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| 6/01/07 | | KM is harder than rocket science |
This post from Jack Vinson titled ‘Knowledge management is hard?’ reminded me of a presentation I give at the iKMS Conference in Singapore in November. During questions someone asked ‘why is KM so hard? Its not like its rocket science?’ A gentleman in the audience responded “Hmmm, I am a rocket scientist. In rocket science I can generally find a demonstrably correct answer. You can’t do that with KM. KM is harder than rocket science because it is so ‘soft’”.
I also met some great people at the conference. The happy snaps shows (L to R) me with Noor Faridah Rahim, Jerry Ash and David Gurteen. Thanks to Farida for the photo.
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Happy New Year Mark.
You might want to have a look at this article for a counter view - Call, D. "Knowledge management – not rocket science," Journal of Knowledge Management (9:2) 2005, pp 19-30.
Regards Graham
Posted by: Graham Durant-Law at January 7, 2007 1:14 PM
Thanks for the reference Graham. The article contains lots of good quotes (though quotes from 2000 about KM spend are not very credible) and some valuable case studies. Notwithstanding the title of the article, I think it reinforces the complexity associated with KM rather than providing a counter view.
Posted by: Mark at January 10, 2007 8:45 PM