CMS Hardtalk

Today I was at a small come together at Videndanmark (a network of people dealing with Knowledge Management/Leadership in Denmark).

Usually I hate going to seminars but I had to meet Pruzak when he visited Denmark/Copenhagen today.

I was pleasantly surprised to discover that the meeting was a dialogue. No Power points. As he said "Power point is the enemy of learning". 

Some people was disappointed because he didn’t talk about how the tools to share knowledge (e.g. Wiki’s, Blogs, CMS etc.) has effected the "Social" worker. I was glad that we had a good discussion about the broader perspectives and aspects of Knowledge.

My notes from the meeting:

Whats going on? The monopoly of knowledge has disappeared, and countries and minor companies now know how to deal with their own knowledge. They are proud of doing it their way and the competition is now much more geographical spread than 20-30 years ago. Nice to look back in history to get a little perspective once in a while.

Even though the massive amount of information it is even harder to know about a subject because more people publish information about it.

"The Value of information goes down while the value of non-information goes up"

"Concentrate on the processes/products that can’t be done by an algorithm or the Chinese" " Don’t compete with machines or the Chinese - You will loose!"

"Watching television is poor investment - you will probably forget it again"

"Bachelors don’ know they have just acquired information"

"In lack of the word ‘Knowledge’ we would probably use the word ‘Meaning’."

"Statistics: 10-15 years to acquire knowledge within a subject."

"Learning is by doing."

Audience: " You only remember what you do yourself".

"Don’t get older - there’s nothing in it"

"Knowledge is social"

"The armies in europe is actually using a sort of Lean to build a better combat machine" 

"Benchmarking is bullshit"

"Reality and environmet change because the tools (e.g. IT) change"

"Competitive advantage of knowledge: Scan globally - adapt locally"