[I]nformation that cannot be reliably retrieved is not really being stored. - David Deutsch, The Beginning of Infinity I've been assigned knowledge management projects four different times in my career. I'm 0 for 4 on cracking the code. The smidgen of success I did have was with a start-up in the late 90's. The company was sold to GE before the project had a chance to mature, but it looked promising. In hindsight, the fact this was a smaller team is probably what made the prospect for success more promising.
Timely blog for me as I have just been assigned HRO training at my workplace. We collect a lot of data in healthcare and as part of a quality team I need good data to make good decisions that may affect patients. I want to focus on areas that prevent infection so my focus is always in the future but grounded in daily, hourly, minute by minute habits that have been studied for a long time and generated a lot of data. The point you make so eloquently is data is not knowledge and certainly not wisdom. I would posit that we have enough data to troll through for several lifetimes so start focusing on building useful, applicable knowledge that is simple for all of us to use.
Timely blog for me as I have just been assigned HRO training at my workplace. We collect a lot of data in healthcare and as part of a quality team I need good data to make good decisions that may affect patients. I want to focus on areas that prevent infection so my focus is always in the future but grounded in daily, hourly, minute by minute habits that have been studied for a long time and generated a lot of data. The point you make so eloquently is data is not knowledge and certainly not wisdom. I would posit that we have enough data to troll through for several lifetimes so start focusing on building useful, applicable knowledge that is simple for all of us to use.