Daily Archives: February 27, 2003
Knowledge Management links
Some great KM links:
The Seven Myths of KM
Standards Australia KM Framework
The Knowledge Management, Auditing and Mapping Magazine
Knowledge Mgm't Revised : Theory Doesn't Equal Practice (article dated Jan 2001!!)
(excerpt: organizations, say their users aren't interested in reusing old
data. Rather, the early KM adopters are building systems that connect
workers to resident experts on various subjects–but the knowledge exchange
occurs offline)
Organizational Story and Storytelling
McKinsey Quarterly Article on The Case for Building Online Communities
(you require premium membership to view this article)
Fall 2001 issue of the IBM Systems Journal covers KM (excellent resource!)
Cross Cultural
I got one learning from Sumita's post in XLCCM…discovering and owning up one's
own biases and prejudices often gives a worldview a much better
perspective and makes us more honest. For us Indians, educated under
a system which was set in place by a British Viceroy, I reckon we
haven't changed it much till now…
What does that give us in terms of mental models and frames of
references?
1. The collective unconciousness of our pan-Indian culture…which
is itself such an amorphous thing … 
2. The frames that our western education gives us…for those of us
who studied in "convent" colleges this manifests as an "alien"
thought over the unconscious, which we internalise.
3. The frames that popular culture gives us as we grow up, which is
very American in nature compared to 2. which is Anglo-Saxon in
ethos..
Any wonder why the urban Indian experiences such an "alien-nation"
(pun intended ;0)
