Knowledge Leadership Associates » knowledge assets http://www.knowlead.co.za Creating the knowledge advantage Thu, 15 Dec 2011 07:36:30 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 How to tell a good story . . . http://www.knowlead.co.za/how-to-tell-a-good-story/ http://www.knowlead.co.za/how-to-tell-a-good-story/#comments Tue, 22 Feb 2011 15:05:32 +0000 Peter G. Underwood http://knowlead.co.za/?p=1895 How to tell a good story . . . is a post from: Knowledge Leadership Associates

]]> The value of narrating stories has long been recognised in Knowledge Management: such accounts often contain a wealth of tacit knowledge, unacknowledged insights and other useful information about an organisation, its business practices and the “real” job, as distinct from the one we describe in our job descriptions.  To be valuable, a story needs to be rich but robust.  In a recent American Express Open Forum blog, Jennifer Aaker and Andy Smith consider the Seven Deadly Sins of business storytelling, providing helpful guidelines and concluding that stories need to be documented and stored because of the tacit knowledge they contain.

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]]> An interesting article in the UK Guardian newspaper raises the prospect that computers will soon be used to locate and compare research papers on the Web and suggest new hypotheses that human researchers can test.  this process of “automatic hypothesis generation” could, potentially, yield many insights into the areas of bio-medicine, chemistry, physics, and the social sciences.  By collating research articles with other research results, the hope is that computers will be able to spot patterns that might otherwise elude humans, though it is acknowledged that this approach cannot be an automatic key to success.

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