Results tagged “dikw” from Knowledge Jolt with Jack

When we talk of D-I-K, the Ice-Water-Steam analogy may be useful. Thanks to the Act-KM mailing list.

Paolina Martin provides an interesting history lesson in "wisdom," making a connection to emotional intelligence that I hadn't considered previously.

One of my readers, Andrew Mitchell, was inspired by my "Making sense of D-I-K-W" that he has come up with his own model for the data-information-knowledge component.

In the knowledge management world, a common starting point is discussion of "hierarchy" of data-information-knowledge. But this model is severely limited. David Snowden has discovered another way to look at this, and I take a stab at drawing it another way.

At today's open house for Dominican's Center for Knowledge Management, Christina Stoll described a new analogy for knowledge management: a jigsaw puzzle.

Dale H. Emery defines Information as "Data that reduces uncertainty." I particularly like the link to uncertainty because most people don't like dealing with uncertainty in making decisions.

Malcolm Ryder has written a thoughtful piece on "Just what's so manageable about Knowledge Management?"

Reference: Joining Dots has a good entry on the familiar question of "what is knowledge." JD has adds "cleverness" to the mixture of data, information, knowledge and wisdom.

Review of an article on noetic prisms by Diarmuid Pigott and Valerie Hobbs with a particular connection to the data-information-knowledge-wisdom hierarchy.

Dave Pollard lays out a process of how we learn in "How we learn and Why we don't." This - particularly Dave's graphic - reminds me of something I read earlier that had to do with how the knowledge-information-data cycle works within our brains.

I had an interesting email conversation from a master's student who is writing a thesis on "Knowledge Management Approach for Curriculum Management" in Indonesia.

Ian Glendinning of Psybertron comments on my recent find of the WIKID Power hierarchy that adds Intelligence, Wisdom and Power to the usual Data-Information-Knowledge lineup. The D-I-K hierarchy is limited by the view of bits-of-stuff, whereas our full understanding of these higher properties ecompasses much more than bits: experience, culture, context. Attempting to break everything into bits typically loses the meaning of the whole. As Ian suggests, Power is orthogonal to all of these elements.