Knowing Knowledge

Knowledge is changing. It develops faster, it changes more quickly, and it is more central to organizational success than in any other time in history.
Our schools, universities, corporations, and non-profit organizations, need to adapt. We need to change the spaces and structures of our society to align with the new context and characteristics of knowledge.

How we market, how we learn, how we build, how we collaborate - these are all changing. Most organizations are not prepared for the sea change washing ashore. We are conducting business in a manner that is no longer reflective of the market, or society as a whole.
Knowing Knowledge is an exploration of knowledge - what it is, how it is changing, and what it means to our organizations and society. Knowing Knowledge is now available for purchase or download. Click the "book" tab for more information

Change pressures arise from different sectors of a system. At times it is mandated from the top of a hierarchy, other times it forms from participants at a grass-roots level. Some changes are absorbed by the organization without significant impact on, or alterations of, existing methods. In other cases, change takes root. It then causes the formation of new methods within the organization.

Initially these methods will be informal, as those aspects of the organization nearest to the change begin to adapt. Overtime, the methods significantly impact the organization, resulting in the creation of new structures and new spaces (an alignment to the nature of change). These structures and spaces then create new affordances—enabling the organization to change and adapt. The new affordances then create a new cycle of change pressures

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