Evolving Paradigms in Knowledge Management
I came across this brief video on the Harvard Business Review the other day on how knowledge management is moving away from the repository as goal . Here's the transcript of the video: One of the interesting ways of capturing the problems with traditional knowledge management is it came at knowledge from a stocks viewpoint, a stocks of knowledge. The problem is, we have knowledge, it's distributed and dispersed throughout the organization. How do we capture it and make it available to others? Certainly a big challenge, I don't want to diminish that as a value, but I think what people found as they tried to implement the various systems and methodologies to do that is there wasn't really a lot of motivation for people to invest the time and effort to develop and define those stocks and make them available as part of a broader repository. This kind of approach really shifts the attention from stocks of knowledge, what we know today, to defining and developing new k...