http://blog.tarn.org/2009/06/30/its-mine-and-i-will-choose-what-to-do-with-it/ Unpicking traditional assumptions about KM and the life of the law Mon, 14 Nov 2011 13:28:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://blog.tarn.org/2009/06/30/its-mine-and-i-will-choose-what-to-do-with-it/#comment-1249 Fri, 27 May 2011 15:36:56 +0000 http://blog.tarn.org/?p=482#comment-1249 [...] But other types of knowledge are not so easily automated. Is our wisdom and our final value as individuals in the workplace ultimately one of those abstract human qualities that lie enigmatically beyond the scope of IT or of quantifying? (It occurs to me that many of the blockbusting sci-fi films that have grabbed our collective attention are technological dystopias: AI; 2001; Terminator; I, Robot – much as we hope technology will solve all our issues, some element of human essence cannot be captured within it. There’s a critical difference between crunching data and interpreting it.) It’s hard to tell whether this acknowledgement that individual human capability may elude our ‘bottling skills’ is an admission of the current frontiers of applied IT, or that current employment practice – that employees no more expect a ‘job for life’ than organisations anticipate offering one – must accept that ‘knowledge’ will move on. Organisations capture what they can before the target moves on. (Our human response to this bottling process and its impact on our relationships with each other raises a whole new host of issues too, as Mark Gould points out in this and many other blog postings.) [...]

]]> http://blog.tarn.org/2009/06/30/its-mine-and-i-will-choose-what-to-do-with-it/#comment-652 Mon, 07 Sep 2009 09:43:59 +0000 http://blog.tarn.org/?p=482#comment-652 [...] But other types of knowledge are not so easily automated. Is our wisdom and our final value as individuals in the workplace ultimately one of those abstract human qualities that lie enigmatically beyond the scope of IT or of quantifying? (It occurs to me that many of the blockbusting sci-fi films that have grabbed our collective attention are technological dystopias: AI; 2001; Terminator; I, Robot – much as we hope technology will solve all our issues, some element of human essence cannot be captured within it. There’s a critical difference between crunching data and interpreting it.) It’s hard to tell whether this acknowledgement that individual human capability may elude our ‘bottling skills’ is an admission of the current frontiers of applied IT, or that current employment practice – that employees no more expect a ‘job for life’ than organisations anticipate offering one – must accept that ‘knowledge’ will move on. Organisations capture what they can before the target moves on. (Our human response to this bottling process and its impact on our relationships with each other raises a whole new host of issues too, as Mark Gould points out in this and many other blog postings.) [...]

]]> http://blog.tarn.org/2009/06/30/its-mine-and-i-will-choose-what-to-do-with-it/#comment-503 Wed, 01 Jul 2009 12:59:07 +0000 http://blog.tarn.org/?p=482#comment-503 [...] This post was Twitted by neilrichards [...]

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