Posted by Ron dW on June 05, 2000 at 18:32:28:

In Reply to: Current state of KM technologies? posted by MWunram on May 31, 2000 at 07:57:59:

Hi Michael,

That question is in my mind for the past 10 years. At first, I seemed to know from my interest and occupation in knowledge systems. Then there came a moment that magazines about these systems were renamed with km in their title. When the hype set in, the systematic approach was taken over by a field approach. Anything only slightly resembling knowledge system functionality turned out to be km technology. Of course this made everybody (?) happy. The customers were glad they weren't missing the excitement after all. IT companies and management companies now could sell their classical systems as km. I will not name them. You name it, for sure it is km technology. The lined up gurus were happy too. Didn't they know all about km since they had long been interested in knowledge and management? So in any field they were seeking profit, they would find their tools, allied to the companies with a keen eye for km in the sane fields. It was a win-win-win (?) situation.

I now wonder what happened to the systematic approaches. When you ask for studies on the current KM technology trends do you mean the systematic or the field approaches? I guess your choice will function as a medium for the revealing message you are after. My choice was for the systematic, and still is since the field orientations are now showing their opportunism in chaos, sometimes bravely categorized self-centered, by any of the field approaches like any old map of the world drawn around the own home country. Now my choice isn't unbiased either, since I put all my cards on one study I did on the knowledge systems I knew at the time (kads, aionds, level5) and concluded, supported by the job I was in, selling one of these products, that it kept asking for the intervention of information analysts, system designers and software engineers. Now if it was personal knowledge being modeled, shouldn't that be immediately be in the hands of these end users? That set me off to prototyping my system, having it built professionally and put into the market.

Is their a bubble? Will it burst? Perhaps I should have consulted more clairvoyants in marketing dynamics. Perhaps that is the trend in modern km technology.

Regards,
Ron dW

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