Wednesday, February 4, 2009

data,information and knowledge and organisation

Data: symbols
Data is raw. It simply exists it doesn’t have any meaning of itself. It is represented by number,picture,words which dont have exact meaning.
Ex: E12 6PJ

Information: data that are processed to be useful.
Information is data that gives meaning. This meaning is useful.
Ex: post code E12 6PJ

Knowledge: application of data and information
Knowledge is appropriate collection of information, which is useful knowledge is deterministic process.
Ex:knowledge can be gained from breif information.


My view of data,information and knowledge is when i am in india i got only data about london, university and more but when i arrived here i got complete information from my friends regarding jobs, routes and learned more subject from university lectures by this i got knowledge where i improved my knowledge by sharing ideas and thoughts with others.

organisation - the persons (or committees or departments etc.) who make up a body for the purpose of administering something; "he claims that the present administration is corrupt"; "the governance of an association is responsible to its members"; "he quickly became recognized as a member of the establishment"
An organized structure for arranging or classifying; "he changed the arrangement of the topics"; "the facts were familiar but it was in the organization of them that he was original"; "he tried to understand their system of classification"

My view on organisation:
Organisation is social arrangement which has collective goal , own performance with boundaries to achieve goals is major priority give in an organisation with professional character and encouraging individual relations for organisation development research , discussions , planned research with scholarly work or professional activities
Organisation - committees
- Group of people
- Team work
- Organised manner
- Distributing and discussing work done and to establish



http://www.ilo.org/public/english/iira/pdf/articles.pdf
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/organisation

Gene Bellinger, Durval Castro, Anthony Mills
reference:http://www.systems-thinking.org/dikw/dikw.htm

knowledge management definitions

KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT:

1)"Knowledge Management is the discipline of enabling individuals, teams and entire organisations to collectively and systematically create, share and apply knowledge, to better achieve their objectives"
Ron Young, CEO/CKO Knowledge Associates International

2)"Knowledge management will deliver outstanding collaboration and partnership working. It will ensure the region maximizes the value of its information and knowledge assets and it will help its citizens to use their creativity and skills better, leading to improved effectiveness and greater innovation".
West Midlands Regional Observatory, UK

3)"We recognise that our most important asset is people and their knowledge. We understand Knowledge Management (KM) as the cultivation of an environment within which people are willing to share, learn and collaborate together leading to improvement".
Care Services Improvement Partnership (CSIP)

In my view knowledge management means we can build knowledge from the following:

Capturing information: The information is there somewhere may be on pc, book, an attached file all documents are stored in one central repository. Therefore information is more likely to be captures stored and made available for reuse.

Finding information: when a user has to search a network file he must know exactly about that where to look.

Consuming information: A user finds that information in context, meaning in the information and some relative data that enables user to relevance of that piece of information.

By this where people create, collaborate and capture information and store the information by which they can build knowledge from this information. Here they can get knowledge from books, journals and they exchange knowledge between many individuals where they share and get different thoughts in their discussions.



1) Developing an appropriate culture and strategy.
2) Learning organisation and knowledge infrastructure
3) Using information technology developing knowledge management and innovation
4) Access new directions in knowledge management.

My own knowledge:
I am interested to know about the hardware of PCs. When I was learning programming courses in computer learning centre I found some PC which has got some hardware problems so I took permission from my head of the institute to work on them. I started to work on them myself and try to solve the hardware problem and head of the institute have come to know about this and trained me in his institute and offered me a job.


Reference:
http://www.knowledge-management-online.com/Definition-of-Knowledge-Management.html
15/06/08 wikis by Michael Idinopulos and Ross mayfield
http://www.zoliblog.com/2007/1/18/wikis-are-not-knowledge-management-tools/
http://www.tlainc.com/articl56.htm
http://info.emeraldinsight.com/products/journals/journals.htm?PHPSESSID=i190qp981m3vm2eri17199fpt6&id=jkm