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| Author: | Sveiby, K. - E. |
| Title: | Transfer of knowledge and the information processing professions |
| Journal: | European Management Journal
1996 : AUG, VOL. 14:4, p. 379-388 |
| Index terms: | DATA MANAGEMENT PROFESSIONS INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | How is Knowledge best transferred? Via Information or via Tradition (face-to-face socialization)? This Article draws upon Michael Polanyi's concepts of "Tacit Knowing" and "Tradition", contrasting it with Information Theory to explore the two methods. The present growth in information seems to be a supply push, not a customer demand, which is potentially dangerous. On today's information markets the suppliers pay - not the consumers, suggesting that the value of information in transferring knowledge is very small. The value can even be negative, because the reader does not know until after the reading, whether the information was worth spending time or not. The money makers have the information suppliers as customers or have created standards that force the readers to use their tools. |
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