Or to take Anderson’s example, Encarta sales didn’t bring in money equivalent to the exchange value it destroyed for Britannica et al. won’t go so far as to say that the knowledge economy is going to be no economy at all, but it is a shrinking one in terms of money, both in terms of cost to the consumer, and in terms of the jobs produced in it. He stated this assessment in even sharper terms in a comment under Michel Bauwens’s blog post What’s variously called the “ cognitive capitalism ” model, or Paul Romer’s New Growth Theory, assumes that technological progress and increased efficiency will lead to “economic growth” in the sense of the total volume of monetized economic activity.

Efficient communication and fruitful knowledge sharing between projects and field offices are a challenge. Regularly, meetings help a lot but are not enough for an effective information exchange. Objective: To achieve a better horizontal communication, promote corporate identity, enhance knowledge sharing, and achieve more efficiency. Christian Kreutz worked for two years at the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit ( GTZ ) in Egypt. The German Technical Cooperation works quite decentralized having country offices in most partner countries.

Since 1999, my work has been related to Knowledge Management (KM). Already then, KM was a term that was not well recognised; at the time, we did not label our KM-related consulting services with Knowledge Management. Today I am holding an official position in Knowledge Management, still many people do not grasp the term and have a clear understanding of it. “Knowledge We welcome Tim Wieringa as a guest blogger to Green Chameleon. Since 8220;Knowledge Management” seems to be fuzzy and not specific enough; it does not refer to daily (work) life topics.

picture: Mariette Heres In the Broker you can find an article called Aid is a knowledge industry in which Mariette Heres argues that " although NGOs are taking more interest in knowledge management, they have so far failed to recognize that they are part of a knowledge industry, of which the delivery of goods and services is only a part." I think it is interesting to put up such a statement, which makes people think. Unfortunately she does not define what a knowledge industry is, which makes the argumentation weaker. And there is no definition to be found on wikipedia.

came away with a new/old idea: that we need an open innovation exchange to help entrepreneurs, councils and customer/citizens collaborate to find new ways forward. Of course there are brilliant exceptions … officers and whole council departments around the country who are doing great work: Devon, Kent, Barnet, Barnsley keep getting mentions, and there are quite a others as I explored at another conference about knowledge management. The Crowdsourced Council event earlier this week was for me interesting at three levels. First for the idea expressed in the name - that

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The second seminal experience was taking part in George Por’s “Knowledge Ecology University” or KEU as we called it, and the  relationship forming event of the KE Fair . Heaven because we can access knowledge and relationship like never before. Global Networks & Knowledge Sharing This afternoon I’m spending a half hour on a Skype video conversation to share a bit of how I use social media. I

Its called a community of practice � a group of people informally bound together by shared expertise and passion for a joint enterprise � and it promises to radically galvanize knowledge sharing, learning, and change. Snyder Todays economy runs on knowledge, and most companies work assiduously to capitalize on that fact. Communities of Practice: The Organizational Frontier 2/22/2000 A new organizational form is emerging in the information economy, alongside work groups, project teams and informal networks.� Etienne C.

Last week I spent half a day in a workshop on local government knowledge management. This focus on conversations is not new in the knowledge management field … what is different is see ng The event was organised by Steve Dale , who works with IDeA on improving how our councils operate - in his case by developing communities of practice for knowledge sharing, with Michael Norton, as I reported here . Boring waste of time? Absolutely not, because it gave me some breakthough thoughts on collaboration within and between organisations, and may well make a big difference

We share ‘information’, whereas ‘knowledge’ may be something I create with you through interaction, and we both may come away with slightly different versions, meaning, and impact of that exchange. ie we use our current knowledge or understanding to make sense of new information, and if it really makes sense to us or to our context; or we use it in action, then it will imprint as a pattern or fragment in our person. It’s absolutely paramount that KM sheds its skin of codifying and storing in a database…this is just information management. Sure