Posted by Mike Barker on January 05, 1998 at 10:27:34:

In Reply to: Re: KE x2 posted by Mike Barker on January 04, 1998 at 08:17:01:

Having thought about it a bit more doesn't it make knowledge management redundant as a management term? Those of us who believe that you can't manage knowledge, only its enablers, will reflect that what you're left with is:

Information Management
People Management [ skills, capabilities ]
Physical Resource Management [ infrastructure ]

the remainder [ culture, values, behaviours etc ] now come under Knowledge Ecology.

I'm not sure it makes the problem any easier to resolve but it certainly removes the confusion around when data becomes information becomes knowledge. I think the next logical step would be to map a knowledge eco-system to see what happens when certain elements disappear from the system. For example, if trust was to disappear would co-operation and sharing die as well because they rely on trust for their survival,

I think thought that if we start to introduce knowledge ecology as a term in everyday business then they'd start to send in the men in white jackets and wheel us out of the building. It's hard enough to sell the title Knowledge Manager let alone Knowledge Gardener, Knowledge Seed Bed etc.

I wonder why nobody thought of describing organisational culture as Business Ecology before? It always make me suspicious of why the differentiation is required now.

To me, though, the split of management from ecology means that the 'knowledge activity can become focused around purpose, values & behaviours therby creating the requirements for specialists concerned with Information, People and Physical resource management.

Does it have an impact though on the model that many are quoting about Knowledge solutions being the integration of People, Process and Technology?

Thoughts?

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