Category Archives: the secret life of knowledge

Lisa is my inspiration for knowledge management

Since I first found her many years ago now I haven’t let Lisa out of my sight – she’s my inspiration for knowledge management. Okay, I have to confess Lisa isn’t a person, she’s the personification of an idea and a mnemonic that easily reminds me of what I need to act on. She standsContinueContinue reading “Lisa is my inspiration for knowledge management”

The corporate off site (stop making sense)

I’m a tail-end baby boomer so I wuz brung up on these corporate off site meetings. But I’d say that for more than a decade they’ve been bothering me more and more. And because they are sort of ingrained in me this is really against type for me – but irresistible now.There’s quite a formulaContinueContinue reading “The corporate off site (stop making sense)”

So what, then, is “knowledge”?

And so back to the eternal question. It still seems, as it always has these 25 past years, to many people, to be the place to start. “What is knowledge?” I’ve been asked this many times at an early meeting with a new client. And I have many answers and many evasions because I don’tContinueContinue reading “So what, then, is “knowledge”?”

To be knowledge managers we need to understand the real nature of knowledge

What really is knowledge? … and what is it like? … how does it behave and what are its properties? First and foremost knowledge is the effect of experience, information and reflection on our minds. It’s the overall impression left by layer upon layer of incidents and ideas processes by the mind, as is written overContinueContinue reading “To be knowledge managers we need to understand the real nature of knowledge”

Is ‘knowledge work’ work?

I find that people are still troubled by the idea of ‘knowledge work’. They’re probably even more troubled by the rather narrower idea of ‘knowledge management work’.  Is knowledge management really ‘work’ or a distraction from work? What I’m talking about here are those tasks that are required to make knowledge management work. Whether thatContinueContinue reading “Is ‘knowledge work’ work?”