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I have just added this page. Please help expanding this fascinating topic. Cyr S. ( talk) 06:08, 23 November 2007 (UTC)
I have added tags to let editors know that this page should be expanded. Cyr S. ( talk) 06:14, 23 November 2007 (UTC)
I reformatted all references. Cyr S. ( talk) 17:44, 23 November 2007 (UTC)
Given the central importance of this topic to the "knowledge age" we've clearly entered, actually continued, what are the important topics for the outline of this page. I was surprised, knowing how important sharing is to the topic of knowledge in general, to find so little on the subject here. I would propose that, in addition to talking about the intellectual property aspects restricting the sharing of knowledge, we also discuss a proper sense of "enlightened self-interest" and how knowledge sharing is key to moving society along in constructive ways. All of us, at times, forget that we stand on the shoulders of countless and almost totally nameless others in having reached the condition we are in and that it was through the sharing of knowledge through stories and lessons learned that we have come to know more, without qualifying what "more" means, than our preceding generations. All of the technologies and cool toys are nice, but they are relatively useless unless we use them to build from. The conversion that is taking place in this "Internet age", I believe, is just a transition in tool usage, a flat spot in the upward progress that preceded this age. Once we all have a better sense of the tools, we will hopefully return to the business at hand, namely knowledge sharing and building. Isn't this idea what this article is really about? Jb19012 ( talk) 15:10, 29 November 2009 (UTC)
I reject the proposed delation under the argument that the references seem over-general. Keep in mind that the article is still a stub within the business project. Although the treatment of the issues around knowledge sharing is relatively new in the literature, numerous articles and book have talked about it. It has been recognized as one of the biggest challenge in knowledge management. See Cabrera & Cabrera (2002)Knowledge-sharing Dilemmas, Bock et al. (2005) Behavioral Intention formation in Knowledge Sharing, Bock & Kim(2002) Breaking the myths of rewards:a exploratory study of attitudes about Knowledge Sharing, Bartol & Srivastava (2002) Encouraging knowledge sharing: The role of organizational reward systems, Constant, Kiesler, and Sproull (1994) What's Mine Is Ours, or Is It? A Study of Attitudes about Information Sharing, and many more inportant publications. I am currently preparing on the side an expension plan for the article. Cyr S. ( talk) 07:03, 25 November 2007 (UTC)
Reject the proposed deletion. Do people even bother to Google a term before they propose deletion these days? The search term "knowledge sharing" gets over 3 million hits! 142.162.90.165 ( talk) 17:56, 23 July 2008 (UTC)
Biology and bioinspired evolutionary computing considers sexual recombination as a means to distribute the good/useful solutions, the knowledge among population. It is a mechanism to advance the biological culture evolution. When individual discovers a good feature, the only way to spread it in the population is the recombination. Otherwise, you are stuck at the clonal interference (situation where you cannot communicate information across the companies). Now, we are said that pointing this out is undoubtful obscuring and vandalism. And it hides this fact in order to "deobscure". IMO, obscuring is hiding the things that put everything into the order, creating vaguesness and chaos. How do you call the situation when something is called its opposite and recover the normal order? -- Javalenok ( talk) 12:40, 3 April 2015 (UTC)
"Knowledge Sharing is an activity through which knowledge (i.e., information, skills, or expertise) is exchanged"
You contrive artificial difference between information and knowledge and then use it to argue that relating biological sharing is obscuring in this context. That is obscuration. Categorical declaration of synonyms mean different things is obscuration. Saying "it is obscuring at best" implies the worse thing, vandalism at worst. The "culture" means that we evolve something by sharing ideas/information/solutions/knowledge/good features. Same happens in the biology. That is what I am saying. Sexual recombination (of best parents) in biology = simple communication in our knowledge sphere. We, human, have got the neural network and speech -- another evolutionary mechanism, which can evolve (improve the culture) separately from biology (the genes). In the neural sphere you evolve pure ideas. You produce a better idea by combining your concepts with solutions discovered by other entities. You share the ideas for improving your culture. This is exactly what sex does in biology. I do not claim any sociobiology concept or any other disputable theory. I link undoubtful clearly related concept. But it defenitely confirmed/exploited by the bioinformatics. Saying that "mechanisms of knowledge transfer in these two spheres have nothing in common" and "relating them is obscuring" is unacceptable. -- Javalenok ( talk) 10:45, 6 April 2015 (UTC)
Ignoring the personal attacks;to respond (i) I referenced two books in the threat above (ii) if they are in the thread they do not need to specifically addressed to you (iii) the reference was removed because it does not relate to the subject matter of the page ---- Snowded TALK 20:04, 11 April 2015 (UTC)
Knowledge mobilization is basically about sharing, only in a more bombastic way. It adds nothing to the principles. Questions? Comments? Suggestions? -- Kku ( talk) 11:55, 17 May 2019 (UTC)
Disagree ---
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This have been no contributions on this for some time and we three people in favour and one who has just said 'disagree'. So if there are no objections I will close this and redirect ----- Snowded TALK 10:44, 23 June 2020 (UTC)
Aside: this is the first time I've contributed to a talk page in some time... so please let me know any Wikipedia and Wikipedian norms I have inadvertently contravened.
I have had several in-person discussions with the authors of a number of sources in the existing article, and from these conversations, there appears to be a fundamental part of the context for Knowledge Mobilization missing from the article at present. This context provides a clear basis for separating out Knowledge Mobilization from the more general knowledge sharing.
In brief: In the natural sciences there are well-established and sophisticated institutions, funders and processes to take knowledge generated and move it from the lab into use - from research to market. This is referred to as " Technology Transfer". Most governments and most research institutions have capabilities to ensure the effective, efficient and profitable transfer of new knowledge from labs, through innovation and invention, to commercial products in the market.
However, as I understand it, until the concepts of Knowledge Mobilization was conceived, there was no clearly labelled analogous process for knowledge generated from the Social Sciences.
To give some handy labels, I usually say that innovations driven from new knowledge from natural science research is 'what' innovation, whereas innovations driven from new knowledge from the social sciences is 'how' innovation.
This gap in the capabilities to move new social science and humanities knowledge from research to practices is significant. Why? It is well understood (can provide citations) that there is far more scope for management innovation than technology innovation. Fundamentally this is because the former is only limited by human culture and creativity, where-as the latter is subject to the 'hard' limits of physics, chemistry, biology and ecoology.
Plus, in practice, many / most 'what' innovations don't succeed in the market without corresponding 'how' innovations. Consider how with many new products (what innovations) until new business models are created (how innovations) there isn't a commercially viable opportunity (again can provide citations).
Consider a business school professor ho has conducted research whose results (the new knowledge) suggest a way for a manager to do something far more efficiently and effectively than was previously possible. Note this is not based on the application of technology, but some way of thinking or interacting with others. Until the concept of Knowledge Mobilization, there hasn't even been a label to describe the steps required to bring new organizational knowledge to market as a 'management innovation'. Hence it has been impossible any institutional or government support this process, nor indeed has there been a label for the processor to use to ask for help. My personal observation is that the vast majority of management innovations have been brought to market through serendipitous occurrence.
Examples:
(1) Consider the unlikely journey of the Total Quality Management innovations, many originated by Dr. Edwards Demming, from Japan back to the USA and hence globally. Although governments did get involved at points on this journey there was certainly no institutional structure for Dr. Demming to leverage then or now.
(2) Consider, more recently, Dr. Alex Osterwalder and his research that suggested a better way to design and test business models. There was no institutional nor government support to bring this new knowledge to market. The investment and risk were all born by Dr. Osterwalder. And yet the efficiency and effectiveness benefits of the management innovation created based on his research has been significant for both entrepreneurs and established business leaders world-wide (and hence to enterprises and economies). The management innovation created by Dr. Osterwalder is the Business Model Canvas - a visual tool for co-designing and testing business models. (can provide citations).
So for all these reasons, while the current article could be improved to make the contrast to Technology Transfer clear, this article is describing something different from 'knowledge sharing'. It is describing the nascent institutions, funders and processes to bring social science research to market.
The article does introduce the current state of these institutions, although I think this could be improved. For example, the Canadian Federal Government funder of social science and humanities research (SSHRC), now requires that grant applications include a section called 'knowledge mobilization' to start to describe how the results of the research will be made useful - i.e. how will the tax-payer who is the ultimate funder of the research, benefit.
Aside: this is the first time I've contributed to a talk page in some time... so please let me know any Wikipedia and Wikipedian norms I have inadvertently contravened.
-- Aupward ( talk) 22:57, 16 April 2020 (UTC)
-- Dear colleagues. I wish to suggest a major change in the content of this page. I am part of the KMGN- A foundation that unites Knowledge Management practitioners from 12 countries. One of our objectives is to help the public understand better what knowledge management is and how it can help them in life. One of the initiatives involved is to refine knowledge management related terms, so they are not addressed to experts rather to the public- written in a practical way, so that people 1) understand 2) know how to take it further to implementation. Each term is written by one member, audited and commented by another, then presented to a typical user (not a KMer) observing if indeed it is understood and gives him/her practical added value. One of the main terms in this discipline is knowledge sharing. So, yes, there is a knowledge flow, and there is tacit and explicit knowledge, but these are probably, as we learned less important when we adrees the public (and WIKIPEDIA is for them- not for us the experts). We suggested some changes that can be viewed through the history ( https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Knowledge_sharing&diff=964039168&oldid=964026845). Please respond- so we can proceed serving this important objective Morialevy ( talk) 09:59, 23 June 2020 (UTC)
I again am suggesting to update this page: It contains a lot information, yet less serves the Wikipedia main's audience: The public. The updates suggested up till now were all rejected again and again by one editor. We declare that we will not include original research or synthesis, and if so by mistake- the specific suggestions of the kind of course can be removed. The updates are proposed after a thorough joined process and thoghts of KM practicioners worldwide (KMGN) and validated to be easy to understand and worthwhile to readd by external typical users. Our aim is to better serve the Wikipedia objectives, being a encyclopedia for the public. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Morialevy ( talk • contribs) 03:52, 15 July 2020 (UTC)
We (members of this team trying to suggest changes) have read the policy. We came with a process that will help us to be sure that we indeed write objextive, well based, adding value, WIKIPEDIA compliant suggestions in the first place. We wish to improve the content of this page so it will be more relevant and easier to understand to the public, which is its audience, not to experts like yourself. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Morialevy ( talk • contribs) 09:22, 15 July 2020 (UTC)