Sunday, October 13, 2002

Nonaka's knowledge transfer patterns. Nonaka and technology. Last week, I ended a blog entry with the question, "Do current collaboration tools effectively facilitate Nonaka's four patterns of knowledge creation?" [Kumquat's Musings] » Unfortunately I haven't found a reference to the Nonaka paper on-line.  Nevertheless Andy's summary is interesting.  Nonaka, he say's, identifies four interaction patterns that describe how knowledge is created/transferred in a company. Tacit - Tacit (knowledge transfer by socialization) Explicit - Explicit (formal and systematic, e.g. RTFM) Tacit - Explicit (someone documenting their knowledge, e.g. a weblog posting) Explicit - Tacit (as people read formal documentation it becomes, over time, part of their greater understanding) Since tacit knowledge is, by and large, hardest to come by that makes capturing it the more interesting problem. The question in my mind is: How important do most companies think it is to capture tacit knowledge? It seems to me that it is only those organizations that see themselves as learning organizations are interested in this sort of stuff and willing to invest time and money in it.  I need to find people who see the capture & transfer of knowledge as bottom-line activities. I haven't come across too many organisations like that.   Oh well, networking is a major part of my Get Clients Now! program for the coming month.  If there out there I'm going to try and find them. [The Marwick article referred to in the posting looks very interesting] [Curiouser and curiouser!] 6:38:37 PM    trackback []     Articulate []

To fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise, without being wise: for it is to think that we know what we do not know. For anything that men can tell, death may be the greatest good that can happen to them: but they fear it as if they know quite well that it was the greatest of evils. And what is this but that shameful ignorance of thinking that we know what we do not know? Socrates     --Quoted in Plato's Apology 5:54:43 PM    trackback []     Articulate []

A Dirty, Sweaty and Probably Smelly -- But Really, Really Cool Vacation. A Dirty, Sweaty and Probably Smelly -- But Really, Really Cool Vacation How cool would this be: Maybe it's just the inner dweeb in me but this is a vacation I could really enjoy.  Of course I could also just go to jail and work on a chain gang and pretend.  [ More ] [The FuzzyBlog!] 1:11:49 PM    trackback []     Articulate []

Software Reviews as Training. In addition to all the other benefits, reviews teach while testing. [read more] [Tony Bowden: Understanding Nothing] 1:03:54 PM    trackback []     Articulate []

Awesome!! Joel hits it out of the park again. spec for the installer. [Joel released the spec for the installer he wrote. Interesting if you follow his writing. (He's talked about the importance of writing specs in the past, someone asked if he could post the spec for his intsaller (if he wrote one, heh) and he obliged.] [Archipelago] 12:58:48 PM    trackback []     Articulate []

I started work on a new tool called RSS Explorer. It'll be a very fine piece of software. It allows you to browse another Radio user's subscriptions, and click checkboxes to subscribe. You can add a lot of feeds very quickly. I started with my own subscription list, and then tested with Jon Udell's and Jenny Levine's. If you have a collection of good feeds, and don't mind sharing with other Radio users, please send me a pointer to your mySubscriptions.opml. [Scripting News] 10:39:50 AM    trackback []     Articulate []