Results tagged “dikw” from Knowledge Jolt with Jack
I know I have written about the data-information-knowledge hierarchy in the past. Many people still use it as a metaphor, but now it seems that it has outlived its usefulness. I came across DIKW again, so I thought I would say a little something.
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Chris Grams writes "Three tips for escaping the creativity peloton without giving up on collaboration" and Robert Scoble gives us "Coming soon: the disruptive molecular age of information." Both contain interesting metaphors.
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When we talk of D-I-K, the Ice-Water-Steam analogy may be useful. Thanks to the Act-KM mailing list.
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Paolina Martin provides an interesting history lesson in "wisdom," making a connection to emotional intelligence that I hadn't considered previously.
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One of my readers, Andrew Mitchell, was inspired by my "Making sense of D-I-K-W" that he has come up with his own model for the data-information-knowledge component.
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In the knowledge management world, a common starting point is discussion of "hierarchy" of data-information-knowledge. But this model is severely limited. David Snowden has discovered another way to look at this, and I take a stab at drawing it another way.
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At today's open house for Dominican's Center for Knowledge Management, Christina Stoll described a new analogy for knowledge management: a jigsaw puzzle.
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Dale H. Emery defines Information as "Data that reduces uncertainty." I particularly like the link to uncertainty because most people don't like dealing with uncertainty in making decisions.
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Malcolm Ryder has written a thoughtful piece on "Just what's so manageable about Knowledge Management?"
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Reference: Joining Dots has a good entry on the familiar question of "what is knowledge." JD has adds "cleverness" to the mixture of data, information, knowledge and wisdom.
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Review of an article on noetic prisms by Diarmuid Pigott and Valerie Hobbs with a particular connection to the data-information-knowledge-wisdom hierarchy.
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Dave Pollard lays out a process of how we learn in "How we learn and Why we don't." This - particularly Dave's graphic - reminds me of something I read earlier that had to do with how the knowledge-information-data cycle works within our brains.
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