PKM: Me, Others, Ideas
Lilia Efimova is back to thinking about personal knowledge management with a new drawing that attempts to bring some ideas together. Personal KM model: new version drafted.
One of the ideas behind Personal KM is that a holistic view that it will help me operate better in my groups - whether that group is within a company; amongst my clients; amongst professional colleagues; or other collections of people.
I like Lilia's reference to awareness as a key component of this model. Awareness is all about my (and the groups') capability to make connections across all the "stuff" that makes up me. Most of that is built inside, but there are plenty of artifacts that help me connect to what I know. An idea behind PKM is to help remind me of what I know - either by presenting some artifact or by building mechanisms by which I can use what I have more effectively in my interactions with others.
I'm not completely sure of this either. Trying to blend "I want to be more efficient" with the reality of needing to be effective as a group is difficult to discuss under one topic. But I sense that they are connected.
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For me, personal KM is focused on helping an individual be more effective with an aim to enabling them to work better themselves, in groups and in corporations. I see "regular" KM (sometimes referred to as Corporate KM) as being focused on enabling the corporation to be more effective by "recording" and making available what its people know.
I know this is a gross simplification, but I think that gets at some of the PKM ideas. Many people in the chain of writers don't necessarily see there being a difference, but it is the focus that is important.
The nice thing about PKM is that the "what's in it for me" factor is taken care of immediately, so you get quicker individual buy-in. The difficult thing is how do you show a traditional manager that individual employee effectiveness necessarily leads to better organizational effectiveness. Of course, that traditional manager may not get regular KM either.
The failure is not (necessarily) in the enterprise system or the enterprise wide goals, but not taking into account the needs/wants of the individuals that make up the organization. Read More
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Jack - Can you provide a concise definition of PKM and how it differs from "regular" KM? I have seen that there is some controvesary around this issue. I think I support the notion of PKM but want to make sure I understand how the term is being used in the dialogue going on. Thanks, Bill Ives