[Sigia-l] knowledge management

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"Jody A. Hankinson" wrote:

> If I define myself as an IA by my abilities to see patterns, goals and an
> audience then I am also practice knowledge management. Where I'm not so sure
> is if I am practicing Knowledge Management, the phenomena that has generated
> books, buzz, etc.

OK, now that's much better. But remember many other *titles* have similar
claims on the same terrain from business analysts to data mining folk. So
there's no justifiable reason to reduce IA to KM. KM belongs to the same
pantheon of atherosclerotic buzzwords like ERP, CRM, EDM(1), BPM(2),
PLCM(3), etc. It's unadulterated marketspeak; SARS's got nothing on these
words.

Fundamentally, I question anyone's ability to "manage knowledge". Building
an architecture/framework for access to information that can lead receivers
of such information to knowledge, well, that's another matter altogether.

> So Ziya, please don¹t jump from any tall buildings - our city would be
> the poorer for it.

You mean having to clean up the mess after? :-)

Ziya
Nullius in Verba 

(1) Enterprise Document Management
(2) Business Impact Management
(3) Product LifeCycle Management