What Is a Knowledge Ecosystem: through a "Bi-focal" Lens

Table of Contents

Communities of Practice
Defining CoP
Value Proposition

Knowledge Ecosystems
KM Oxymoron
KE: "Bi-focal" Lens
KE: "Triple Network" Lens
KE: "CAS" Lens
KE: Choose Your Lens
Knowledge Ecology
"Data to Wisdom" Curve
KM and KE
The Wheel of KE

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What Is a Knowledge Ecosystem:
through a "Bi-focal" Lens

Looked at through a bi-focal lense, a knowledge ecosystem is:

1. a network of conversations, face-to-face and electronic meetings, facilitated for results, richly hyperlinked with, feeding, and fed by

2. knowledge repositories of what, who, why, how, where, and when

Communities of practice co-evolve with their shared body of knowledge, and the protocols and tools for upgrading it. The dynamic force of this co-evolution is the network of conversations, in which critical perspectives, new needs and circumstances, and better solutions to meet them, are introduced.

The yin/yang diagram on the next page represents the duality of: a) relatively static knowledge bases b) the dynamic conversations, and the hyperlinks that connect them.

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