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Post by r055 » Mon Mar 05, 2007 10:38 pm

long shot i know, but have any of you lovely people studied Post Grad Knowledge Management...? :?:

...looking for some literature suggestions... :?
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Post by campbell » Mon Mar 05, 2007 11:17 pm

Come off it!

Most of this lot have barely got past the first few pages of the Elise Workshop Manual and the FAQ ;-)

That's all the KM we need here thankyouverymuch!

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Post by robin » Mon Mar 05, 2007 11:18 pm

I am afraid not - what, actually, is Knowledge Management, post grad or otherwise?

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Post by RDH » Mon Mar 05, 2007 11:19 pm

Is that just not a fancy name for a librarian?

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Post by r055 » Mon Mar 05, 2007 11:29 pm

thanks.... :?
thats a big fat no then...?

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Post by k12chu » Mon Mar 05, 2007 11:55 pm

ENCYCLOPEDIA - Compilation of knowledge.

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Post by robin » Tue Mar 06, 2007 12:38 am

r055 wrote:thanks.... :?
thats a big fat no then...?

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Nice emoticon - but seriously we were hoping you could tell us what it's about - not that we have the answer to your question but I for one am interested!

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Post by r055 » Tue Mar 06, 2007 9:42 am

People often confuse Knowledge Management with storage of information in a library. Thats why you often get organisations saying they have a knowledge management system in place and it is not much more than a electronic database full of files and directories.

KM should delve more into the socialology and human elements of learning and teaching. Its easy for someone to mind dump information into words - not so easy for them to describe how someone else would pick up that information and make it knowledge in their head.
This is based on the fact that Knowledge is personal and therefore someone wishing to adopt someone elses knowledge has to convert, decode and apply their own personalised experience before the information becomes knowledge.

Its mainly aimed at the 'learning organisation' who have identified that they are repeatedly failing on the same thing over and over again and wish to learn from experience - something which is hard to do in a large national or global company.

Knowledge Management is not my subject, but I am researching into the use of computer-aided Facilities Management and have been directed down the path of Knowledge MAnagement.

Like most academic management principles, they tend to overcomplicate processes that individuals often take for granted.

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Post by robin » Tue Mar 06, 2007 10:05 am

r055 wrote: Like most academic management principles, they tend to overcomplicate processes that individuals often take for granted.
Too true - Katie is in year one of the OU's Psychology degree and it's full of ghastly words that mean nothing and were invented simply to make it seem more of a science :-)

Good luck with the application of computers - I suspect you are pissing up a tree though - they are really good at storage and indexing but not so good at being clever :-)

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