The 'temporary knowledge organisation' as viewed from a complexity perspective.By Kim Sbarcea and Rui Martins. The objectives of this paper are:
- to explore and develop a new concept for the disciplines of project management and knowledge management - the "temporary knowledge organisation" (TKO). The recasting of these disciplines will be achieved through the lens of complexity;
- to acknowledge that the primary tool of project management - the project team - is a network of complex responsive human connections and disconnections which coalesce around the attractor of sense-making. This human network is non-linear. Agent actions and responses may be more or less proportional to the stimulus; unexpected, emergent actions will arise; and emotions, uniformity and diversity are all played out within this human network.
- It should be noted that in order to explore and develop the notion of the TKO from a complexity perspective, traditional project management concepts must be drawn on (and ultimately rejected). 4/6/2003 |