Entries from February 2008
Continuing from where we left in the last post:
There are a large number of factors that contribute in building Corporate Tacit Knowledge Into A Strategic Asset. Among these are affirming that solutions are documented and placed in a searchable database which can be accessed by other employees.
Another contributing factor is to organize a formal […]
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AlooTechie.com reports that there is something called BlogBard, which will allow us to convert our blog posts into audio. In some ways this is great – especially for all those long posts that we all want to read but also want some other work out of way at the same time. However, not so great […]
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There is an interesting thought wave hitting the Indian economic scene. This thought was also echoed by a colleague who attended the recently held Defence Expo (www.defexpo.com)
The defence spending has moved away from being a highly regulated, government machinery driven system to being a rather competitive, innovation lead mechanism. Or at least is moving […]
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Knowledge is normally defined as knowing or having any information on any particular thing/subject, while tacit knowledge is usually something which is fully understood but has not been imparted to others. In other words, it is something which has to be shared and distributed among one and all so that it becomes explicitly available. In […]
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Last week I was talking with this colleague of mine, who has been trying to get me to blog and take to social media (don’t know why they call it that – is rest of the media anti-social?)
Now while I like blogs, read some of them and have nothing against them, I cannot get myself to […]
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February 24th, 2008 · 2 Comments
There is so much literature and news that we have read about OLPC and various perspectives associated with it. Some of it, we have followed owing to our interest in the endeavor and related environment. There are agreements, disagreements, or plain neutrality of opinion.
This is what OLPC wiki says about the project, very nicely put.“The […]
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February 20th, 2008 · 1 Comment
It is often said that children hold the future of a country and we should make them educated in the proper and best way, which is one of the main requirements that is demanded in all the circumstances. One such project is the “One Laptop Per Child” (OLPC) Project, which provides children all over the […]
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Rudyard Kipling once said, “Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.” We couldn’t help agree better. Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding and mutual valuing. This is the raison d’être for this space as well. As the TWB World wider horizons and grows into a larger family, we realize, sometimes […]
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