FYI@Librarian: 21st Century Knowledge Management

Sunday, November 6, 2016

21st Century Knowledge Management

21st Century Knowledge Management is the Action Research Group representing Silicon Valley, San Francisco and Northern California. All are welcome.

The 21st Century Knowledge Management Meetup group is for leaders and professionals eager to participate in the next great episode of growth and prosperity in the Knowledge Era. Group members will strive to unlearn the past, focus on people and truly shape the future of knowledge work.

In today’s post-informational and post-industrial society, Knowledge Management (KM) is enjoying a stunning renaissance. Knowledge creation and usage is leading many of the modern priorities of business, government and civil society. Some of the most dramatic, obvious and impactful characteristics of KM and our emerging Knowledge Society are –

• Producing ideas is the main way to grow the economy;
• Knowledge creation is the essential business capability;
• Transformation from goods to knowledge-based services;
• Knowledge workers and the creative class propel disruptive innovation;
• Sociology, biological and behavioral science subsumes information technologies for sense-making, knowledge creation, growth and prosperity.

The knowledge era of Google, Wikipedia, Hadoop, smartphones and so forth has fundamentally altered knowledge creation, business, government and civil society. Great vigor, interest and appetite for perpetual knowledge creation puts 21st Century KM squarely in the forefront of productivity, innovation and prosperity.

Where do we see this dramatic shift? How do you advance in the Knowledge Era? What are the four realms of 21st Century knowledge and KM? What are the future-focused themes that you must master today?

The four realms of Authentic, 21st Century KM are drawn from sociological, biological, behavioral and technological breakthroughs of the post-information era. They are summarized here with examples of key action research themes for 21st Century Knowledge Management Group.

• Sociological principles and advancements are essential to advanced sense-making, social media, networks and business. Techniques such as social network analysis and business ecologies are critical to optimal knowledge flow.
• Biological factors of brain science, living systems and evolutionary development (evo-devo) reveal and create conditions for optimal knowledge sharing and creation. Neuromodulators like oxytocin propel KM and the emerging field of NeuroBusiness.
• Behavioral innovations like mindfulness, storytelling and narrative are the foundations of Authentic KM. Complexity is a joyful and essential property to be embrace for flourishing knowledge creation and prosperous knowledge ecologies.
• Technological breakthroughs are ushering in the era of cognitive computing. Mid-Century Von Neumann architectures are giving way to algorithmic big data and social computing to fundamentally advance knowledge creation and KM.

All of these realms are a stark and astonishing departure from the decomposing KM Establishment and their parochial information practices of the past.

Actors in the 21st Century Knowledge Management Meetup are future-focused. You are the professionals, entrepreneurs, investors, scholars and leaders of the knowledge economy. This Meetup group reveals and serves auspicious conditions of 21st Century KM and knowledge leadership. Join your colleagues, communities and 21st Century Knowledge Management Meetup to embrace the Knowledge Era and above all Create the Future!