Knowledge augmentation

What are the key practices that lead to effective knowledge creation, increase awareness and assist teams to leverage their tacit understandings?

Discover and share distinctions & heuristics
Making distinctions, mapping concepts, recognizing subtle signals, proposing new ways to look at things, postulating 'real' differences, grouping and separating, gathering heuristics, looking for analogy, asking questions are fundamental knowledge practices. Naming and relating concepts promotes communication, alignment, highlights gaps, increases group understanding, lifts the level of group discourse and promotes the exchange of meaning. Concepts at work

Engage in collaborative reification (writing)
Meaning, learning, understanding and knowledge emerge and evolve when a group iterates through cycles of explicit codification and tacit assimilation. The duality of reification and participation helps to clarify and empower actions. More

Speed learning cycles - OODA loops
Agility comes from thinking, positioning and acting faster than the competition. Teams need to be conscious of where they are in the OODA loop and the Boyd cycle and should be seeking ways to move toward the next step. Doug Engelbart considered crafting of summaries, sharing of learning and decision of next steps to be the key practice for augmentation of group intelligence

Conduct community inquiry
Use technology to poll experts and outposts, employ enumerative description techniques to gather information and environmental intelligence. Increase group awareness and maintain team cognitive diversity to guard against group think.

Write patterns
Patterns capture experience and proven solutions to common problems. they make explicit tacit knowledge and insights, apply a label to complex articulations promoting knowledge capture and communication. Patterns promote the sharing of ideas and abstractions, helping with knowledge transfer. More

Use patterns
Groups that employ patterns in their conversations are able to spot connections between complex multi-dimensional problems, identify learning gaps and find new solutions though combining and linking known patterns. A pattern language bootstraps group agility, and intelligence. More

There are other knowledge representations that may prove useful such as stories, analogies, metaphors and every group requires a space and climate conducive to knowledge flows to perform. 'Ba'

What then are your favorite practices for knowledge generation?

Comments

[Numit]

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[Ibtihal]

Hello can you help me through sending me the job description of the knowledge organization department in libraries, please.

Best wishes
Ibtihal

[David Locke]

I followed the enumerative descriptions link and then out to POIMS. The author of the POIMS article makes too many mistakes. When he started talking about information overload, I pretty much lost interest in the article.

Early on he talks about expanding managerial focus. Information overload is exactly that an issue that arises when focus is expanded and thus diluted. Geoffrey Moore talks about how managerial focus must be managed in "Linving on the Fault Line." The answer is to focus on less, not more.

Then, he says that thinking converts info to knowledge. No. Think all you want if it is info it isn't going to turn into knowledge, unless you take the tack that all info is explicit knowledge where I would say not so.

I've reached my [patience] threahold, so I couldn't get beyond that. There may be a grain of something beyond the KM speak, marketease, but I couldn't find it.