John -- just wanted to mention, good technology and good people are not
mutually exclusive. Creating and managing knowledge requires creative,
disciplined and knowledgeable people, willing to work together to leverage
their collective creativity and knowledge to try to ride the storm of
change. As a result, it requires significant changes to working
relationships and business strategies.
Accessing knowledge doesn't mean that you don't apply your own capability
and capacity to create new possibilities. Often, the knowledge just
provides an insight, an approach, that you may not have
considered...sometimes, it's just a component of an overall process that
must be synthesized into the final product.
The key is to realize the multiple dimensions of capacity here--creative
minds, improved knowledge management technology, organizations that value
collective efforts of well-performing teams and work groups (oops! sounds
like a potential learning--living--organization to me).
I appreciate and empathize with the sentiment you expressed...just wanted
to add the optimistic note to your chord.
Oh--one last item. The neat thing about it is the opportunity to
synthesize knowledge (the creative process) into a learning object, then
capture what's learned into a new knowledge object. It's a heckuva
pyramid scheme!
regards,
Doc Holloway
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