Apologies for group posting!
Hello Marina
Can you email me? My emails to you keep getting returned without being
delivered.
best wishes
Lynn Martin
-----Original Message-----
From: Charles Wankel [mailto:
wankelc@optonline.net]
Sent: 06 January 2003 16:07
To:
MG-ED-DV@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU
Subject: Re: Knowledge management. Notes on T. D. Wilson's "nonsense"
article.
From: Marina Dabic [mailto:
Marina.Dabic@sfsb.hr]
Dear Colleagues,
I find this discussion interesting, thoughtful, and thought provoking.
This
topic is very close to my heart. Small countrie like Croatia trys to
catch-up the process and my aim is to show how KM is neccessary for it.
Unfortunatly we still didn't have course Knowledge Management on
udegraduate
level, and I am trying to include it on graduate level. I must admit, I
do
not know Ronald Gross's book, nor have I heard of his
typology. Even more i find myself not enough educate on that subject.
Last
few years i tryed to read lot of references but a real word missed. If
you
have any course or summer school with possible schoolarship, or some
good
teaching materials please inform me.
I find that the share of knowledge is our mision, so I 'll try my best
on
small university.Thanks for any assistance
sincerly yours
Marina Dabic
Assistant Professor
University of Osijek
Mechanical Engineering Faculty
35000 Slavonski Brod
Trg Ivane Brilic Mazuranic 18
Croatia
tel:++385 (0)35 446718
marina.dabic@sfsb.hr
----- Original Message -----
From: Ken Friedman <
ken.friedman@bi.no>
To: <
MG-ED-DV@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU>
Sent: 06. sijeèanj 2003 17:44
Subject: Knowledge management. Notes on T. D. Wilson's "nonsense"
article.
> Dear Colleagues,
>
> Having had a chance to read T D Wilson's article, I'd like to add a
few
> notes to this thread.
>
> Wilson raises valid issues and offers a useful critique of cognitive
and
> philosophical misunderstandings. He also demonstrates that knowledge
> management is a fad as it is treated in some cirucmstances and by some
> groups.
>
> What he does not do is demonstrate that knowledge management is
problematic
> in the way he feels it to be. The problem is a category confusion.
> Knowledge management is a field of inquiry. The label could be better,
in
> that knowledge cannot properly be "managed," but the field of inquiry
is a
> valid and important area that brings together a range of themes from
> several disciplinary perspectives.
>
> Rather than repeat my earlier post, I'll simply say I posted a note
with
my
> basic view. Posting a comprehensive note on the issues and
distinctions
> involved in data, information, and knowledge is something for another
day.
> There is also the issue of the grounds of judgement for action based
on
> knowledge, and the actions that flow from those grounds, wisely or
> prudently, adversely or foolishly. This is sometimes discussed under
the
> term wisdom, but if that seems too old-fashioned a term, I will refer
to
> such cognates as prudence, or to the classical Latin term prudentia or
the
> Greek term phronesis. Aristotle's Nichomachean Ethics stills offers
one of
> the first -- and best -- discussions of the kinds of knowledge.
>
> One value in knowledge management is that of drawing attention to
issues
> that have long been overlooked in management research and in
consulting.
> Those of us with multiple backgrounds welcome knowledge management in
part
> because it has made the discussion of these issues acceptable in a
field
> that has often focused on technical administration or pragmatism in a
> simple or narrow sense.
>
> Where I disagree with Wilson is his rather harsh critique of Nonaka
and
> Takeuchi. Their work was important work, and their contribution should
not
> be overlooked. If they had covered everything or developed all the
issues
> comprehensively, there wouldn't be much left for us to do, would
there?
I'd
> rather look on them as pioneers whose profound contribution had minor
flaws
> and gaps than look on them as somehow to be blamed for the problems
arising
> from others who have not used their work well.
>
> It should be noted that T. D. Wilson's paper may be hard to find
because
it
> appears only in an e-journal hosted by the University of Sheffield.
The
> journal is Wilson's own departmental journal, and he is its editor.
The
> Sheffield server was down, but Google carries a chached version of the
> page.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Ken Friedman
> Associate Professor
> Department of Leadership and Organization
> Norwegian School of Management
>