Mar 9 2010

Facebook as a Collaborative Knowledge Management System

    What is Collaborative Knowledge Management?

    To answer this question we need to first look at what is Knowledge and then think about how we as individuals, organizations and communities use and manage knowledge. First lets look at the definition of Knowledge.

    Knowledge is defined by the Oxford English Dictionary as (i) expertise, and skills acquired by a person through experience or education; the theoretical or practical understanding of a subject, (ii) what is known in a particular field or in total; facts and information or (iii) awareness or familiarity gained by experience of a fact or situation. Philosophical debates in general start with Plato’s formulation of knowledge as “justified true belief”. There is however no single agreed definition of knowledge presently, nor any prospect of one, and there remain numerous competing theories. Wikipedia

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    Dec 28 2009

    Thinking About Dashboard Design 1

      One of the benefits that technology has brought to business is the ability to process and present information quickly to individuals or teams to support the decision making process. To allow this to be created several things have to be understood first:

      • An Understanding of the Quantitative Data
      • Defined KPI’s for each element of the business (in-line with the business objectives)
      • Understanding of the relationships between the information
      • Are there any relevant external benchmarks?
      • The information requirements of each user.
      • The base data available that is connected to each entity (product, region, individual ….)

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