Are we shifting our focus from Knowledge Management to Learning, or from Knowledge Management to Knowledge Work, and/or is Knowledge Work Learning?
David Buchan's post, cited below, on "learning rather than knowledge management," inspired me to seek sage Google Sets suggestions.
As an experiment I loaded "Learning" and "Knowledge Management" into Google Sets as two seed items to hopefully form a larger set. However, Google Sets returned zero additional results.
I then input "Learning", once again, and "Knowledge Work". This search yielded abundant results, including the following:
Learning, Knowledge work, Teaching, Listening, Organizations, memory, Research, perception, Problem Solving, Fun, Reasoning, communication, Planning, Psychological, attention
When I seeded a new set search with: "Knowledge Work" and "Knowledge Management" Google Sets returned the following items:
Knowledge Work, Knowledge Management, Articulation work, Institutional reflexivity
I think Jim McGee is spot on when he writes about "shifting attention from knowledge management to knowledge work. It may not sound like a big difference, but I believe it will prove to be a crucial shift in perspective."
Learning - it's not me alone
Maybe it is just my listening but more and more of the people I read daily are talking about learning rather than knowledge management. A colleague and I predicted this 18 months ago as we spoke of knowledge management being a smaller part of the whole learning piece. - David Buchan
More information from O'Reilly Network on Google Sets
"Google sets is a way to browse the web's implicit ontology. What you do is simple: you enter some terms which you already think of as instances of some class. Google then returns you what it thinks are the other instances of that class."
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Posted on August 27, 2003 by Judith Meskill
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