Hello Michael,
> First of all let me wish you well on your project of obtaining
> "perceptions" about the measuring of knowledge. You are apparently using
> the survey to collect descriptive vice inferential statistics. If you
> plan to use it for the latter the survey probably would fail a robust
> factor analysis. In other words it may not capture the measurement
> construct that you seek to understand. Therefor getting back to my initial
> post of being a bit bewildered about the substance of what it will
> uncover.
Thanks for the sentiments. I think a fundamental problem with a lot of the
comments I have received about the questionnaire is that of people reading too
much into what is essentially a very trivial set of questions which were aimed
more at developing a network of people interested in the project and to get an
idea about orgs think about knowledge measurement.
> Lastly you suggest that the measuring of knowledge is more correctly
> referred to as intellectual capital. By inferring this relationship you
> place value on the explicit nature of knowledge and ignore its tacit
> quality. But more so your formulation on what aspects of knowledge has
> value ignores the pluralistic qualities and richness of knowledge and its
> creation. Sounds like your study may suffer from "cartesian epistemology
> syndrome" :-).
Corporate knowledge in recent times has been referred to as Intellectual
Capital. This covers not only human knowledge (both tacit and explicit) but
also includes support structures, relationships (both internal and external)and
other such which gives the organisation it's competitive edge.
What I find very strange on your part in the leap you seem to have made from my
suggestion that knowledge is more commonly referred to as intellectual capital
to your suggestion that I have placed more value on explicit knowledge to the
detriment of tacit, while at the same time, no mention is made of the other
aspects of intellectual capital.
Sogo Bolumole
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