University Liaison
Today our company invited the department of Computer Science at the Technical University Vienna to present current research topics and results as well as to discuss possible collaborations. I am curious about the result of this event.
In a workshop Alexander Schatten discussed issues of Agile Development of businesses as well as software and he mentioned the following quote:
Die Krisis des Wissens wird, wie gesagt, kognitiv getrieben von der neuen Relevanz des Nichtwissens, und sie wird operativ davon getrieben, dass es nun darum geht, die richtigen Fehler schneller zu machen als die Wettbewerber, um Lernprozesse zu intensivieren, die im Kern darin bestehen, Expertise im Umgang mit Nichtwissen zu entwickeln.1
in English:
The crisis of knowledge ist cognitively driven by the new relevance of nescience. Operationally it is driven by the necessity to make the right mistakes faster than the competitors to intensivate learning processes, what means developing expertise in handling nescience.
Knowledge management typically deals with the knowledge of an organisation but I like the idea of managing what we do not know better. However, wow do we know that a particular topic, technology, etc. will be relevant in the future? A company basically only invests in knowledge it can utilise later.
1 Willke Helmut. Dystopia, Studien zur Krisis des Wissens in der modernen Gesellschaft. Suhrkamp Taschenbuch Wissenschaft, Erste Auflage, 2002
