Re: "Knowledge Management Policy"

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From: Raymond J. Johnson Jr. (RayJ_at_nospam.net)
Date: 01/07/05 

Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2005 17:20:15 -0600

Dennis D. wrote:
> The Dewey decimal system in a library does not dumb down the library. It
> makes it more functional.
> Yes it is an imposed strategy, but the application of it is planned and
> dynamic. If you think about it, schools, hospitals, and government offices
> are constituted under some undefined organized naming system. KM gives a
> name to the method of organization, and specifies a plan for implementation.
>
> That is no where more important than in information processing, especially
> in intelligent systems. Microsoft could, and should, be a leader in the
> field. IBM has already accepted the challenge, and produces product
> specifically to help with KM in the workplace. Neither corporation seems to
> have a KM policy at the corporate level, or at least I have been unable to
> find one, and that is where it should exist.
>
> Could be that it is a difficult process, a challenge, to create a (any)
> policy with such a broad spectrum, and the idea of creating a somewhat
> restrictive policy on information systems is not in line with things as they
> are now (the status quo). All the more reason to pursue it I say.
>
> D.

You can't even organize your own thinking, let alone a "knowledge
management system." Your Dewey Decimal System analogy is irrelevant. You
want to manage *my* library. I don't think so. And you don't think.