Thursday, March 28, 2013

Information Management + Human Element = Knowledge Management ?

English: A schematic showing the spreading of ...

English: A schematic showing the spreading of humans in history. The schematic is made based on an image in the magazine “Natuurwetenschap en techniek, oktober 2009″. This image in the magazine was an image made using data from the (Photo credit: Wikipedia)


Based on the ‘old’ KM pyramid of Data, Information and Knowledge, one could argue that Data put in context becomes information (the documents, spreadsheet and presentations we all create plenty of). As @KM_Researcher tweets:


https://twitter.com/KM_Researcher/statuses/317254700162490369


adding the human element to information results in Knowledge Management.


There is more to it that this simple equation, though in general there is truth to it. Computers don’t manage knowledge, humans do. And as such social networking (as in the human factor transported through online interaction) should be part of every Knowledge Management strategy.



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Information Management + Human Element = Knowledge Management ?

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