Tuesday, April 24, 2012

Do we need Goal Line Technology?

Quite simply, football needs goal-line technology – sensors placed in the ball and goalmouth that would be triggered when the entire ball has crossed the entire goal line, to signal a goal. Football needs this technology now, in all leagues where it is practical to do so. Furthermore, it is high time FIFA stopped burying its collective head in the sand over this issue.
First example was in world cup 2010 when england face germany ,when the Germans lead 2-1,Frank lampard shot through manuel neuer's goal net,it against the bar but the balls rebound through the goal line,if you saw it in camera it's clearly goal..buat neuer catch it easily and the reaferee said no goal.. its really controversial incident,and the final result is germans can make 2 more goal again..and make them won 4-1 there are many examples that make the team feels harmful by the refferee's decision...
And the latest example is when chelsea beat tottenham 5-1 in FA Cup semifinal,the second goal from Juan Mata is not valid because its never through the goal line,but the referee said its a goal.. the controversy still exist until now..do we need goal line technology? well if you ask it to me i will answer yes,than how about you?

Chapter 3:Theorizing Knowledge in Organizations

In order to better understand the notion of “managing” knowledge, there is a need to better understand what it is about knowledge flow in organizations that lends itself to any form of management. The process view, on the other hand, largely emphasizes the emergent nature of knowledge that is often embedded within a person or within organizational routines, activities, and outcomes, or arises from the interplay of persons and existing information or knowledge.


In the course of innovation and production of goods and services, information and knowledge are regarded as central inputs to organizational processes. Learning and knowledge are then seen as direct outcomes of activities performed commensurate with the organization’s central mission and core competencies. Whether as a resource or as a process, for organizations that have begun to recognize organizational knowledge as a source of competitive advantage, knowledge generation and retention have become strategic necessities for such knowledge dependent firms.

While knowledge it self may be perceived as a resource, its creation occurs through human interactions, whether physical or virtual. For example, for knowledge to emerge from within a group, interactions that occur among its members shape the knowledge that emerges from the mutual engagement and participation of the group members. Those with a communication and interaction perspective have argued that through discourse and dialectics, individuals shape and re-shape the thought processes of others, eventually leading to a situation of negotiated or mutually co-constructed reasoning for action and knowledge [von Krogh et al.,1998].Sense-making [Weick, K.,1995] is then seen as an activity that reaffirms whether the decisions and actions taken are rational in hindsight, constituting the “knowledge” that is created. Nonaka and Takeuchi [1995] in their seminal work have also alluded to knowledge creation as a process of socialization that is predicated on the need for direct social interactions.

Instead of examining knowledge per se, Blackler, F. [1995] and others propose that attention should focus on systems through which knowing and doing are achieved. By suggesting an alternative stance of knowing as mediated, situated, provisional, pragmatic, and contested, as opposed to a more classic view of knowledge as embodied, embrained, encultured, and encoded, Blackler recognizes that knowledge permeates activity systems within the organization. Building on Engeström, Y. [1999] general model of socially distributed activity systems, Blackler, F. [1995] proposes that knowledge can be observed as emerging out of the tensions that arise within an organization’s activity systems, that is, among individuals and their communities, their environment (rules and regulations), and the instruments and resources that mediate their activities.


Through immersion in joint activity, individuals in organizations gain tacit knowledge, the sharing of which occurs as a result of the mutual participation [Tsoukas, H., 1996].

Chapter 2 :Background Bibliographic analysis

One measure of the influence of a discipline is to track the “formal communications” or published works in that discipline [Koenig,M., 2005, Ponzi, L., 2004]. Ponzi observed that “knowledge management is one emerging discipline that remains strong and does not appear to be fading”[Ponzi, L.,2004, p. 9]. Articles about KM were and are being published in the fields of computer science, information systems, management, engineering, communication, and library and information science. The significance of the KM growth pattern becomesmuch more apparent when one compares it with the pattern of other major business enthusiasms of recent years. The difference is dramatic. Quality Circles, Business Process Engineering, and Total Quality Management all show an almost identical pattern of approximately five years of dramatic, exponential, growth, then they peak and fall off to near nothing almost as quickly. KM, by contrast, has that same period of five years of exponential growth, 1994 to 1999, but in the decade since it has not declined, rather it has continued to grow steadily and consistently. All the hallmarks are here of a rather permanent development. There has also been substantial interest in the academic world concerning KM.The database ‘Dissertations and Theses’ includes bibliographic information about theses published by graduate students at accredited North American institutions from 1861, and from 50 European universities since 1988. A search of the database showed that all of the dissertations and theses with ‘knowledge management’ in the title or in the key word fields have been published since 1996.
The significance of the KM growth pattern becomes much more apparent when one compares it with the pattern of other major business enthusiasms of recent years. Below (Figure 2.2) are the literature growth patterns of three of those major business enthusiasms. The difference is dramatic. Quality Circles, Business Process Engineering, and Total Quality Management all show an almost identical pattern of approximately five years of dramatic, exponential, growth, then they peak and fall off to near nothing almost as quickly. KM, by contrast, has that same period of five years of exponential growth, 1994 to 1999, but in the decade since it has not declined, rather it has continued to grow steadily and consistently. All the hallmarks are here of a rather permanent development.

Tuesday, April 17, 2012

Chapter one : The Introduction of Knowledge Management



What is Knowledge Management?


Three classic definitions of  KM ones are presented here. At the very beginning of the KM movement, Davenport,T. (1994) offered the following:
"Knowledge management is the process of capturing,distributing and effectively using knowledge"

A few years later, the Gartner Group created the second definition of KM, which is perhaps the most frequently cited one (Duhon, 1998):
“A discipline that promotes an integrated approach to identifying, capturing, evaluating, retrieving, and sharing all of an enterprise’s information assets. These assets may include databases, documents, policies, procedures, and previously uncaptured expertise and experience in individual workers.”


The third definition by McInerney, C. [2002] is that :
“KM is an effort to increase useful knowledge within the organization. Ways to do this include encouraging communication, offering opportunities to learn, and promoting the sharing of appropriate knowledge objects or artifacts.”
The stages of knowledge management is :
The First stage is “By the Internet out of Intellectual Capital”:
  • Information Technology
  • Intellectual Capital
  • The Internet (including intranets, extranets, etc.)
  •  Key Phrases: “best practices,” later replaced by the more politic “lessons learned”

The Second stage is "Human and cultural dimensions, the HR, Human Relations stage"

  •  Communities of Practice
  • Organizational Culture
  • The Learning Organization (Senge), and
  • Tacit Knowledge (Nonaka) incorporated into KM
  •  Key Phrase: “communities of practice”

The Third stage is "Content and Retrievability"

  • Structuring content and assigning descriptors (index terms)
  • Key Phrases: “ content management” and “taxonomies”

The Fourth is stage is " Access to External Information"
  • Emphases upon External Information and the recognition of the Importance of Context
  • Key Terms: “context” and “extranet”

Sunday, April 15, 2012

Glimpse of the Knowledge Management



What do you know about Knowledge Management?
Knowledge management is planning,collecting,organizing,leading,and control data and information that have been joined with many style of idea analysis from many reliable sources.

-Flow of knowledge management and the interaction
 Set a knowledge is a habit,when a process or activity in a business,an actor of knowledge management incline a method to analyze it.In Analyzing it has something called knowledge flow

1.Creation of knowledge : a step to introduce a new knowlege to a system,including developing and research finding

2.Retention : Is a step to save a knowledge into a system to keep it durable.This process protect the relation between a knowledge and system

3.Transfer : About activity for transfer the knowledge from one party to the others.Including communication,translation,convertion,filtering and alteration

4.Utiliation : The related activity with a knowledge application to business process,including stage of knowledge use.

-Tools of Knowledge
 Tools of knowledge can be in various forms,for example:document,paper,book,conversation,newspaper,email,billboard,painting,imagination and whatever form it can be understand and have a meaning.



Tuesday, April 10, 2012

The Inspiring Adventure : The Motorcycle Diaries

The motorcycle Diaries or Diarios de motocicleta is a biography's spanish-language movie based on true story from the adventure of the young Ernesto "Fuser" Guevara or almost known as Che Guevara and his friend Alberto Granado.movie cast as a young guevara is mexican actor Gael Garcia Bernal and Rodrigo de la serna as young granado.
 The dramatization of a motorcycle road trip Che Guevara went on in his youth that showed him his life's calling.


Many people know Guevara as a Marxism Revolutioner in south America,but the real background of Guevara is a dermatologist who suffered from asthma in all of his life,and Alberto Granado his friend is a biochemist,they through in every place in south America with norton 500 named la poderosa (the mighty one) until he found something that really change his life philosophy on his journey..


The real Guevara really wrote this diary,and he said this journey is the reason of his new life philosophy,change him into Revolutioner,as we know him latest.. Che Guevara








This movie released in 2004 and won many awards in the world,including academy award and francois chalais awards from cannes international fim festival..


If you wanna watch this movie,you can find it in a DVD Store..


From this movie,we learned about togetherness,socialization,and meet a lot of people who can change your life which it can be better or not,and Guevara told us a lot of it from this movie.




Ernesto Guevara quotes:


"Let The World Change You and You Can Change The World"