Inquiring organizations moving from knowledge management to wisdom
Title:
Inquiring organizations moving from knowledge management to wisdom
Author:
Courtney, James F. (James Forrest), 1944-
ISBN:
9781591403111
Publication Information:
Hershey, Pa. : IGI Global (701 E. Chocolate Avenue, Hershey, Pennsylvania, 17033, USA), c2005.
Physical Description:
electronic texts (xxi, 373 p. : ill.) : digital files.
Contents:
I. Inquiring organizations / Dianne Hall, David Croasdell -- II. Information technology and Hegelian inquiring organizations / Bongsug Chae, James Courtney, John Haynes -- III. The design and evolution of Singerian inquiring organizations / Alice Kienholz -- IV. Kantian inquiring systems / Ahmed Mahfouz, David Paradice -- V. Email and knowledge creation / Sharman Lichtenstein, Craig Parker, Margaret Cybulski -- VI. Supporting the complexity of inquiring organizations / Dianne Hall, Yi Guo -- VII. Knowledge creation in inquiring organizations using KDD / John Murray, Thomas Case, Adrian Gardiner -- VIII. Using inquiring practice and uncovering exformation for information systems development / Martina Lundin, Morten Vendelo -- IX. Avoiding epistemological myopia / Robert Mason -- X. Inquiring organizations and the wisdom of tacit knowledge for a Heideggerian inquiring system / John Haynes -- XI. Mindfulness / Kay Fielden -- XII. Wise organizations? / Chauncey Bell -- XIII. The phenomenon of duality / Nilmini Wickramasinghe -- XIV. Understanding organizational philosophies of inquiry through hermeneutic analysis of organizational texts / Michael Dickey, David Paradice -- XV. Transforming organizational culture to the ideal inquiring organization / Leoni Warne, Helen Hasan, Irena Ali -- XVI. Exploiting reusable abstractions in organizational inquiry / Haim Kilov, Ira Sack.
Abstract:
This book assembles into one volume a comprehensive collection of the key current thinking regarding the use of C. West Churchman's Design of Inquiring Systems as a basis for computer-based inquiring systems design and implementation. Inquiring systems are systems that go beyond knowledge management to actively inquire about their environment. While self-adaptive is an appropriate adjective for inquiring systems, they are critically different from self-adapting systems as they have evolved in the fields of computer science or artificial intelligence. Inquiring systems draw on epistemology to guide knowledge creation and organizational learning. As such, we can for the first time ever, begin to entertain the notion of support for "wise" decision-making. Readers of this book will gain an appreciation for the role that epistemology can play in the design of the next generation of knowledge management systems: systems that focus on supporting wise decision-making processes.
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Electronic Access:
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