Comments on: Do you really need Knowledge Managers anymore? http://www.sameeragarwal.com/blog/2008/07/do-you-need-knowledge-managers.html His views, thoughts, introspection and rants Fri, 23 Jul 2010 17:34:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: aletha http://www.sameeragarwal.com/blog/2008/07/do-you-need-knowledge-managers.html/comment-page-1#comment-361 aletha Fri, 31 Oct 2008 11:54:48 +0000 http://www.sameeragarwal.com/blog/?p=485#comment-361 A thought that runs thru the mind :Doctors bring babies into the world, but its the mothers who actually bring them and then the fathers also come into the picture. But, one can do without the doctor, one can also do without the father and in the end, even a female is not required, technology lets you bring a baby into the world without all the 3 except you need them as catalysts or the channels thru which the baby thought evolves into being! And note the change "a mother to a female" But does anything at all really change? So although the importance or timing of roles may change, the responsibilities that a communicator and a Knowledge Manager perform only grow, they do not diminish. Like any living organism, that adapts to change or perishes if it can't, so too will Knowledge Managers adapt to the change with the introduction of Web 2.0. We become the observers and the connectors, the channels of guding people to the mechanisms, while the communicators can only help the flow and what flows not the how. With the advent of TV people thot the radio would die, with the advent of Internet people thot books would die- but neither did the readers/announcers nor authors/novelists die. They just changed the "channel":-) A thought that runs thru the mind :D octors bring babies into the world, but its the mothers who actually bring them and then the fathers also come into the picture. But, one can do without the doctor, one can also do without the father and in the end, even a female is not required, technology lets you bring a baby into the world without all the 3 except you need them as catalysts or the channels thru which the baby thought evolves into being! And note the change “a mother to a female” But does anything at all really change?

So although the importance or timing of roles may change, the responsibilities that a communicator and a Knowledge Manager perform only grow, they do not diminish.

Like any living organism, that adapts to change or perishes if it can’t, so too will Knowledge Managers adapt to the change with the introduction of Web 2.0. We become the observers and the connectors, the channels of guding people to the mechanisms, while the communicators can only help the flow and what flows not the how.

With the advent of TV people thot the radio would die, with the advent of Internet people thot books would die- but neither did the readers/announcers nor authors/novelists die. They just changed the “channel”:-)

]]> By: Atul Rai http://www.sameeragarwal.com/blog/2008/07/do-you-need-knowledge-managers.html/comment-page-1#comment-355 Atul Rai Wed, 15 Oct 2008 12:26:50 +0000 http://www.sameeragarwal.com/blog/?p=485#comment-355 interesting thought, Sameer ... in fact, i think we have been doing this for some time now, without even knowing it. :-) brings out another interesting dimension ... if KM is about employee engagement (in some respect), then should it be the focal point for employee engagement? after all, employee engagement is more and more about knowledge today. interesting thought, Sameer … in fact, i think we have been doing this for some time now, without even knowing it. :-) brings out another interesting dimension … if KM is about employee engagement (in some respect), then should it be the focal point for employee engagement? after all, employee engagement is more and more about knowledge today.

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