I just got back from my high school reunion, Union Endicott High School Class of ‘71. I grew up in Endicott, NY, where I went to school with the same kids for 13 years. Kinda like “That ’70s Show”, except we didn’t have FES!

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For the past few years, the concepts of knowledge cores have been useful to my clients and those other people whom I have influenced. As revealed in the previous post, I use a specific utility definition for the term knowledge, which deals with an explicit asset form of what people know:

Knowledge is a collection of content, contexts, and relationships that expresses topical meaning with sufficient fidelity to meet the consumption needs of a user and/or the processing needs of an agent.

Now we get to talk cores. By considering some of the most essential characteristics of knowledge assets, we address and begin to solve some of most vexing issues of creating and sustaining knowledge economies.

Most definitions of knowledge are not very useful when it actually comes time for people to do something with knowledge, such as its accumulation, sharing, processing, or management. It turns out that the act of well-defining knowledge itself is difficult. So the second pillar of knowledge management is to have a useful working definition of knowledge. Read the rest of this entry »