Results tagged “analogy” from Knowledge Jolt with Jack

Mary's KM and the Pantyhose Fallacy from last week strikes a humorous realization for me. The Pantyhose Fallcy? "one size fits all."

When we talk of D-I-K, the Ice-Water-Steam analogy may be useful. Thanks to the Act-KM mailing list.

Someone on the ActKM mailing list suggested that KM was like paining - it is seen as important, but there are always plumbing emergencies that get the urgent dollars instead.

In a recent post Ken Nordan commented with an entertaining take on the silo mentality. We have stretched the analogy some more: vermin, explosions and hotels. Care to add yours?

One of my students wrote a curious piece last week on "Incongruent Arithmetic." Getting divorced is an example of addition by subtraction. And continuing through the article had me thinking that this really makes sense.

Nimmy at "Aa..ha! [Thinking Inside the Blog!]" has an entertaining Analogy for KM.

At today's open house for Dominican's Center for Knowledge Management, Christina Stoll described a new analogy for knowledge management: a jigsaw puzzle.