Posted by Martyn R Jones on January 21, 2000 at 21:09:31:

In Reply to: Re: KM -- Why Bother? posted by Reilly Atkinson on January 21, 2000 at 15:36:18:

Hello Reilly,

Quite. I'm sure that, rhetorically speaking, we would all like to think that we live in the Information, Knowledge, Technology, Digital, Enlughtened Era etc. when all along this is Spin City and the one who can play the dodgiest politics and tell the most convincing half truth is the one that wins - at the moment.

Still, KM does bring some comfort to some companies who just can't get over the thought that they have to realize that maybe employees are actually worth more than they used to and their added-value is due to what they know and, my god, what if they leave, and take all these assets with them, and we can't stop them, because it's not like their stealing the office furniture or the typewriter or something tangible like that, and you know that intellectual property stuff you got them to sign when they joined up just ain't worth the paper it was lasered on anyways.

I like KM, KM gives me work and also people are happy that I do KM for them -- rather liking "doing PR" really, as in:

consultants mum: off to the office are we? and what are you up to today then?
consultant: You know what I do, I do KM!
consultants mum: yes, sounds interesting, but what actually do you do dear?
consultants: oh! good grief! what do you mean what do I do, I do KM, KM! for heavens sake! don't you understand?
consultants mum: alright, well must rush, can't miss the bus. (apologies to AbFab)

I am actually putting together another, probably never to be finished document on "What is KM", which I might never put on our web site - but if I do, I will solicit comments, opinions and other words on the document, which of course will be in PDF format (just bought a thing that turns Word docs into Acrobat stuff) and absolutely free.

Anyways, with regards to the comment on the age of KM I can only comment that here in sunny Cordoba theres a lot of the ghosts of KM still wandering the narrow streets: Seneca, Maimonides, Averroes etc. maybe they would also be humored by how we revere the Age of Knowledge and Information -- oh well, I blame the Puritans myself.

Regards

Martyn

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Martyn R Jones
Director,

p.s. Dear Yogesh, Any chance of putting a spelling checker on this message board form. Some of us are just to lazy to type up messages in a WP first and then spl chk thm

• KM - Mum, I do KM!

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• Re: KM -- Why Bother? Reilly Atkinson 02:08:58 01/23/00 (7)
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