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Max Henri Boisot (11 November 1943 – 7 September 2011) was a British architect and management consultant who was professor of Strategic Management at the ESADE business school in Barcelona. Boisot was known for his ideas about the information economy, the Information Space, social capital and social learning theory.
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Failure to properly conceptualize the nature of knowledge assets condemns firms.
Knowledge is a property of agents predisposing them to act in particular circumstances.
Information establishes a relation between things and agents.
Data itself can be thought of as an energetic phenomenon that links us in our capacity as knowing subjects to an external physical world.
Although in practice innovative coding is hard to disentangle from innovative theorizing, the latter, over time, has a far greater impact than the former on how we perceive and interpret the world.
Only firms that can handle a full SLC, together with the multiple cultures required to drive it, will be able to cope with the many and conflicting demands of a complex regime.
Data is discrimination between physical states of things (black, white, etc.) that may convey or not convey information to an agent. Whether it does so or not depends on the agent's prior stock of knowledge.
The thinking that underpins strategic planning is a legacy of more stable times when the environment was changing sufficiently slowly for an effective corporate response to emerge from methodical organisational routines.
[Knowledge assets are] stocks of knowledge through which different value added services flow.
Knowledge management often generates theories that are too general or abstract to be easily testable. In some cases, simulation modeling can help. [WE have developed] an agent-based simulation model derived from a conceptual framework, the Information Space or I-Space and use it to explore the differences between a neoclassical and a Schumpeterian information environment.
M. H., Canals, A., & MacMillan, I (2004)
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