Knowledge management is the conscious process of defining, structuring, retaining and sharing the knowledge and experience of employees within an organization.
Perhaps most importantly, the new investment in inconspicuous consumption reproduces privilege in a way that previous conspicuous consumption could not. Knowing which New Yorker articles to reference or what small talk to engage in at the local farmers' market enables and displays the acquisition of cultural capital, thereby providing entry into social networks that, in turn, help to pave the way to elite jobs, key social and professional contacts, and private schools. In short, inconspicuous consumption confers social mobility.
Some philosophers have argued that, despite widespread intuitions to the contrary, knowledge is not merely a matter of representation but also of construction, and that truth cannot be completely detached from human needs and interests. John Dewey, for example, argued that the object of knowledge is the product of enquiry and not something that exists independently of that enquiry. But this can't be right. After all, scientists discovered DNA, distant planets and gravity, they did not create them. Facts are facts. Any other view seems disastrous, from the vague assertion that we all create our own truth to the Nietzschean claim that it's interpretations all the way down. Without a shared target that we all aim at getting right, rational discussion is no longer possible. So what were these philosophers getting at, exactly?
A company's knowledge management strategy should reflect its competitive strategy ... companies that isolate knowledge management risk losing its benefits ...
The conversion between data and information is efficiently handled through information technologies, but IT is a poor substitute for converting information into knowledge. The conversion between information and knowledge is best accomplished through social actors, but social actors are slow in converting data to information.
... it is still important to emphasize that data, information, and knowledge are not interchangeable concepts. Organizational success and failure can often depend on knowing which of them you need, which you have, and what you can and can't do with each. Understanding what those three things are and how you get from one to another is essential to doing knowledge work successfully.
Cesária Évora and a quote about her from Songbar
The song, meaning 'longing', is inspired by emigrant workers who leave Cape Verde to look back at their homeland with nostalgia, and with yearning for loved one, but as well as the melody, it is the perfect pace, and the, gradually falling, lilting beauty of Evora's voice that truly brings out such emotions.
Almost two-thirds of the million Cape Verdeans alive live abroad.
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