Posted by Denham on January 01, 1998 at 20:37:31:

In Reply to: Knowledge Ecology (Ecology of Knowledge)?? posted by Yogesh Malhotra on December 31, 1997 at 23:54:45:

Is knowledge ecology a separate meme or paradigm from knowledge management? Is this a worthwhile distinction?, does it add value for you as a person?, is the distinction useful to your group, team, community or organization?. I hear arguments that KE is just a different focus within the larger (and more established) KM movement, as we become familiar with using and working explicit knowledge it is a natural progression to turn to the 'softer' issues of tacit knowledge, relationships, personal learning and group meaning.

The KM / KE distinction seems to me to turn on something deeper. The KM and KE folks have very differing priorities, time frames, values, conceptual appreciations of knowledge, tools and practices. Are we witness to and a product of a larger paradigm shift?. Yogesh certainly seems to have been hinting at this transformation in a far larger business context. Are we seeing the software vendors pushing KM and selling 'solutions' to problems and tools for efficient decision making while the KE folks are rooting for a 'softer' target, embodied in 'intelligence' continual learning, shared understanding, distributed authority and creativity? Is it correct to polarize the positions as: KM = search, retrieval and distribution of explicit objects and KE = dialog, emergence, adaption, joint meaning?

So what are your opinions? don't sit on the fence, take a stance or propose a compromise!

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