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29 Apr 08

Knowledge-at-work: Knowledge and knowing

knowledge resting in ecology instead of commodity

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  • knowledge and knowing ecology and relationships are what knowledge is and much more excellent - brentmack on 2006-09-24

  • Knowledge as possession pervades most of our thinking and writing. We talk easily of knowledge harvesting, knowledge transfer, intellectual capital, knowledge assets, capturing, storing, distribution, valuation, ownership, purchase and possession when managing knowledge. This is knowledge as an object, a resource, a commodity. This is explicit, explicated, static, rigid, recorded.



    Knowledge can be observed from other vantage points - consider knowledge as dispersed, community bound, emergent, ephemeral, embedded in practice, as sense-making, arising from interaction and dialog. In this sense, knowledge is acquired through participation, practice, apprenticement. knowledge is 'being' and doing, shared understandings and frameworks. Knowledge is socially and culturally  mediated, negotiated interpretation and embedded in relationships.



    Knowledge, in this second view, is not a token, ownership rests within the ecology and is collective, knowing is rooted in membership, practice and being, emerges via dialog and actor to actor exchange - it cannot be extracted, captured, exchanged without critical loss of meaning, context and value. This helps explain why best practice transfer is a myth, why ethnography rather than surveys  are needed to uncover knowledge, why measuring knowledge makes no sense, why mentorship, community, relationships, trust and dialog are keys to knowledge fermentation.

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  • quick note on value of creating passionate users and communities - brentmack on 2006-09-24
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