Shh. Let's not let the cat out of the bag. Tertiaries
unite!
Thanks, Romie.
David
-----Original Message-----
From: Romie Littrell [mailto:
littrellaom@yahoo.co.nz]
Sent: Monday, January 06, 2003 1:41 PM
To:
MG-ED-DV@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU
Subject: [MG-ED-DV] Find-and-Replace Curriculum Development: Re: KM as
fad
Tony makes a useful point. As tertiary educators, we
often engage in find-and-replace curriculum
development. We can latch on to the current management
fad, generated by consulting companies or researchers
generating "unique" new ideas, and do find-and-replace
and cut-and-past and, voila!, we're relevant and
up-to-date. One of my favourite quotes from Peter
Drucker, "When a subject becomes totally obsolete we
make it a required course." Now we can disguise this
fact using the modern technology of word processors.
Regards,
Romie Littrell
--- Tony Nolan <
t.nolan@uts.edu.au> wrote: > G'day
>
> What i find is really strange, is that I did an
> Undergraduate course in
> Sydney, called a B.Info Sci. Not silly computing,
> but all the facets of
> information, knowledge, research, librarianship,
> etc.
>
> When ever I read KM stuff, its is just a cheap
> repeat of what I was
> studying in the early 90's. Same concepts, say
> themes rehashed form the
> Info Sci and Communications journals. Its all just a
> copy, I have not seen
> anything new in this so called emerging field that
> is any different from
> our course notes.
>
>
> It does make me wonder why these fields are often
> the same as before, with
> a few new names for the same concepts, or wether
> people just dont really do
> there home work. Or perhaps there is some other
> explanations.
>
> I think the term KM is the fad, but what is behind
> it or what lays
> underneath it, is basic and is in many forms in many
> disciplines.
>
> cheers
> Tony
>
>
> At 10:59 6/01/03 +1000, you wrote:
> >Greetings and Happy New Year to all!
> >
> >This topic is very close to my heart. I've almost
> finished my PhD (only a
> >month
> >or 2 away!), which focuses on management fads. On
> the other side, the
> >organisation which employs me (4,000 strong)
> implemented KM, complete with new
> >systems and a bevy of external consultants to
> hustle in a new era of knowledge
> >for the department. More than $5 million dollars
> later (who knows? - my
> >conservative guess), it was announced a few weeks
> ago that the database
> >supporting implementation of the KM framework would
> no longer be supported.
> >
> >KM has all the hallmarks of a fad. The ones
> pointed out by the list suffice.
> >But as both Fred and Edryce, I think pointed out,
> there are still elements
> >of KM
> >that every organisation should apply. Does it need
> fancy IT solutions,
> >$3,000/day consultants, clever marketing and deep
> systems changes - I
> >think not.
> >Is it possible to capture the essence of KM through
> effective leadership and
> >shared understanding about the needs of the
> organisation, yes it can. After
> >all, as someone rightly pointed out,
> epistemological inquiry has been going on
> >in its various forms since ancient times. Once
> dialogue moves out of its
> >philosophical or theoretical phase, is
> systematized, institutionalized and
> >commodified into an intervention, it creates its
> own end date. Meaning,
> >it will
> >simply go out of fashion. Faddish? Most likely.
> >
> >KM has its successes and indeed its failures. I
> don't know that I've
> >contributed much to the discussion, only that ....
> "whatever works at the
> >time..." :)
> >
> >
> >
> >Kind regards
> >
> >
> >Wendy
> >
> >
> >
> >
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