At my current job, I was actually told that some data, which was clearly data, could not be entered into the database. I knew I was just being patronized. If things can be labeled they can be entered. The "data" was regarding proceedures. I was told we could not enter it because the procedure number constantly changed. Now if the data describes a proceedure that can be described, how can that be true?

I would love to get into a KM job. Part of the problem, in my humble opinion, is to actually bridge the gap between the real need of it and "showing them". No track exists because the real area where it lies is constantly in a state of change. The area is also obscured by the increasing rate of change. What works today will be bettered by what come next.

The rate of change often puts the cart in front of the horse. Not only are the positions hard to define, they are just as tough to sell.

Ingo Forstenlechner writes an interesting post about the not so formal KM job track. He links over to Jack Vinson, who asks: Is there a KM job track? The short... [Read More]