portfolio of multivendor services and range of expertise‚ Alcatel-Lucent can be this partner‚ helping our customers take a project from concept to reality‚ beginning with a comprehensive needs assessment‚ through design‚ development‚ and solution verification of service-ready processes and systems for operations and business support functions. Alcatel-Lucent’s approach to OSS/BSS services falls under two broad areas: 1. Strategic consulting‚ termed Service-Oriented Operations (SOO)‚ helps customers
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Know-how is more than knowledge. It puts knowledge to work in the real world. It is how scientific discoveries become routine medical treatments‚ and how inventions — like the iPod or the Internet — become the products and services that change how we work and play. The saying "Knowledge is power" is first attributed to philosopher Sir Francis Bacon in 1597. It was true then and it’s true now. Most firms recognize that knowledge in the form of Thought Leadership - delivering new ideas and
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True Knowledge – Descartes vs. Plato Many philosophers have tried to figure out what exactly true knowledge is. For years they have been asking questions and looking deep into the mind to better understand the methods needed to get to true knowledge. If we go back to some of the earliest philosophers we meet Plato in Greece. Plato tried to take on the question himself in a fictional conversation he wrote up between Socrates and Meno‚ and in which we see some insight to what he believes it is
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Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless‚ and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful. Samuel Johnson English author‚ critic‚ & lexicographer (1709 - 1784) Samuel Johnson wrote this about education. He was comparing‚ ignorant but caring‚ ethical people as opposed to educated and brilliant but selfish and antisocial people‚ Johnson was stating that‚ it is dangerous to educate people without a moral compass‚ or as former President Teddy Roosevelt once said‚ "To educate a
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Location:23335).” John Locke’s opinion on true knowledge is that it comes from the experience which comes from some kind of substance‚ such as our five senses. Locke’s purpose as he states‚ “to inquire into the original‚ certainty‚ and extent of human knowledge‚ together with the grounds and degrees of belief‚ opinion‚ and assent (Cahn‚ Location: 23347).” Firstly‚ Locke has believed that children and idiots are to be born into this world without the knowledge. But as Locke states in the text‚ “No proposition
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Areas of Knowledge: Invented‚ Discovered‚ or Both? One cannot say with certainty that specific areas of knowledge are invented nor can one say with certainty that areas of knowledge are discovered. Two areas of knowledge that deal with this topic are mathematics and natural science. In my opinion‚ I believe that mathematics is an invented area of knowledge with some discovery whereas science is a discovered area of knowledge with some invention. Certain topics and categories of mathematics might
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IMPORTANCE OF PROJECT MANAGEMENT KNOWLEDGE AREAS DEPARTMENT OF OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT FACULTY OF MANAGEMENTSCIENCES TSHWANE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SOUTH AFRICA ABSTRACT This paper reflects on the application of the nine knowledge areas of Project Management. How relevant‚ effective and efficient are the knowledge areas in address the challenges faced by project implementation in modern project undertakings. The knowledge areas are defined in relation to the project world. Literature review
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In this essay the paradoxes and difficulties associated with the ongoing debate between ‘Indigenous Knowledge’ and scientific knowledge will be thoroughly discussed. An attempt will be made to take a stand and decide whether ‘Indigenous Knowledge’ and ‘Scientific Knowledge’ should have distinct boundaries or whether they are able to co-exist successfully. In order to do this‚ reference will mainly be drawn from readings by L. Green (2012)‚ M. Leach and J. Fairhead (2002). I will draw on evidence
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Dec. 7‚ 2012 True opinion versus knowledge Knowledge is generally thought to require justified true belief‚ even if justified true belief is not sufficient for knowledge‚ as Edmund Gettier famously argued. In the Meno‚ Plato demonstrates that true opinion is not equal to knowledge. However‚ Gettier holds a different opinion that justified opinion is not equal to knowledge‚ but it is necessary to knowledge. I support the Plato’s opinion that true opinion is not equal to knowledge‚ and that justified
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happens to be true but that someone believes for invalid reasons‚ such as a faulty premise‚ counts as knowledge. It is named after American philosopher Edmund Gettier‚ who wrote about the problem in a three-page paper published in 1963‚ called "Is Justified True Belief Knowledge?". The paper refers to the concept of knowledge as justified true belief‚ credited to Plato‚ though Plato argued against this very account of knowledge in the Theaetetus . In the paper‚ Gettier proposed two scenarios where
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