Comments on: Handbags at dawn — defining the damned thing http://magia3e.wordpress.com/2008/01/04/handbags-at-dawn-defining-the-damned-thing/ ...what's inside my head? Sun, 06 Jul 2008 20:09:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU By: “To Gov 2.0 or not to Gov 2.0″ — that is the question « Matt’s Musings http://magia3e.wordpress.com/2008/01/04/handbags-at-dawn-defining-the-damned-thing/#comment-13318 “To Gov 2.0 or not to Gov 2.0″ — that is the question « Matt’s Musings Fri, 11 Jan 2008 01:10:19 +0000 http://magia3e.wordpress.com/2008/01/04/handbags-at-dawn-defining-the-damned-thing/#comment-13318 [...] Suarez, knowledge management specialist for IBM, suggests that supporting knowledge work is a good way to proceed: We should go instead for those just-in-time education snippets that [...] [...] Suarez, knowledge management specialist for IBM, suggests that supporting knowledge work is a good way to proceed: We should go instead for those just-in-time education snippets that [...]

]]> By: thoughtglue » And the “what is a knowledge worker” battle continues to rage http://magia3e.wordpress.com/2008/01/04/handbags-at-dawn-defining-the-damned-thing/#comment-12882 thoughtglue » And the “what is a knowledge worker” battle continues to rage Sun, 06 Jan 2008 12:57:34 +0000 http://magia3e.wordpress.com/2008/01/04/handbags-at-dawn-defining-the-damned-thing/#comment-12882 [...] you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!I’ve read Matthew’s response to Shawn’s response to Matthew’s response to Shawn’s original post. Plus Dave [...] [...] you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!I’ve read Matthew’s response to Shawn’s response to Matthew’s response to Shawn’s original post. Plus Dave [...]

]]> By: Lee http://magia3e.wordpress.com/2008/01/04/handbags-at-dawn-defining-the-damned-thing/#comment-12793 Lee Sat, 05 Jan 2008 06:25:14 +0000 http://magia3e.wordpress.com/2008/01/04/handbags-at-dawn-defining-the-damned-thing/#comment-12793 Hey Matt, I've been lurking in the background for a while now watching this debate unfold. A year ago I'd never heard of KM, but since May I've been working in a rather large KM department at SAP and have really gotten into the subject matter. What's a little frustrating to me is that there is such a thing as Knowledge Management but that there isn't a consensus on what it really is. This discussion on knowledge work is the same. Ambiguity may not always be a bad thing, but lately I've been thinking: is the KM umbrella (and by extension, knowledge work) just too broad to be meaningful? To add on to that, what is the relationship between KM and "knowledge work"? The way I've thought of knowledge work is work that doesn't directly and/or indirectly involve creating anything tangible - no product of some sort in other words. Is that just me being grossly uninformed? Hey Matt, I’ve been lurking in the background for a while now watching this debate unfold. A year ago I’d never heard of KM, but since May I’ve been working in a rather large KM department at SAP and have really gotten into the subject matter.

What’s a little frustrating to me is that there is such a thing as Knowledge Management but that there isn’t a consensus on what it really is. This discussion on knowledge work is the same. Ambiguity may not always be a bad thing, but lately I’ve been thinking: is the KM umbrella (and by extension, knowledge work) just too broad to be meaningful? To add on to that, what is the relationship between KM and “knowledge work”?

The way I’ve thought of knowledge work is work that doesn’t directly and/or indirectly involve creating anything tangible - no product of some sort in other words. Is that just me being grossly uninformed?

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