Klogs as a reporting tool

Lunch break: switching from work to reflection…

Curiouser and curiouser! in You cannot make people smarter:

Thanks to [DG] for putting me on to Mathemagenic.

“You cannot make people smarter.”

I believe this to be true. However I also think that:

1. Not every organisation believes that, e.g. the amount of money spent each year on training that doesn’t work.
2. Not every organisation cares how smart it’s people are (no matter how much they spend on investors in people logos)

Probably, those who don’t believe in smart people, don’t believe in KM as well… Or, believe that good IT infrastructure will solve KM problems.

My fear is that klogging will only thrive in organisations that are healthy, and that there may not be enough of them. Or, worse, that klogging will thrive as a control mechanism imposed by insecure and fearful management. I don’t want to be a part of that.

I don’t think that klogging could be imposed: in “no trust culture” even if someone asks me what I’m thinking about, I can always say something else. If imposed, klogs can only capture formal activities, that in many cases go to all kinds of reports in any case.

Klogs can turn in a new kind of reporting tool. This could be not so bad if it replaces all other reports. If we think about klogs as project management tool, why not to extent it to the reporting tool?

Finally, I would put it broader: I don’t want to be a part of unhealthy (in cultural sense) organisation. I simply wouldn’t be able to realise my ambitions in this case.

Archived version of this entry is available at http://blog.mathemagenic.com/2002/08/23.html#a154; comments are here.

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