practice” in the context of knowledge management? Why is important to have “proven/best practices”? What are the basic functions of communities and associated examples? What are the approaches that make the “communities of practice” work for ConocoPhillips‚ Fluor‚ and Schlumberger? (p61-64) Knowledge retention has been a top priority for the Aerospace Corporation since its founding in 1960. Most of the programs in which Aerospace is involved go on for decades‚ making knowledge retention critical in the
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Introduction This report is made based on the topic “Knowledge Gap between Generations Based on Media Exposure.” What is knowledge gap? It was first introduced by 3 researchers of University of Minnesota that is Phillip J. Tichenor‚ Associate Professor of Journalism and Mass Communication‚ George A. Donohue‚ Professor of Sociology and Clarice‚ and N. Olien‚ Instructor in Sociology in 1970. Based on the title of the research‚ it can be defined as the gap of the information obtained by exposed
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Chapter 25 – Knowledge Gap -The knowledge gap hypothesis presumes that you will know more about these topics than people whose educational level is lower than yours‚ even if the topics don’t directly concern your everyday life. -Stated by Tichenor‚ Donohue and Olien in their 1970 article they said the population is divided into two distinct segments: a group of better educated people who know more about most things and those with low education who know less. -Low Socio-economic status (SES)
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Knowledge and Wisdom Knowledge - and wisdom. Sometimes we have all we need of one‚ but not enough of the other. And often‚ too often‚ we don’t know the difference. Often‚ too often‚ we mistake knowledge‚ the accumulation of facts‚ for wisdom‚ the ability to make the right choices in life. To succeed as individuals‚ and as a nation‚ we need to know how to put what we know to proper use. Perhaps this is why our system of education so often fails. Children are fed facts‚ lots of facts‚ without
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up the concepts of personal knowledge and shared knowledge. Personal knowledge depends on the experiences of a particular individual because everyone is living life differently. On the other hand‚ shared knowledge is the product of more than one individual as it binds different ideas together. Shared knowledge is pretty much a collection of personal knowledge. For example‚ my personal knowledge is that Taylor Swift is the best singer of all time‚ but a shared knowledge would be Taylor Swift is a singer
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Different types of houses. There are many types of housing: detached houses‚ semi-detached houses‚ terraced houses and flats. Some of the detached houses are cottages and bungalows. It must be understood that a detached house can take on any form or style. It does not matter if the house is a bungalow‚ a cottage or a mansion. As long as it is not joined to another house‚ it is a detached house. One advantage of a detached house is the fact that the free space surrounding the building is belongs
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Knowledge is More Powerful than Power There are many ways to be a leader‚ someway leads to a good future; someway is a dead ending. "People ask the difference between a leader and a boss.... The leader works in the open‚ and the boss in covert. The leader leads and the boss drives." (Theodore Roosevelt). Like what Roosevelt said‚ leader and boss are different. Leader means use knowledge and skill let people follow and boss means use power let people follow. Creon and Prospero are the leaders in
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History is the area of knowledge which records and analysis the past events. History pays a key component in understanding the temporal nature of human life. We acquire knowledge of history through two main ways of knowing‚ language and reason. Language is the way which we communicate history; therefore it defines what we understand through communicating events and facts. Reason‚ which can be seen through proof and knowledge is vital in assessing the validity of historical
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intellectual Property “Intellectual property”‚ this term was first proposed by the French scholar Karp Niyazov in the mid-17th century; after that it develop by the famous Belgian jurist Picardy‚ and Picardy defined it as “the right of every intellectual activity”. Until after the “world intellectual property organization” convention in 1967‚ this term became gradually use in the whole world. The intellectual property basically means that people has the exclusive rights on their intellectual labor by law
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have access to any kind of knowledge. Even the most elementary knowledge that is to say their identity was taken away from them. Why was it so important for slave owners that their slaves should remain ignorant and what strategies did they use to achieve this goal? First of all‚ I will focus on the problem of the identity: how and why slaveholders deprived slaves of this self-knowledge that is necessary to man’s balance? Secondly‚ I will turn to the issue of knowledge: Why was it so strictly forbidden
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