Review

The Global Knowledge Primer

by Debra M. Amidon, published by Entovation International
Reviewed by Xenia Stanford

The Entovation International website says that The Global Knowledge Primer has hundreds of pages of articles, which seems like a strange definition for this innovative book produced electronically allowing you to open windows and flow through them to read the various articles.

The description continues saying it "provides you with a window into the evolution of the knowledge movement, a variety of facets of knowledge practice and a glimpse of the core trends and future vision of the Knowledge Economy".

This book opens many windows like facets on a prism (one of the images used) and flows easily back, forth and through them. It is also lthe lotus blossom, the symbol on the Entovation site, opening up to reveal unfathomable depths to explore.

The windows of profitability, economic vitality and sustainability are all opened at once allowing us to view these different perspectives simultaneously while we check out the practices and policies of knowledge leaders and innovators.

It does live up to its promise of showing us the evolution of the knowledge movement and development of practices, trends and vision. It also exposes us to the common language spread across functional responsibilities, different industries and from all parts of the globe - hence the global knowledge primer.

Reading a document about knowledge management and finding a reference to holonomy? Not in the dictionary? Find out about this and other knowledge management terms and concepts from reading this global knowledge primer.

The material, which contains the historic as well as the latest innovative, is organized as follows:

1. Overview
2. The ENTOVATION Network
3. The Knowledge Value Proposition
4. Knowledge and Innovation Trends
5. Focus on Functions
6. Focus on Enterprises
7. Focus on the World
8. Focus on ENTOVATION

Being AD or auditory-digital according to Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP), I like numbered and sequenced items. There is plenty in here to appeal to my type as there are several lists, not the least of which is the 7 C's of knowledge. It is almost like the author read my thoughts by telepathy as I have compiled a list of as many C words as I could think of that applied to knowledge: culture, communication and so on. Amidon adds a few I did not have on my list and shows these as a comprehensive view of the concept of knowledge.

Then she gives the three essentials for knowledge leadership:

1. Understanding the underlying roots and research base
2. Exposure to examples of best practice and case stories
3. Envisioning future action.

The author also appeals to the visual, my second NLP preferential method for understanding and learning, by the Entovation Holonomy diagram showing the growth from the individual to societal organizations. (Figure reproduced with permission from Entovation International. All rights reserved by Entovation International.)

Then we are encouraged to use this and the compendium The Architectural Primer (see Review) to discover how to lead our enterprises in the Knowledge Economy. Through these two e-tomes I am still learning and discovering more in the fragrant depths of the lotus blossom.

Still we are further implored to become a participant in the Community of Knowledge Practice and then to let the author know our progress. Watch out or you may end up on The Global Knowledge Leadership Map like I did!

Get your own window to the past, present and future now entirely free on the Internet. Access the full text of the Global Knowledge Primer.

See also The Global Knowledge Leadership Map.

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