Business and Trust: Enterprise Knowledge Interchange Networks

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Table 1. E-Knowledge: Today and Tomorrow

A Revolution in Knowledge Sharing, by By Donald M. Norris, Jon Mason, Robby Robson, Paul Lefrere, and Geoff Collier

There is going to be dramatic changes between today's and tomorrow situation. Tomorrow: system will be automatically updated, channels will be provided to both explicit and tacit knowledge. Standards, tools and processes will be substantially more sophisticated, pragmatic, and useful. Standards will focus on information, not just data. Knowledge networks and communities of practice will be the epicenters of tacit knowledge creation and sharing. Automated capture and update protocols create knowledge objects that are substantially less expensive (order of magnitude(. Knowledge objects are generated automatically.

Knowledge objects and conversation-born tacit knowledge will be assembled from a wide range of sources, ranging from traditional sources to individual blogs and communities of practice.

Enterprise processes for accessing knowledge networks and for knowledge object creation, updating, and repurposing will be routinized and will achieve amenity.

Digital rights management will be about enabling people to both share knowledge and share its control.

Knowledge leverages product and service convergence (= window-dressing

Digital rights management

New market for knowledge sharing

Stability is easier to achieve by printing than by publishing on line. Once a work is published, it's done for ever, it stays as it is, and if something needs to be changed in it, it becomes another edition. Information provided on line can be very easily changed without notice. Its content can have been changed, or it can simply not exist any more. - Value

Notion of "authoritative" name now becomes contextual. There are several ways to get to the subject, but the subject itself is unique. If a subject can give rise to various nuances or facets, each of these becomes a subject as such.

Published Subjects .

"Knowledge sharing is organized according to a mix of four relational models distinguished by the relation models theory"

In: The Importance of Sociality for Understanding Knowledge, Sharing Processes in Organizational Contexts, by Niels-Ingvar BOER, Peter J. Van Baalen, Kuldeep Kumar, Paper provided by Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), Erasmus University, Rotterdam, in its series Discussion Paper with number 176. URL: http://ideas.repec.org/p/dgr/eureri/2002176.html.

These four models¹ are:

• communal sharing: sharing within a community.
• authority ranking: sharing between supervisor and subordinate.
• equality matching: sharing between partners.
• market pricing: sharing by selling or buying.