Project Management

To Infinity and Beyond!

George Ball
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My dear, esteemed gantthead editor, Erin, has just had a baby boy, Roman Louis DeCaprio, born Wednesday, February 13th. Since then there have been a number of e-mails going back and forth amongst us gantthead department heads speculating about young Roman's future; everything from astronaut (space ranger would be better), to actor/director (although he is no relation to that other DiCaprio); to King of the World (sorry, I couldn't resist), or even, dare we dream, knowledge manager.

 

Okay, maybe not the latter. But Roman's birth did get me to thinking again about the incredible five-part series The Secret Life of the Brain that recently aired on PBS. As thousands of newborns do every day, he is now embarking on what must certainly be the most incredible knowledge management journey of all, the one that we're all on from the moment we're born until the moment we breathe our last (and possibly beyond that, but I'll have to wait until I pass through that special portal before I can tell you definitively).

 

Which (for me) again begs the question: what is knowledge management? Is it best described as a process--capture [information and data], evaluate, synthesize, organize, distribute and apply--in order to achieve one or more action objectives: develop competency (i.e., training), innovate, respond (to emerging calls for action) and increase productivity? I'm…


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