How Knowledge Management and Knowledge Ecology Relate with each Other

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: Chose Your Lens
Knowledge Ecology
"Data to Wisdom" Curve
KM and KE

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Designing Knowledge Ecosystems
for Communities of Practice

	Knowledge Management	Knowledge Ecology
Information & Context	Provides you with actionable information and opportunity.	Adds the context, synergy and trust necessary to use information, recognize opportunity, and turn them into knowledge and action.
Architecture & Gardening	The emphasis is on knowledge objects, intellectual asset protection and leveraging, information architecture, auditing and improving knowledge flows, and rules.	The emphasis is on culture, knowledge gardening, soft systems, pattern recognition, prototyping, adaption and feedback, inspiring knowledge, flows and roles.
Bottom- line & Community- orientation	"Bottom line" orientation. Allows us to see the challenges and opportunities for assessing, organizing, portraying and profiting from knowledge.	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.
Policy & Dialogue	Focus on knowledge distribution and access policies, and ways to ensure compliance with them.	Focuson dialog about the policy to ensure all employees agreed on the interpretations, built a joint understanding and explored their shared meaning of the content. assists in obtaining alignment but not insist on control.
Particle & Wave	Has to do with intellectual matter; it has a "particle" or "thing" focus: rules, knowledge transfer engineering, best practices, patents, document collections, FAQs, metrics.	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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