Excellent summary of the issues I have discovered. The project I am
currently working on, and thus the interest in knowledge management and
systems thinking, has as one of its outcome a training strategy. Now the
problem is that the training managers (both a staff member and the
commander or CEO) are the problem of determining the best mix of training
events, with a mix of training environments (live, virtual and
constructive or computer managed wargaming) all intended to produce the
unit or organizational readiness desired. Laying out there in the abyss is
endless information (well a lot anyway) about all the events, tasks, modes
of training, etc. I decided near the beginning of my research into the
project that what I was being asked to product was a decision making
model. Simple, heh? The notion of attention gathering hits home here. How
does the model draw the attention of the user to the relevant elements,
filtering out the unneeded? Doing this without some new, high speed
program. That raises the question, are we talking about knowledge
management or information management? A difference? I hope so.
Any ideas on a research project? Good question. As I get closer to
completing course work and must focus on a dissertation topic, the more I
am captured by the distinction of information and knowledge management. I
see something here.
Hypothesis forming. The ability of the individual or group to discern
relevant knowledge is related to the ability to identify types of
information. This process then enables the individual or group to form a
specific strategy of knowledge management, directed to a single or group
of goals, objectives and outcomes.
What ya think?
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