There is a limitless amount of free floating air in our environment; this air is available when get up from bed, escapes our clothing when we get inside, fills our car when we drive around, passes right through to our lungs, moves around in our office space, the sound travels through it, its interfered with all electronic waves, induces green house effect, as a gale sinks ships, as a tornado whips the planet, it burns as fuel gas , drives combustion, equipments that cools it or heats it as to accommodate luxuries, well…. this is floating air. This is the property of Knowledge too; there it free floats among the people, in markets, in space, in business, in technology, in medicine, on race tracks, in schools, in a train, on mountains, in observatories, in nuclear labs, in the dept of defense, in the road side burger shop. Wherever you go, whatever you see / hear / feel, all has its relative knowledge floating in some cerebral pocket of gray matter.
In a focused [or] applied environment i.e., [domain specific and task intensive] where the core function revolves around a host of supportive processes, there is a rich amount of this knowledge floating around. Take for example a hospital, the diagnosis department based on its complexity and existence would have in its people vast amounts of data that they depend on virtually which they have gained either by experience or by a knowledge transfers. They will have their set of best practices and a matured set of to-do’s that would give them a edge over competition or help build a more efficient and strong business / process ecosystem with transcendental benefits across a wide spectrum.
Capturing, Processing, Leveraging knowledge is Knowledge engineering. Knowledge available in a fluid state is captured for processing; the process knowledge can be leveraged and capitalized.
Jesu Valiant
ForgEdge/.. 