Thinking about Knowledge Learning and Wisdom has recently been published by AKRI ltd.
The book was started in 2004 and completed in 2009.
Thinking about Knowledge Learning and Wisdom is a book concerned with understanding what those concepts can actually mean within the context of human society and work. Whilst the author offers clear and informed opinion about these important concepts, the main aim of the book is to encourage the reader to come to their own views and their own personal understanding about what the terms mean to them and what value they are in our society.
The book starts with a picture of how the author came to his views and in doing so, acquired experience from specific and detailed work in several knowledge domains. Each of the major concepts of the book are discussed in detail and openly so that the reader can challenge the basis of the authors beliefs at any stage and in doing so, help to consolidate their own beliefs.
A major component of the book is a comprehensive discussion of the ideas of Knowledge Structure Mapping . This is a method that has been used successfully in many organisations over many years, to study that part of a knowledge resource which is held and applied by people. In fact, the book really concludes that it is people and not books or computer systems or even the internet which is the holder of all knowledge. The in depth explanation of Knowledge Structure Mapping supplements the book and also adds a very practical approach to applied knowledge and its study.
This book should be of considerable interest to all those working in a knowledge or knowledge related field. It is likely to be of interest to those involved in education and business management. Anyone with a general interest in Knowledge, Learning and Wisdom may also wish to consider looking at this book.
A valuable new approach to knowledge growth and risk reduction analysis has been implemented within the Knowledge Structure Mapping method and the associated tool KST.
An organisation benefiting from the use of the KSM knowledge study approach can now easily add knowledge growth (and risk reduction) monitoring to that capability. This is an important new development for project management and knowledge management. For more information please look at the dedicated page on the AKRI Ltd web site that discusses the knowledge growth monitoring capability.
Knowledge Structure Mapping is a method for visualising a company knowledge resource in order to identify crucial strengths and weaknesses.
The Research Section of the site features a wealth of information about KSM including : A Guide to KSM, details about the Structural Knowledge Analysis Tool used for eliciting and analysing organisational knowledge maps and the KSM methodology.
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KSM Training packages are now available. Find out about study options...
The Knowledge Study method using Knowledge Structure Mapping (KSM) is constantly evolving. It has now greatly improved in the areas of:
The tool used when carrying out a Knowledsge Study (the Knowledge Study Tool KST) can now export a web resource that contains all of the information elicited during the study and a great deal of derived analytical information following a completed study. The web resource can form a permanent record of a study, a reference point for the study, a focus for knowledge development and an information dissemination tool.