Knowledge_Worker

Knowledge Worker Knowledge rules In the fifties and sixties, the priesthood of the new computer age spoke of data, as in data processing. In the seventies and eighties, when it was recognised that users had a constituency, and indeed that there was such a thing as a user, data magically transformed itself into information. This, we were led to understand, was data which could be understood by somebody other than a rocket scientist. In the pre-apocalyptic nineties, a concept with a more mystical ring has entered the business glossary: knowledge, which superficially could be described as information with a purpose. If you ask the average management pundit what are today's biggest corporate hot buttons, the chances are they'll say Knowledge Management and intellectual capital. Some will no doubt dismiss Knowledge Management as this year's fad, the logical antidote to the Business Process Re-engineering craze which resulted in so many corporate donkeys being turned into pantomime horses. We at Kudos happen to think that Knowledge Management is more than a passing fad, for the simple reason that, like all the best ideas, it's based on common sense. So what is it' And how will it affect who will be expected to manage the knowledge' It's the future knowledge, new, employees, future, company, value, intellectual, employers, companies, capital, become, organisation, need, management, years, workers, work, personal, organisations, core, business, assets, world, worker, web, selection, profit, people, job, information, change, whether, whatever, united, understand, training