Knowledge Versus Trash

The biggest conundrum any organisation wishing to add "Knowledge" to its assets and bottomlines faces is that of differentiating between vital knowledge and just plain trash. Huge amounts are spent annually on storing data of all kinds as part of Knowledge. Emails, internal communications, memos, MoMs, you name it, the organisation has it.

All Knowledge pundits agrees that the key differentiator between good, core "knowledge" and just plain chaff thats exchanged within and external to an organisation, is the component called re-usability.

The moment one steps into this domain, Pundits pull out their tablets, indexed and normalized effectively, to come up with as many definitions to "re-usability" as they have for Knowledge.

In the series of articles that I intend maintaining on IT Vidya, I shall try to explore and present various facets of Knowledge, pertinent to the person, the function, the location and the enterprise as a whole.

I invite comments, critiques, appreciations and all other expressions as I set out on this journey of mine.