Senin, 14 Mei 2012

Chapter 5: Knowledge “Acts”



QUESTIONASKINGANDANSWERIN
Question asking and answering is a foundational process by which what people know tacitly becomes expressed, and hence, externalized as knowledge. They reason that IM addresses questions such as ‘Where,’ ‘Who,’ ‘When,’ and ‘What,’ while KM targets problems involving dynamic complexity, addressing solutions to questions such as ‘How’ and ‘Why.’ Quigley and Debons [1999] adopted a similar stance that considers information as texts that primarily answer ‘informative’ questions such as who, when, what, or where while knowledge is considered as texts that answer more ‘explanatory’ or ‘meaning related’ questions such as why or how. Another category of questions, “What-if,” will also fall in the domain of knowledge activity.Since such questions necessitate predicting and prioritizing outcomes, attempts to address such “what-if ” questions will require integrating understanding of “what” with “why” and “how” to arrive at reasonable resolution

POSTINGCONTENTTOREPOSITORIES
Contributing content such as lessons-learned, project experiences, and success stories is another approach to knowledge sharing.The capturing of best practice has often been highlighted as a form of externalized knowledge. On the other hand, professionals may not have the time to hand off a document for submission to an appointed surrogate either. For many professionals who are used to online communication and accessing databases and discussion lists, we could argue that it is quicker and easier for the professionals to make the contribution themselves. The authors point out that the product supports both the construction of knowledge as content, or as the collaborative, negotiated, coconstructed approach to verifying and validating content, essentially accommodating both the content and process views of knowledge construction.The developed content is then madeavailable to others for (re)use, or, for re-combination, to support newinstances of knowledge creation.
(RE)USINGKNOWLEDGE
Since the publication of this seminal work legions of researchers have worked on systems that will help people formulate effective questions that will retrieve relevant information.McMahon et al. [2004], studying teamwork involving engineering design, suggest that both codification and personalization approaches to knowledge reuse are relevant. They recognize the notion of information value, allowing for the matching of information to the knowledge needs of the user. They propose that good representations of both information characteristics and user characteristics are essential.

KNOWLEDGE-BASED DECISION MAKING
Information used in one activity that results in new knowledge will, in turn, be used to guide selection of alternatives in future tasks that involve decision making. Codified rules and routines would be relied on to support evaluation of alternatives and selection of action decisions. Choice of alternatives, and decision outcomes then provide the backdrop upon which sense making, or justification, of decision rationale occurs. Such decision rationale, and its associated sense making can then be codified for (re)use in other contexts, applied to future activities that draw on it to create new instances of knowledge.involve decision making. Codified rules and routines would be relied on to support evaluation of alternatives and selection of action decisions

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