Posted by Robert Benjamin on August 14, 2000 at 01:35:31:

In Reply to: Re: Knowledge engineering posted by John Tieso on August 10, 2000 at 21:35:48:

John

My answering thought to your question is; via establishing a "consultant" network internally and externally to the organization. The question is, does it matter where the knowledge comes from?

Recently, an organization exposed all its employees to a "great" video on patterns and paradigms, yet corporates still seem to struggle to think outside of their boundaries and boxes. I think such initiatives end up being just more of the same if the "will" to overcome the natural constraints don't result in experimentation of sorts.

Surely, at some point in time, experimentation does not equate to flirting-with-disaster.

In short, prototyping this approach would teach us whether it is viable or not. In my opinion, corporates aren't generally great at prototyping, regardless of the benefits. We prefer to leave it to the academics instead. Tom Peters suggested this approach as far back as 1990. Yet, we still debate whether or not it might work. Surely by now we should have found out for sure. One has to question our and our leaders' passion to outrun the laws of mediocarcy at times.

Regards

Robert

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