At 20:39 29/01/99 -0500, you wrote:
>Is it just me, or is anyone else in our community concerned about trends
>in the "field" of knowledge management? It looks like we are about to put
>"the folks who brought you reengineering" in charge of the discipline of
>KM.
Who's putting what into whose hands?
KM, like any other ideology can be used by many different people in many
different ways - and that is exactly what is happening.
KM offers the potential of properly understanding and recognise the value
of knowledge and all those human intellectual capabilities. It requires a
lot of people to understand what this means with its implications for
management styles and power. On the other hand, there will be many people
merely trying to sell gadgets and techniques to appeal to current power
structures.
KM will be largely what we make of it.
Gray Southon
>Remember reengineering? Where we burned our human capital to make
>streamlined work processes? The same folks who tell you to reboot because
>they can't figure out what's wrong, and then can't tell you why rebooting
>works?
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Department of Information Studies
University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
Ph 02 9514 2724, mobile 0414 295 328
Fax 02 9514 2723
email Gray.Southon@uts.edu.au, web page http://www.ozemail.com.au/~gsouthon/
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