| October sees the death of Robert Solow's gloomy prognosis "We see the computer age everywhere except in the productivity statistics." Instead IT investments are now breaking new ground encouraging the momentum of widespread experience and intensive use in developing new, IT inspired, ways of doing business.... Much of knowledge management (KM) thinking has, like poor IT implementations delivered new implementations of the old ways of working. s To capitalise on the value of knowledge companies should design their information structures to encourage collaboration and attract new partnerships.... An asset based, proprietary company taxonomy will be seen as irrelevant like trading in Esperanto.... For knowledge management the new focus is on the communities of contribution and away from the palaces of production... Like all other architectures of communication, knowledge can encourage participation and needs to be open to others.... With Digital Rights Management the terrors of accidental disclosure or deliberate theft are much.. Flat pack furniture or self-service garages are both examples of a volunteer workforce replacing paid employees enabled by a technology and structure that allows everyone to take part.... To force the change we must present our knowledge to our partners and collaborators and extend the geography of our companies from the palaces of production to the communities of contribution
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