Sunday, October 12, 2003
Chief knowledge officer key to survival?

Chief knowledge officer key to survival. A recent press release for a book launch promotes the value of having a chief knowledge officer (CKO): Companies such as Kmart Holdings Corp. could have dodged bankruptcy during the 2001 recession if they had had a chief knowledge officer... [Column Two]

A pointer to an interview with Lester Thurow flogging his new book. Let's just say that Thurow has a very generous definition of what constitutes a CKO. I'd say he's more than a bit out of sync with current usage. One the other hand, this may represent an interesting data point in the argument that what we've been calling knowledge management will morph into simply "management."

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Alan Kay and Six Sigma

One of my favorite observations, which I first heard from Alan Kay, was that "point of view is worth 80 IQ points." Now, Alan is a very clever fellow, and it's only just occurred to me now, but Alan never specifies a sign for those IQ points. It's just as likely that a wrong frame of reference acts as an 80 point penalty as that a right frame provides an 80 point bonus.

This places Alan firmly in the Six Sigma camp long before the movement existed (Alan always has been a leading edge kind of guy).

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