There is an interesting discussion on the Knowledge worker paradox story I posted to the Knowledge Board some time back. I would not repost all interesting comments here, just a piece from my own thinking:
Recently I started to think about knowledge worker productivity as about personal effectiveness in a knowledge-intensive environment. I’m interested to see how knowledge workers do their work and what could be improved.
For example, being involved into conversations in different communities or professional networks is an important part of learning and coming up with new ideas, but our time and capability to establish and manage relations are limited. How do I make choices selecting groups to join? How do I remember all different conversations and their contexts? Some people do it naturally (I guess I’m not the only one wondering how Denham manages all his online activities :), others have to struggle… I could think about many other knowledge-work-related activities that could be improved: keeping track of someone’s readings, brainstorming ideas, effective sharing. Next to it there are different technologies that can make those tasks easier or more difficult. And other “simple” issues like time management.
Tags: knowledge networker, PhDArchived version of this entry is available at http://blog.mathemagenic.com/2003/11/23.html#a850; comments are here.
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