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Knowledge in and out

wp-1456109997332.jpgIn my last post I mused about employer policies concerning training and learning of employees. I would like to use this as an introduction to a series of postings related to knowledge management and innovation in firms. Much has been written and discussed about the creation and finding of knowledge. From a practical point of view and in philosophy, which discusses these topics as epistemology. In this first installment I would like to give an overview of what’s ahead and how I would like to structure my texts.

My first approach was to put all of this in two or three postings. Since this is way too much text to be read comfortably I will divide the topics in a more or less natural way like this:

  1. The idea of human capital in contrast to human resources
  2. Philosophy and theory of knowledge, from information via knowledge to innovation
  3. Flow of knowledge in the firm and exchange with external resources
  4. Knowledge management from a social network point of view
  5. Challenges for human resources departments concerning knowledge management
  6. Impediments for knowledge creation and usage (e.g. Not-Invented-Here-Syndrome, NIH)
  7. The state of open innovation
  8. Simulation of knowledge flow and NIH using cellular automata

What do you think? Interested? Is something missing? Should I reorder the topics? Let me know!

(Picture by Tommy Ellis CC BY-ND 2.0, https://www.flickr.com/photos/tommyellis/6326877778/)

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