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Back to Basics

Knowledge Musings

What use is a blog that has only two postings - both dated 2004? 2008 is also the year when I bring my website up to date, probably for the last time before full retirement. Right now I am semi-retired, mixing a (very) small amount of paid knowledge management consultancy with significant amounts of volunteering (e.g.

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Leveraging Collective Knowledge: NASA’s Constellation Program

Conversation Matters

They experienced the sad recognition that much of the knowledge about how to build the Saturn V rocket that took the astronauts to the moon, had retired along with the engineers who had been encouraged to take early retirement. David Delong wrote about NASA' loss in Lost Knowledge , Oxford Press 2004.