http://www.theknowledgeeconomist.com/blog George Kondrach's Blog Mon, 21 Aug 2006 14:40:26 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I was engaged for several weeks on a commercial document publishing project, which exhibited the normal elements of “critical schedule, high complexity, limited budget, conflicting technologies, and parochial infighting”. They are normal elements; they are not necessarily handled well in most projects. Which got me thinking and philosophizing…. Why is success ... http://www.theknowledgeeconomist.com/blog/management/by-author01/success-is-unnatural/ 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! Everyone I talked with reminded me how ... http://www.theknowledgeeconomist.com/blog/personal/by-author01/class-of-71/ 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 ... http://www.theknowledgeeconomist.com/blog/general/by-author01/knowledge-cores/ 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 ... http://www.theknowledgeeconomist.com/blog/general/by-author01/19/ Last post’s first pillar of knowledge management may appear only to be relevant to authors, and therefore to publishing organizations that control their own creation phase of their own complete content supply chain. In fact, I’ve been told that to adopt Pillar One is contrary to traditional and conventional wisdom ... http://www.theknowledgeeconomist.com/blog/general/by-author01/more-than-just-writing/ How is re-engineering documents in XML a pillar of knowledge management? Let’s revisit both, using straightforward models, possibly idealized, based on my experience and assumptions. XML markup is meta-data which is topical, explicit, specific, precise, and unambiguous, used to describe document content. Typographical clues are meta-data which is visual, implicit, general, ... http://www.theknowledgeeconomist.com/blog/general/by-author01/documents-and-knowledge-management/ I was thinking about a post topic when I noticed it was XML’s 10th birthday, which makes it also SGML’s 20th birthday. I’d been involved with SGML since 1989 (when it was a toddler). By 1994, I had several staff who would help to conceive XML, then participate in its ... http://www.theknowledgeeconomist.com/blog/general/by-author01/xml-and-knowledge-economics/