Comments for Nickols: Knowledge Work is a Myth

Comment from Bill French on 2004-01-28

2004-01-28T17:55:35Z

Perhaps this is accurate, but there _are_ specific differences between information workers that consume knowledge in the process of doing something and those that consume knowledge for the sole purpose of fabricating yet additional (or higher forms of) knowledge. A good example - an analyst that reads three Weblog posts, five newspaper articles, and two production reports to make a single annotation that references these sources. The annotation itself is a form of knowledge construction - something that not every information worker is tasked with.

In both cases, the knowledge 'consumers' are provided an added capacity to act by virtue of their informatio diets.

Can a Blog Post Contain Knowledge?
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Comment from Jack Vinson on 2004-01-28

2004-01-28T18:25:54Z

I agree with Bill's comment, and I think Nikols does too. His other article on the Challenge of Managing KW goes into this in more detail. Management processes need to be different depending on the type of work being done -- and the product of that work.

Comment from loans on 2005-01-02

2005-01-02T13:57:16Z

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2006-04-13T20:40:23Z

In my knowledge management class last night, we covered the issue of knowledge work from many different angles. One of the topics that came up in our readings was a distinction between work and working (and workers). Lilia Efimova has just written som... [Read More]