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A consultant friend worked for an international corporation. For the first three years he worked very hard, introducing lean production techniques into the business. This meant introducing measurement systems, benchmarking methodologies and eliminating waste in many forms through involvement and empowerment. He also made recommendations that led to new information systems whose implementation he led. The arrival of the interest in the learning organization allowed him to integrate everything he had laboured over into a coherent whole. When the knowledge revolution began to grow, he was convinced that what he had been doing had been part of that revolution. But one day, after three years of hard work across the corporation's plants around the world, he was allowed a glimpse of the real business knowledge that drove the organization. And to his initial sense of disbelief, this 'real' knowledge had nothing to do with efficiency, utilization or the involvement of large numbers of people. This 'real' knowledge turned out to be about knowing when to get into a market, when to get out; how to create value in that market and manage its decline. This knowledge was shared between three key individuals and by being allowed to see it, my friend was being invited to participate in a very privileged game. The question he kept asking himself, was: how could he have missed the real knowledge for so long? How could he have confused what turned out to be minor tactics with a strategy? Victor Newman (Excerpt from The Knowledge Activist's Handbook)
Book  The Knowledge Activist's Handbook (Feb 2003  ) by Victor NewmanAdventures from the Knowledge Trenches Download  Making Knowledge Work Conference Materials, May 2005Making Knowledge Work, May 2005 GKR Article  A word of advice: stop selling the 100% solution to experts by Victor NewmanThe Global Knowledge Review - November 2004 Past Event  Knowledge Summit 2003 Knowledge 2003: sharing best practices for implementing successful knowledge management initiatives 01 - 03 Jun 2003, Marcus Evans Kurhaus Hotel, The Hague, Netherlands LKN Launch  Formal Launch of the London Knowledge Network 15 Dec 2003, London Knowledge Network RS Hispaniola/Cutty Sark, London, United Kingdom Henley Knowledge Management Forum Annual Conference (June 2004)  16 - 17 Jun 2004, Henley Knowledge Management Forum Henley Management College, Henley, United Kingdom Knowledge Sharing, Creativity & Innovation  18 - 19 Oct 2005, Unicom Seminars London, United Kingdom Person  Victor Newman Former Chief Learning Officer, European Pfizer Research UniversityService Innovation CafesWhere Practitioners learn to make their own rules Weblog Entry  Victor Newman is blogging!Gurteen Knowledge-Log, David Gurteen, 1 July 2008
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