Posted by mike cahill on September 30, 1999 at 13:27:38:

In Reply to: At The Heart of the Matter posted by Martyn R Jones on September 30, 1999 at 11:17:11:

Gents,

As to elegant, we plead to that.

As to simple, apparently it is not.

A few months ago, it took me 4 hours to explain it to one of our VERY ESTEEMED fellow scientists at Lawrence LN Laboratories here. Even then, interestingly, he said that, "Although I understand it intellectually, there is still something unsavory about it." My colleague and I laughed like hell all the way back form Livermore. Not at HIM, but at the condition of the human MIND. To reject new things, appears to have survival value.

Applications abound, but you must be wise enough to pick good ones. I will soon focus here on "Strategic Analysis and the Heart of Change" .. that is the working subtitle for the forthcoming paper on the Knowledge Engine. It will deal with how executives can mobilize their knowledge systems for a FULL understanding of the reality within which they are working ...something that people like Ken Olson and Napoleon could have used. This won't be some pie in sky deal ... in this one, we are going into the lair of the beast ... how to assure victory in a hyper-dynamic environment.

But I will point you to one that will make you famous or rich or both. Look at Figure 5 and Figure 2a. Do you see how to map the latter onto the former?

Finally, if you have serious ideas about a non-English applications, lets discuss it. The obvious key to Knowledge Theory apps is to avoid doing what has been done ... like showing how it can be used to develop all of mathematics .. hey its already been done.

Here is an idea that I would support, if we can find a small group of serious professionals to do it. How about developing a rigorous and powerful methodology for applying KM to some large entities? You think someone has it? We can start with theirs then. We can deconstruct it for its deficiencies while we simultaneously build our own starting from the simple Triad that the company has Knowledge Resources that need to be Processed to achieve its Objectives:

T1 = R (Ks) P (Ps) O (?)

We can sell it to one of the Big 5 or set up a consultantcy to deploy it.

IOW, you want apps, lets start! Anywhere.

Best
mike

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