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[Michael Sampson] Michael Sampson: Notes on "Creating an Enterprise Wide Knowledge ...: don't call it "knowledge management". Grant and others prefer the term "know how". - be careful about talking that substitutes for action, eg, "tacit knowledge", best practices (better to focus on standard everyday things . ... people (ask someone else), experiment (just try things), practical (will just leave it there until we need something done). These different learning styles need to be taken into consideration when planning a knowledge environment. ...

[Hypios - Thinking] Transactional Open Innovation: Not So Limited « Hypios - Thinking: in enterprise problem-solving looms so large. If tacit information is by definition what cannot be recorded or otherwise made explicit and therefore cannot be included in any problem formalization, then tacit knowledge would mark the limit of the effectiveness of transactional OI tools.

[Management Papers: Management Essay Help, Term Papers on Management, Management Research Papers] Knowledge Management - an Organization Behavioral Approach: User-friendly working conditions, translating relationship that involves communicating and exchanging knowledge in a shortest physical distances between individuals, by having more open and flexible layouts and the present of a global information board that attracts people to look and later discusses the information, will help encourages the use of knowledge.There are four patterns of knowledge creation:· From tacit to tacit· From tacit to explicit· From explicit to tacit· From explicit to explicitTacit knowledge are unpublished knowledge, normally knowledge that resides in an individual, where as explicit knowledge is published knowledge, or knowledge that is documented.Tacit to tacit refers to the transfer of knowledge from one individual to another.

[pda data acquisition] Knowledge Management & Learning Organisation: Six of one and a ...: After working on the World Development Report on Africa, Egypt has to be fast in order to increase their knowledge base, to invest in educating people about the knowledge, and take appropriate use of new technologies for the acquisition and dissemination of knowledge. The report stresses the importance of one (1) on measures to reduce the knowledge gap to enable poor countries separated by the rich countries (2) promote cooperation between organizations, governments, multilateral organizations, nongovernmental organizations and the private sector to work together, and (3) promote a culture of sharing knowledge.

[Pharmaceutical Industry | Processing & Engineering: Knowledge, News and Analysis | Pharmaceutical Manufacturing] Pharmaceutical Quality by Design | QbD for Better Method ...: If an analytical method is viewed, simply, as a process, whose output is data of acceptable quality, QbD concepts designed for manufacturing processes can be applied to analytical methods [4]. Thus, the concepts of lifecycle validation that are being developed for manufacturing processes might also be applied to analytical methods. 

[china adoption] china adoption Knowledge Based Economy: With increased mobility of information and the global work force, knowledge and expertise can be transported instantaneously around the world, and any advantage gained by one company can be eliminated by competitive improvements overnight. The only comparative advantage a company will enjoy will be its process of innovation--combining market and technology know-how with the creative talents of knowledge workers to solve a constant stream of competitive problems--and its ability to derive value from information.

[Cheap Book] Knowledge Based Economy: With increased mobility of information and the global work force, knowledge and expertise can be transported instantaneously around the world, and any advantage gained by one company can be eliminated by competitive improvements overnight. The only comparative advantage a company will enjoy will be its process of innovation–combining market and technology know-how with the creative talents of knowledge workers to solve a constant stream of competitive problems–and its ability to derive value from information.

[Blogging Innovation] Blogging Innovation: Misconceptions about Transactional Open ...: In fact, the first 3 reasons offered are really aspects of a single challenge that faces TOI: how to broadcast an internal problem, one which might be difficult for those unfamiliar with the problem's context to "get," and how to evaluate a solution that may either not look like what you might have expected or might not include all the information that you need in order to understand and execute the solution. If this aspect of the transaction were not a problem than TOI's failure to solicit long-term engagement wouldn't be presented as a fault, since what you wanted from TOI in the first place is actionable information at the ready, and not long-term, costly commitments.

[Experiment, Adopt, Achieve] Experiment, Adopt, Achieve » Successful Innovation: Takeuchi 1995), and firms should put resources and practices in place that support capturing and codifying what would otherwise remain less accessible but valuable tacit knowledge (Polanyi 1966). Referencing Knowledge Management best practices, creating a knowledge repository with an emphasis on collaboration, such as an enterprise wiki solution or groupware, broadens the reach of the sum of organisational knowledge and can quickly become a breeding ground of innovative ideas, evolving from signals captured from outside the firm.

[Evolving Excellence] Evolving Excellence: The Contradictions of Toyota: Lean Overview - 3P - 5S - Jidoka - Kaizen - Value Streams - Visual Factory - Pull - JIT - Kanban - Quick Changeover - Cellular Manufacturing - Standard Work - Theory of Constraints - TPM - TWI

[Experiment, Adopt, Achieve] Experiment, Adopt, Achieve » Knowledge Management Essay: Microsoft chairman Bill Gates framed the challenge precisely in an interview for a Newsweek magazine article in 2006: “While information wants to be free, knowledge is much ”˜stickier’ - harder to communicate, more subjective, less easy to define.” He continued that an employee’s value to their firm is wrapped up in their tacit knowledge. “Your ability to combine it with the knowledge of co-workers, partners and customers can make the difference between success and failure - for you and your employer.” (Twentyman 2006) The message to management is clear: the cultivation and generation of strategic knowledge, followed by the effective capture, diffusion and consequent amplification will define competitiveness in tomorrow’s businesses.

[Library clips] Library clips :: fringe contacts: people tagging :: May :: 2006: I may discover person A is an expert on something, and I don't even know them, but person B does so they tagged person A”¦so thanks to person B for sharing his/her tacit knowledge. ...

[The giraffe] Monitoring knowledge (management): an impossible task? « The giraffe: This would certainly be true of at least one of the papers you are considering which unproblematically assumed that tacit knowledge can deliberately be made explicit by rational actors and that a monetary value could be placed on this. Most evaluations I have undertaken do assume a truth to be discovered and also assume a linear if-then causality discoverable by mostly natural science methods.This is the issue which I think IKME is contesting and is automatically problematised by the idea of ‘many knowledges’.

[The FASTForward Blog] The FASTForward Blog » The problem of incentives in knowledge work ...: Invariably, after an early spurt of activity and experimentation with the new systems, usage plateaus and talk turns to devising incentive systems to promote more participation. Behind the talk is the assumption that we can treat knowledge workers as rational economic actors and that the proper incentives will produce the desired behaviors.

[Roman Catholic Blog] Roman Catholic Blog: The U.S. Bishops Allow Local Bishops To ...: In keeping with the spirit of that age, at some time during the summer of 1966, the Immaculate Heart nuns of Los Angeles, California invited a New York psychiatrist to their retreat house in Montecito to conduct what had come to be called an encounter workshop, a session of truth-telling and ice-breaking group exercises that broke down social inhibition, fostered an illusory sense of intimacy, and opened the way for the engineering of consent through small group peer pressure. The nuns liked encounter groups so much that a year later a psychologist by the name of Carl Rogers and his associates began something they called the Education Innovation Project with the entire order and all of the schools it ran for the archdiocese of Los Angeles.

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