Knowledge and Information LO30543

From: BARRy Mallis (theorgtrainer@earthlink.net)
Date: 09/10/03


Replying to LO30538 --

Hal,

Your note about facts and knowledge remind me of the simple model that
explains to me the relationship between passive data and actionable
knowledge.

>From all the data, we are capable of extracting information. We can
>define thus information based upon our personal and/or organizational
>filters. That is, we bring our own backgrounds-of-obviousness to the
>data. We extract from the data each according to our own vision ;-).

The information can then become knowledge is it is actually applied to
action. I suppose one can argue that application of information by
thinking can constitute knowledge (data-in-action).

>From knowledge, we may consider a subsequent step to skill, broadly
>defined. Skill shows a use, a usefulness, an application of the
>knowledge, usually over and over again, in order to successfully
>attain a goal.

Best regards,

Barry Mallis

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