San Francisco Public Utilities Commission Preserves Expertise with Better Knowledge Management CASE STUDY A major challenge facing many companies and organizations is the imminent retirement of baby boomers. For certain organizations‚ this challenge is more daunting than usual‚ not only because of a larger spike in employee retirements‚ but also because of the business process change that must accompany significant shifts in any workforce. The San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (SFPUC)
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Robust Knowledge is Knowledge that is relevant and accepted by actors in the context of its application. Robust knowledge requires both consensus and disagreement because it is a knowledge that is powerfully built‚ a powerfully built knowledge because consensus refers to collective opinion and disagreement refers to lack of approval. Although it does require consensus and disagreement‚ in some fields it is not necessary. Mathematics could be an area of knowledge that could explain why this claim is
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The Power of Knowledge Our present day cabinet of curiosities (the "Cabinet") is akin to early modern representations‚ which contained a vast range of objects representing the power of divine creation‚ in that the Cabinet represents‚ through its display of five objects‚ the power of human knowledge. Each of these objects helps mankind acquire and/or use knowledge. The order of objects displayed has been designed to reflect the evolution and utilisation of knowledge: an illustration of the DNA spiral
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Metamemory is the knowledge we have about our memory. It allows us to reflect and observe our memory. Our knowledge plays an important part of our ability to do many things such as‚ strategy selection‚ monitoring our comprehension‚ performance evaluation‚ planning and the allocation of cognitive resources. There are two main aspects of metamemory: declarative knowledge and procedural knowledge. Declarative knowledge allows us to assess the contents of our memory and knowledge of certain intellectual
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* Knowledge Retention Strategies in Industries * A brief introduction Knowledge management is the systematic process of finding‚ selecting‚ organizing‚ distilling and presenting information. Tacit knowledge is the knowledge we each carry in our heads about how to do things‚ who to call and the lessons learned through experience. Making it explicit is recording in some media that allows another person to use it. The media can be a complex computer database or a piece of paper tacked
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FOUNDATIONS OF KNOWLEDGE BECOMING A CRITICAL READER OF QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH RE-SEARCH methodical investigation to seek answers that involve explanation and understanding Positivism – falsification and replication all research has flaws limited resources & ‘the least worst option’ is research ‘fit for purpose?’ research is presented as if ‘fit for purpose’ facts‚ findings and critical reading Tim Hartford – but there are more Ben Goldacre (Guardian)‚ Seife (Proofiness) WHY
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PHL/716 Epistemology‚ or the study of knowledge‚ requires the scholar analyze the what‚ how‚ and why’s of their own knowledge. Asking these questions of themselves is essentially applying that which they have learned. There are different origins of knowledge as conceptualized by philosophers‚ educators‚ and scientists. Early philosophers defined knowledge as “justified true belief” (Cooper‚ pg. 23). In order for an individual to know something it must be true‚ he or she must believe it‚ and the
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Throughout this course‚ we have been exposed to various fields of literature that revolve around a specific theme portraying the argument and point being made. It is possible‚ however‚ that two very opposite articles with unrelated topics can and may revolve around a similar theme. Beginning on page 239 of Katherine Ann Ackley’s Perspectives on Contemporary Issues‚ author Jean Kilbourne describes the impact that advertising has had on our society in her write Advertising’s Influence on Media Content
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Royal Institute of Philosophy Literature and Knowledge Author(s): Catherine Wilson Source: Philosophy‚ Vol. 58‚ No. 226 (Oct.‚ 1983)‚ pp. 489-496 Published by: Cambridge University Press on behalf of Royal Institute of Philosophy Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3750861 . Accessed: 17/10/2013 15:08 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use‚ available at . http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp . JSTOR is a not-for-profit
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Though knowledge and wisdom may seem alike‚ they are really very different. They actually only have two things in common - they both involve the mind and both are hard to acquire. Someone who has knowledge would know that a tomato is a fruit‚ but someone who had wisdom would know not to put them in a fruit salad. Anyone can obtain knowledge about anything‚ but only some can use that knowledge and apply it in the best way.Knowledge’ is information of which someone is aware. Knowledge is also used
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