Van Heerden, Johanna M2007-10-012007-10-012007-08-17Van Heerden, M. 2007. Establishing a 'knowledge commons' at the CSIR. IFLA Conference, Knowledge Management Workshop, Howard College Campus, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, 17 August 2007http://hdl.handle.net/10204/12542007: International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA) ConferenceKnowledge management facilitates team work & collaboration across boundaries. Gladwell maintains that “innovation, the heart of the knowledge economy, is fundamentally social. Ideas arise as much out of casual conversations as they do out of formal meetings. More precisely, as one study after another has demonstrated, the best ideas in any workplace arise out of casual contacts among different groups within the same company”. Casual conversations provide an opportunity for tacit knowledge transfer as they have the “advantage of opening the door to serendipity. They are opportunities for spontaneous meetings of the mind that have the potential to generate new ideas and solve old problems in unexpected ways” (Davenport & Prusak)enKnowledge commonsIFLA Conference, 17 August 2007Knowledge transferKnowledge managment strategiesKnowledge economyConference PresentationVan Heerden, J. M. (2007). Establishing a 'knowledge commons' at the CSIR. http://hdl.handle.net/10204/1254Van Heerden, Johanna M. "Establishing a 'knowledge commons' at the CSIR." (2007): http://hdl.handle.net/10204/1254Van Heerden JM, Establishing a 'knowledge commons' at the CSIR; 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10204/1254 .TY - Conference Presentation AU - Van Heerden, Johanna M AB - Knowledge management facilitates team work & collaboration across boundaries. Gladwell maintains that “innovation, the heart of the knowledge economy, is fundamentally social. Ideas arise as much out of casual conversations as they do out of formal meetings. More precisely, as one study after another has demonstrated, the best ideas in any workplace arise out of casual contacts among different groups within the same company”. Casual conversations provide an opportunity for tacit knowledge transfer as they have the “advantage of opening the door to serendipity. They are opportunities for spontaneous meetings of the mind that have the potential to generate new ideas and solve old problems in unexpected ways” (Davenport & Prusak) DA - 2007-08-17 DB - ResearchSpace DP - CSIR KW - Knowledge commons KW - IFLA Conference, 17 August 2007 KW - Knowledge transfer KW - Knowledge managment strategies KW - Knowledge economy LK - https://researchspace.csir.co.za PY - 2007 T1 - Establishing a 'knowledge commons' at the CSIR TI - Establishing a 'knowledge commons' at the CSIR UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10204/1254 ER -