Sri Lanka Small miracle
I found this video from chathu's blog ;Its really nice article about Sri Lanka
so felt to publish it my blog too.Credits goes to Chatura....

My trbute to Sri Lankan war heros

SpringOne june 11-12,2008 in Belgium

With 400 attendees from 25 countries in 2006 and 2007, SpringOne is truly a European conference designed specifically for the Spring Framework community.

The SpringOne conference will hold 30 sessions over 3 parallel tracks spread over 2 days, plus several keynote speakers including 'the Father of Spring' Rod Johnson.

Sessions will be led by many of the core developers on the Spring framework, including Juergen Hoeller, Rob Harrop, Adrian Colyer, Ramnivas Laddad, Ben Alex, Costin Leau as well as industry-recognized experts, thought leaders and innovators.

Click on the links above to find out more about the sessions and the speakers.

No failures Only feed back

When you fail don't disappointed, take to mind it as it not a failure of you it is feed back of activity done buy you at the past for achieve your target

Knowledge Management my new subject @ SLIIT

KM is a very ineresting subject about unbilivable & incredible human knowledge. This will help us to tune our knowledge in technical manner. I think this series of article help you a lot.

What Is KM ?

• Definitions –

• The art of creating value from an organizations’ intangible assets. – Sveiby,1997

• Knowledge management is what Organization's do – not something they can buy. – Mills,1998

• .. Collection of processes that govern the creation, dissemination and utilization of knowledge to fulfill organizational objectives.

• Knowledge management refers to the critical issues of organizational adaptation, survival and competence against discontinuous environmental change. Essentially it embodies organizational processes that seek synergistic combination of data and information processing capacity of information technologies, and the creative and innovative capacity of human beings," (Dr. Yogesh Malhotra )

• General definition -

• Capturing, organizing, and storing knowledge and experiences of individual workers and groups within an organization and making this information available to others in the organization. (web)

Why it is important ?

• Knowledge is the ultimate competitive advantage for modern firms.

• Organizations focus on “doing the right thing” rather than “doing things right”. ( Malhotra 2000)

• Focus on innovative and creative products and business process.

What Is Knowledge?

• State of knowing ( what you know about)

• The capacity for action ( Know how )

• Codified, captured and accumulated facts

Definitions

• DATA – Actual symbol of information used as a form of communication including sound and graphic. (data has no meaning)

• INFORMATION – Data in context. (information has meaning)

• KNOWLEDGE – Body of understanding and skills that is mentally constructed by people.

• WISDOM – Best use of knowledge.

Information Vs Knowledge

• INFORMATION –

• Is raw material for knowledge – Alavi 1997

• Flow of messages or meaning which will add to, restructure or change knowledge – Muchup 1983

• KNOWLEDGE –

• Takes place within the context of information and involves a mix of experience, insight, values, judgment and ideas. It is dynamic because it triggers ideas and action. – Davernport & Prusark 1998

Dimensions of Knowledge

• Knowledge is Multidimensional

• Explicit Knowledge

• Tacit Knowledge

• Implicit Knowledge

• Declarative Knowledge

• Procedural Knowledge

• Strategic Knowledge

Explicit Knowledge

• Knowledge that has been articulated

• Captured in the form of text, tables, diagrams etc….

• Formal and systematic

Tacit Knowledge

• Experiences, ideas and values

• Deeply rooted in a person’s mind

• Cannot be expressed in words or numbers

• Hard to communicate

Knowledge Management Systems

• A system for managing the gathering, refining, analyzing and disseminating of knowledge in all its forms within an organisation.

• A system that supports organisational functions while addressing the needs of the individual within a purposeful context.(Charles Jackson )

Types of KMS

• Workflow systems

• Communication Facilities

• messaging/groupware

• Intranets

• Knowledge Repositories

• DB

• KBS

Knowledge Management Frame work

Knowledge capturing

• Capturing the Tacit Knowledge and converting it to Explicit Knowledge

Knowledge Storage

• Organizing, Categorizing the Knowledge

• Storing the knowledge in some form

• Books

• Procedures/ Manuals

• Databases

Knowledge Distribution

• Making the right knowledge available to the right person at the right time.

Knowledge Application

• Using or applying the new knowledge in the day to day processes.

• When new knowledge is discovered then we can go back to the beginning of the cycle.

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