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Knowledge Ecology and
Knowledge Management Compared
Knowledge
Management |
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Ecology |
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| Provides you with actionable information and opportunity. | Information
& Context |
Adds the context, synergy and trust necessary to use information, recognize opportunity, and turn them into knowledge and action. |
| The emphasis is on knowledge objects, intellectual asset protection and leveraging, information architecture, auditing and improving knowledge flows, and rules. | Driving Metaphors |
The emphasis is on culture, knowledge gardening, soft systems, pattern recognition, prototyping, knowledge creation
and use. |
| "Bottom line" orientation. Allows us to see the challenges and opportunities for assessing, organizing, portraying and profiting from knowledge. | Framework Referenced for Meaning-making |
Community-orientation; Allows us to see what it takes to grow and sustain networks of relationships, from which knowledge--capacity for effective action--will emerge. |
| Focus on knowledge distribution and access policies, and ways to ensure compliance with them. | Compliance & Collaborative Meaning-making |
Focus on dialog about the policy to ensure all employees agree on the interpretations, build a joint understanding and explore their shared meaning of its content; developing alignment but not insisting on control. |
| Has to do with intellectual matter; it has a "particle" or "thing" focus: rules, knowledge transfer engineering, best practices, patents, document collections, FAQs, metrics. | Particle
& Wave |
Has to do with intellectual energy; it has a "wave" or "relationship" focus: trust, knowledge creation, meaning, belief, dialogue, opinion, innovation, creativity. |
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