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Some interesting quotes today: Metadata is the stuff you know. Data is the stuff you are looking for. -WeinbergerInformation is the answer to the question asked. -Goldratt
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.
Paolina Martin provides an interesting history lesson in "wisdom," making a connection to emotional intelligence that I hadn't considered previously.
At today's open house for Dominican's Center for Knowledge Management, Christina Stoll described a new analogy for knowledge management: a jigsaw puzzle.
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.
Malcolm Ryder has written a thoughtful piece on "Just what's so manageable about Knowledge Management?"
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.
Ian Glendinning of Psybertron comments on my recent find of the WIKID Power hierarchy that adds Intelligence, Wisdom and Power to the usual Data-Information-Knowledge lineup. The D-I-K hierarchy is limited by the view of bits-of-stuff, whereas our full understanding of these higher properties ecompasses much more than bits: experience, culture, context. Attempting to break everything into bits typically loses the meaning of the whole. As Ian suggests, Power is orthogonal to all of these elements.