On relationship of futures research and knowledge management
Saukkonen, Juha; Kreus, Pia (2021)
Academic conferences international
2021
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Knowledge management modelling has lately mostly focused on taxonomies for contents of knowledge action (e.g. creation, protection, exploitation, dissemination) and resource-requirements for KM (e.g. chief knowledge officers´ role, Intellectual Capital, KM systems). The literature on KM does contain individual remarks on the dynamic nature of knowledge and its management, but does not include the time-dependency in its frameworks. The concepts of agility and increased volatility propose that a firm´s knowledge and processes on it are in a flux. Knowledge is not only accumulative but knowledge also inflates over time. Anticipation of future knowledge has rarely been inbuilt into KM frameworks.
Some researchers (e.g. Kaivo-oja & Laureaeus, 2017; Rechberg, 2018) have presented reasoning as to how the futures-dimension should be incorporated into KM. Berry and Johnston-Jewell (2014) proposed a link in the opposite direction, proposing that KM approach and practices have the potential to improve futures foresight. The time-moderation (of futures) on knowledge and KM is thus a required dimension for framework building.
This paper reviews the prior-art literature on the topic in the form of a brief bibliographic study. The research database Google Scholar is screened for relationships between KM and time/future-related concepts in research titles through Boolean search. The paper summarizes the findings of the analysis with a proposal of elements and their relationships needed for a dynamic knowledge management framework, where the axis of time is interwoven into the framework. A prospective framework for dynamic KM process is depicted for further study and elaboration to continue the KM framework development further from the proposals made by Saukkonen (2020).
Some researchers (e.g. Kaivo-oja & Laureaeus, 2017; Rechberg, 2018) have presented reasoning as to how the futures-dimension should be incorporated into KM. Berry and Johnston-Jewell (2014) proposed a link in the opposite direction, proposing that KM approach and practices have the potential to improve futures foresight. The time-moderation (of futures) on knowledge and KM is thus a required dimension for framework building.
This paper reviews the prior-art literature on the topic in the form of a brief bibliographic study. The research database Google Scholar is screened for relationships between KM and time/future-related concepts in research titles through Boolean search. The paper summarizes the findings of the analysis with a proposal of elements and their relationships needed for a dynamic knowledge management framework, where the axis of time is interwoven into the framework. A prospective framework for dynamic KM process is depicted for further study and elaboration to continue the KM framework development further from the proposals made by Saukkonen (2020).