Hi Brad,

Thanks for sending that link. Several times now I have discovered things
about my own government from Australians, whether here or on ACT-KM. A
clear indicator of the serendipitous nature of knowledge and the power of
CoPs. :-)

Speaking as a Canadian, it is hard not to feel somewhat dismayed by the
report. Of note is the fact that the word "community" (let alone community
of practice) does not appear once in the document. Further, on page 13,
the study says that "almost every practitioner ascribed the responsibility
for their knowledge management practices to managers or executives", from
which the report intuits the "importance of leadership to KM" rather than
denoting the lack of ownership in KM programs. Leadership was the top KM
practice and Knowledge Codification was second from the top.

For me, this report implies that neither Statistics Canada, nor the
departments they surveyed really *get* next-generation KM. Am I being too
harsh? Do they simply have a different definition of KM?

-Steve

At 08:13 AM 31/03/2003 +0800, Hinton, B (Brad) wrote:
>This report from Statistics Canada on knowledge management by Canadian firms
>was released on 28 March 2003. It might be of interest, especially the
>approach taken by the Canadian national statistical agency, in their survey.
>
>http://www.statcan.ca/english/IPS/Data/88F0006XIE2003007.htm#toc
>
>BTW, it's free!
>
>Regards,
>Brad Hinton
>Manager, Information Services
>Rabobank
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