I’ve been directly involved in knowledge management — the science of collecting, sharing and leveraging knowledge — for nearly ten years, and indirectly much longer. Knowledge management, or more simply KM, is often unknown outside of the organizations who practice it. Sometimes KM is disguised with a different moniker — knowledge sharing, collaboration, team rooms, Enterprise 2.0 and so on. And among those who do practice KM, there is often a misperception that KM is a tool — a software solution.
The reality is that even after ten years of revolutionary KM, it’s still primarily about connecting people. Cutting through the digital noise and making a connection with that person whose expertise intersects with my need.
Now for the next ten years. How do you see knowledge sharing changing between now and the year 2020?
THE FUTURE OF KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT WILL BE BIO-NATURE APPROACH
“WE ARE KM-REGULATED BY NATURE vice-versa BY NATURE WE ARE KM MODEL” -http://mobeeknowledge.ning.com/forum/topics/we-are-kmregulated-by-nature is our basic postulate regarding the future of KM
We developed Human System Biology-based KM (HSBKM) model framework, comprising three boundaries of KM regarding their interface with the environment. They are, KM Tools (Techno-based boundary), KM Process Framework (Human Mind-based boundary), and KM Standard Culture & Value (Organizational Learning-based boundary) respectively
Evidence of our judgement showed that KM TOOLS ( Techno tools including Social Media) which is only weighted score 1.0 as value of their “Knowledge with Lower Consciousness (KLC)”, symbolizing human senses or peripheral nerve system as human primary knowing tools to develop “CORPORATE SENSES” , could be leveled up as KM PROCESS FRAMEWORK, be like as Human Tacit Mind or Individual Learning Process behaving as “CORPORATE MIND BRAIN”, with weighted score 3.0 for their value of “Knowledge with Medium Consciousness (KMC)”, symbolizing human central nerve system or mind brain only after KM Tools classified as Web 3.0 and/or Semantic Web including Artificial Intelligence (AI) as well as other advanced smart hi-tech and/or smart Decision Support System to act as human mind brain substitution
But, within context of organizational culture and value with higher complexity environment that needs involvement of “Knowledge with Higher Consciousness (KHC)” and symbolizing our consciousness genomic DNA as “CORPORATE CONSCIOUSNESS DNA” representing as KM STANDARDS (Culture and Value) covering Codified / Explicit Knowledge, Human Social Behavior, Organizational Culture (Learning Organization) with weighted score 5.0, is not possible until recently to be substituted with techno tools whatsoever!
To learn our Human System Biology-based KM (HSBKM) model framework, visit “KM 2.0 Basic Visual Map” – http://bit.ly/bTzgUz and Human System Biology-based KM (HSBKM©) model-based Community of Practice (CoP) – http://bit.ly/g3B4jo and also our Knowledge-base http://www.delicious.com/mobeeknowledge/humansystembiology , http://www.delicious.com/mobeeknowledge/kmtools+kmprocessframework+kmstandards )
Md Santo – Founder SNS http://mobeeknowledge.ning.com
I remember that in the 80-ies we said that in 2050 vinyl records would be replaced by solid state. We call these USB memory sticks now and they are big enough to house a complete CD and recorded vinyl collection. When I looked at the calendar when I started putting my personal collections on USB sticks it was sometime 2008. So that is 42 years early………..
And the rate of change (innovation) is rapidly increasing. Why? Because we have superior communication means and these also get better by the day.
My ISP emailed me a week ago the they had upgraded me from 16Mbps to 24Mbps just because they modernized their equipment (and at no extra cost to me).
And that is the 2nd time in two years.
I have seen the Internet and WWW being “born” and moving from 300bps telephone modems to broadband and Windows 7, And from 8 bit to 64 bit processors (I still own a working Apple II plus- with 140kB floppies and 64KB of memory).
So did this all make us happy campers?
I know it does since we are able to do things that we would never have been able to do. And do them faster. OK- if we screw up the whole world knows that faster too but then the fix can be applied faster too.
Does this make our memory (the hardware in your skull) mellow. Do not think so! We can remember much more if we want to and some institutions are very much aware of that: Wikileaks, Tunesia, Egypt and more to come for sure.
So what does this have to do with the original post? Knowledge Sharing/Management is about people but also about the ITC developments.
The better the ITC stuff is the easier novel methods of knowledge sharing will emerge.
I expect that open wireless connections will be there well within the next 5 years. This will enable a connection anywhere – any place.
This is key for new developments but it may be slowed down a bit by ancient business structures….
Further enhanced smartphones, IPads (and equivalent) and interfaces we cannot even think of will be around the corner (Hey capt. Picard we are not waiting for the 25th century…).
The key is user interface: The more intuitive and faster the better. “Do no make me think” is not only applying to web page design. To be honest: User interfaces are getting a bit better but still tend to be tedious, difficult to use and a bit slow.
The January issue of the Scientific American had a story about gaming and how this would help and stimulate a better understanding in general. These user interfaces are fast, easy to grasp and give just the right amount of data.
This may be one of the major factors for 2050: Make it fun and fast so that people will WANT to use it.
I am convinced that there will also be a shift in copyright thinking towards Intellectual Property Protection (this is already happening now). Protect what is essential for doing business. For the remainder the Itunes model may be leading the way.
All of this will make knowledge sharing a lot easier but that is only part of the picture.
With a dramatic increase of shared knowledge it will be even more important to make sure the knowledge makes sense. This must be assured by experienced people.
As one can see on the Internet much is posted that looks pretty good but is never challenged by peers. We thus still need some kind of method to evaluate and rate knowledge otherwise no one will know if it is safe to use. The moderated Wikipedia is an example how this could work although not failsafe yet.
When (not IF!) search engines and their user interfaces really get to the point where they can easily show the user relationships between data (text and graphics) it will start to be really interesting. There are many developments going on and this is not far away.
When these relations can be viewed the out-of-the-box thinking will explode with many new earlier unknown relations exposed.
With proper validation (must also be shown) people will easily be able to filter out what they want to see.
With a generation growing up now that is fully used to pods, pads, smartphones there will be a huge demand for better connectivity and easier to use appliances.
2050 ?: Better make that 2020 that is probably more realistic.
Knowledge sharing and its continuous management (a.k.a. validation) will be the accelerating factor alone. The spin off will be huge and probably exponential.
If we would stop sharing knowledge now we would probably thrown back in the dark ages.
My strong belief is that knowledge sharing will also be the cure of many of our global problems.
Politicians will solve not them…….
Recent event in North Africa showed the fast/accessible communications and knowledge sharing is here to stay. Governments can try to stop them but will never succeed anymore. Knowledge sharing will be the agent to democracy AND openness everywhere and for all.
Internet + knowledge sharing is here to stay forever and will not make our brains lazy but take tem to new heights we were never able to reach.