Comments on: Knowledge worker – NOT a redundant term http://www.acidlabs.org/2007/12/28/knowledge-worker-not-a-redundant-term/ Conversation. Collaboration. Community. Sat, 06 Mar 2010 02:35:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: No Straight Lineshttp://www.acidlabs.org/2007/12/28/knowledge-worker-not-a-redundant-term/comment-page-1/#comment-4146 No Straight Lines Thu, 31 Jan 2008 22:34:44 +0000 http://www.acidlabs.org/2007/12/28/knowledge-worker-not-a-redundant-term/#comment-4146 <strong>A conversation on the nature of knowledge work...</strong>A few weeks ago there was an interesting exchange of ideas among Shawn Callahan, Matt Hodgson, Stephen Collins, and Dave Snowden (and many others, I’m sure) on the nature of knowledge work. Some key excerpts:...... A conversation on the nature of knowledge work…

A few weeks ago there was an interesting exchange of ideas among Shawn Callahan, Matt Hodgson, Stephen Collins, and Dave Snowden (and many others, I’m sure) on the nature of knowledge work. Some key excerpts:

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]]> By: Knowledge Worker: Redundant concept through ubiquosity or elitism? at HumaneIAhttp://www.acidlabs.org/2007/12/28/knowledge-worker-not-a-redundant-term/comment-page-1/#comment-3474 Knowledge Worker: Redundant concept through ubiquosity or elitism? at HumaneIA Sat, 29 Dec 2007 05:36:40 +0000 http://www.acidlabs.org/2007/12/28/knowledge-worker-not-a-redundant-term/#comment-3474 [...] Steve Collins wrote the following: Shawn Callahan of Anecdote argues that the need for the term knowledge worker is redundant now that technology is ubiquitous in the developed world and that almost every worker trades in knowledge of some sort. He sees its use as a way to discriminate between identified knowledge workers and those whose roles are not traditionally viewed this way: It’s an dark undercurrent and tacitly becomes a basis for discrimination. “Our salespeople are knowledge workers but our gas fitters are not.” I suspect this feeling of superiority comes from the erroneous data-information-knowledge model where knowledge (and even more ridiculously, wisdom) sits at the pinnacle of the pyramid. [...] [...] Steve Collins wrote the following: Shawn Callahan of Anecdote argues that the need for the term knowledge worker is redundant now that technology is ubiquitous in the developed world and that almost every worker trades in knowledge of some sort. He sees its use as a way to discriminate between identified knowledge workers and those whose roles are not traditionally viewed this way: It’s an dark undercurrent and tacitly becomes a basis for discrimination. “Our salespeople are knowledge workers but our gas fitters are not.” I suspect this feeling of superiority comes from the erroneous data-information-knowledge model where knowledge (and even more ridiculously, wisdom) sits at the pinnacle of the pyramid. [...]

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