A funny thnig happened on the way to the knowledge economy; we somehow got stupider - Matthew Crawford, Shop Class as Soulcraft, quoted in Time, 08/06/09
A business is also a way to store data. As a restaurant owner, I was fascinated at how employees came and went, but their best ideas often stayed with the business, especially in the kitchen - Scott Adams, http://dilbert.com/blog/entry/exobrain/
In today's world where knowledge is power, it should come as no surprise that the most valuable asset any business has is the knowledge of its employees. And within a knowledge-based economy, competent and confident employees are the foundation for a successful business. Or, at least, so argued a recent article.
The Henley KM Forum made available for download a series of free leaflets of research output summarised for "Knowledge in Action".
Everything is fragmented, and that's good, many believe.
A recent list of Knowledge Management blogs covers general KM, Web 2.0, Content Management and collaboration.
New tools and techniques for capturing and sharing knowledge...
David McCandless helps people overcome information overload by encouraging us to use our eyes more in order to visualise and design the patterns that matter.
As such, David is continuing in a long tradition of using diagrams to describe things that transcend the written word. A single image can convey the simple underlying pattern hidden by words or equations: draw the right picture and you can literally transform the way we see the world.
The Work Foundation's Knowledge Economy Strategy 2020 argues that the UK (and by definition, similar economies) face three immense and closely related economic and social tasks