogesh Malhotra 15:10:23 7/18/97 (2)

Re: How to Facilitate Knowledge 'Sharing'? Jengiz Gocer 13:13:35 7/04/98 (1)

Re: How to Facilitate Knowledge 'Sharing'? Yogesh Malhotra 23:00:38 7/05/98 (0)

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