Give it a Break
Quote: "In its most rudimentary form, my inbox review is a kind of knowledge management system. I sift through material looking for snippets of relevance that I can turn into some kind of useful information for myself or colleagues.
Companies and organizations that utilize Knowledge Management are doing much the same thing, albeit on a larger and more sophisticated scale. They collect tons of data, review it, process it, disseminate it, all in the name of making smarter decisions about products, customers and markets. What companies don't want to do is slow to a trickle the amount of information they take in. Indeed, with all the technologies now available to collect and massage data, the emphasis among many KM circles is to cast as wide a corporate information net as possible. The more information, the argument goes, the better the knowledge. "
Comment: Information means absolutely nothing if it is unorganized and inaccessible. This is one of the defining presumptions about the need for KM - too much info, must organize it. Reality is, much of that information will never turn into knowledge - the info is useless and has a short "shelf-life". Great statement: "Keep taking in ever more data, and it becomes harder to turn it into knowledge."