1.4.3. KM AS THE
EXTENSION OFTHE SUCCESSFUL R&D ENVIRONMENT
Meta-Research,
or KM is the Extension of the Successful R&D Environment
Observe
KM as the movement to replicate the information environment known to be
conducive to successful R&D- rich, deep, and opencommunication and
information access - and deploy it broadly across the firm.
The
principles and practices of KM have developed in a very conducive environment,
given that in this post-industrial information age, an increasingly larger
proportion of the population consists of information workers. The role of the
researcher, considered the quintessential information worker, has been studied
in depth with a focus on identifying environmental aspects that lead to
successful research [Allen,T., 1977, Goldhar et al., 1976, Koenig,M., 1990,
1992a, 2005, Mondschein, L., 1990, Orpen, C., 1985].
KM
appears to have developed in the business community quite independently of any
knowledge of the body of research literature about research effectiveness. This
definition ofKMas the extension of the successful R&D environment may
ultimately prove to be the most straightforward and the most illuminating. An
aside is that “Silo,” as in a container/building with no windows, is used
frequently in the KM literature to refer to bits of an organization that do not
interact with the rest of the organization.
