haha…. the Welsh commenting on knowledge management, a bit like texans commenting on Peace Treaty’s. But true to my stereotype…I am a KM novice… I know nothing about it really apart from the abbreviation, which I will continue to bandy about like I know what I am talking about. It feels so very good to be “current”.
http://guide.darwinmag.com/technology/enterprise/knowledge/index.html
Saw this on a link on the right hand side of the page. It was interesting to replace the corporate audience that the author had intended, with the NGO model that I am involved with. It takes me back to anthropology lessons in college; from just digesting that, i’m sure that there must be a huge natural overlap between the methods employed in documenting societal culture and managing corporate knowledge (using KM Methodology).
I wonder, does anthropology provide a classical framework from which to attribute value the information that we are trying to record?
Since the task set out is essentially anthropology via a web browser… I am starting to wonder if the model I am searching for exists within a mixture of the two disciplines?
So off to google I pop and viola! here I find some quite interesting text on the prevalence of the technology anthropologist
This really is a fantastic article that starts to answer a lot of questions that exist within the scope of the project, such as the validity of the information pertained and gathered. Something the anthropological model has already agreed upon (see extract below). This seems true for the evolution of the corporate KM system too. Validity of information being recorded is a huge sticking point for projects, according to the darwinmag article.
“I find an anthropological approach particularly useful in the realm of technology for a couple of reasons. First, technology is too dynamic for a lot of other research approaches. Along a similar line, organizational research is not a place where you get to do controlled experiments. It’s either impractical or unethical (sometimes both). That leaves you with observational techniques of one sort or another. One advantage of ethnographic/anthropological approaches is that they explicitly recognize that the anthropologist/observer is part of the system. “
Jim McGee
So I think my next stop will be studying the developent of the technology anthropologist (using google!).