Written and posted on previous blog site: Wednesday, August 27, 2003
Knowledge management - the Emperor's new clothes! Why are so few people willing to tell the Emperor that s/he is in fact naked? Or can the masses really not see; are they spellbound by the very supposition that such a fine set of clothing should exist; or just very trusting of those whom seek to benefit from the fictitious clothing? But wait... do my eyes also deceive me? The Emperor is in fact clothed; but not in the fine garments described by the KM Consultants and Practitioners; rather, s/he is merely wearing the drab but functional garments of IRM - only with sequins hurriedly tacked on for the purposes of superficial glitz and consumer deceit. I for one say bah-humbug to your claims of being able to codify tacit knowledge - be gone with you, you unscrupulous charlatans.
Knowledge management - the Emperor's new clothes! Why are so few people willing to tell the Emperor that s/he is in fact naked? Or can the masses really not see; are they spellbound by the very supposition that such a fine set of clothing should exist; or just very trusting of those whom seek to benefit from the fictitious clothing? But wait... do my eyes also deceive me? The Emperor is in fact clothed; but not in the fine garments described by the KM Consultants and Practitioners; rather, s/he is merely wearing the drab but functional garments of IRM - only with sequins hurriedly tacked on for the purposes of superficial glitz and consumer deceit. I for one say bah-humbug to your claims of being able to codify tacit knowledge - be gone with you, you unscrupulous charlatans.
