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[Ivan Trundle]

On 04/10/2007, at 3:14 PM, Marghanita da Cruz wrote:

> Ivan what was that you said about knowledge let alone application  
> of it.

Was it this? (back in May 2007)

> <snip from the vault>
> Finding the person responsible for making autocratic decisions in a  
> distributed system ... is becoming more difficult, and finding  
> someone who actually has wisdom (and can prevail over the masses)  
> is harder still.
> </snip>

It's a pet hobby horse of mine since the term 'knowledge manager'  
started appearing in the lexicon of the workplace. Seen as a step  
beyond 'information manager', it really had little value at all back  
then (or indeed now), since the person in that position was only  
responsible for the management of information, and not knowledge.

My cynical response to this - and it didn't go down to well in the  
sector in which I then worked - was published in a monthly magazine  
(and their website search engine has changed since I left, so I can't  
find it).

In this article,  I postulated the next logical step: that of the  
title of 'Wisdom Manager', which will undoubtedly come into existence  
when we have too many Knowledge Managers. At that time, everyone will  
be an Information Manager anyway, so new descriptors will be needed.  
The grand poobah will, of course, be the Chief Wisdom Officer, and  
she will indeed know that the answer is 42, and will be God.

iT