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What can KMers learn from artists ? |
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Following our successful meeting last month a second one follows in quick succession with the aim of building new relationships. The question for dscussion concerns ART and the practice of KM. If you can make it please let me know before hand. Colleagues and guests are welcome. To the question for discussion... Is there anything that KM practitioners can learn from the production and dissemination of works of Art, and the mechanisms through which they become embedded and representative, or characteristic, of different cultural spaces? Art works can be: painted; sculpted; constructed (Tracy Emin's famous bed); performed, in the case of music; and written, as in songs and symphonies or novels and poems. In each case there is the assumption that only the most knowledgeable, the most expert, the most technically competent, the best crafters, can become successful and thus gain a place in cultural history. Are we right to make this assumption and can the same be said for crafters of organization strategy and policy documents, and those who craft justifications for investment in this project or another (including authors of KM policy and systems)? Do the best 'pieces' always come to the fore? If they don't does it matter? Do these pieces become famous because they produced by the most competent artists who are consummate masters of the relevant techniques? Objects perform relations, says John Law the actor-network theorist. In their production, the relationship between an artist/crafter and their work emerge simultaneously from this mangle of practice. When they are launched into the world, works of art perform or precipitate relations with critics and champions and admirers, and students and teachers and so on. Does the same mechananisms operate when the Managing Director, the knowledge manager, the HR director publishes a new policy or procedural document on the organizational intranet, or when the marketing department launches your new product or service? Can any objects, not just works of art (songs, novels, poems, paintings, installations), cause the precipitation of new relations around them, and are they sustained in their existence by the conversations about them? This is not an exhaustive list of questions but I hope you get the idea. The main question, of course, is there anything here a KM practitioner take back to their organizations to improve their KM practices.
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