Truth,Information and Data
May 6, 2014 at 11:44 am | Posted in Collage, Education paradigms, Mindfulness, Personal Knowledge Management, التعقيد Complexity | Leave a commentTags: DAMA, Data, Data Management Association, information, Knowledge, truth, Wisdom
“Data is the foundation of information ,knowledge, and ultimately , wisdom and informed action.
Is data truth? Not necessarily! Data can be inaccurate,incomplete,out of date, and misunderstood.For centuries,philosophers have asked,”What is truth?”,and the answer remains elusive.
On a practical level,truth is,to some extent,information of the highest quality-data, that is available,relevant,complete,accurate ,consistence,timely,usable,meaningful,and understood.
Organizations that recognize the value of data can take concrete,proactive steps to increase the the quality of data and information.”
What I liked about this definition, from the Data Management Association DAMA guide to the data management body of knowledge,is the precaution taken when defining the relation between information and truth in an organizational context ,these can be noticed in the phrases “On a practical level” and “to some extent”!. While it can be an scientific way of writing still it amaze me in the knowledge era.
The second observation is about the first sentence,precisely about the order of Data,information,then knowledge which is alright with me,but wisdom and informed action, it could make more sense to me,without the organizational context,if it was flipped so informed action and wisdom.
Methodological Pluralism
March 6, 2014 at 11:08 am | Posted in Collage, Education paradigms, Personal Knowledge Management, Well-being | Leave a commentTags: Common sense, Knowledge, methodological level, Midgley, own methodological ideas, prospectively, retrospectively, Russel Ackoff
Knowledge cannot be seen as cumulative (building into a more and more accurate picture of reality) so the theories should be seen as more or less useful in terms of the purposes of the intervention being pursued and there always an agent making choices amongst a plurality of options and we should talk in terms of locally relevant rather than universal standards for choice. At the methodological level respecting the fact that others might have useful insights that we may learn from in constructing our own methodological ideas and the level of methods we can draw upon methods originally produced within other methodologies (Midgley , 2000 , p. 168 ) .
Cloud Computing is a sustaining innovation and some of its applications are disruptive innovations
November 22, 2013 at 1:20 pm | Posted in Collage, Education paradigms, Personal Knowledge Management | Leave a commentTags: Clayton M. Christensen, Cloud Computing, disruptive innovation, Disruptive Technologies, disruptive technology, sustaining innovation
Cloud Computing the current hype trend in IT are commonly described as a disruptive innovation by the industry giants,where i see it through the following definitions as a sustaining innovation , at the same time according to the same definitions some of the applications of the Cloud Computing are disruptive innovation but they are still emerging and are under the radar, so when looking for this applications you will not find it in the common market as a common product offered by the industry giants.
The term disruptive technologies was coined by Clayton M. Christensen and introduced in his 1995 article Disruptive Technologies Catching the Wave, which he co-wrote with Joseph Bower.Christensen replaced the term disruptive technology with disruptive innovation because he recognized that few technologies are intrinsically disruptive or sustaining in character; rather, it is the business model that the technology enables that creates the disruptive impact.
There are two basic types of innovation—sustaining and disruptive—that follow different trajectories and lead to different results.
Sustaining innovations help leading, or incumbent, organizations make better products or services that can often be sold for better profits to their best customers. They serve existing customers according to the original definition of performance— that is, according to the way the market has historically defined what’s good.
Disruptive innovations are not breakthrough technologies that make good products better; rather they are innovations that transform sectors to make products affordable and convenient, thereby making them available to a much larger population. Disruptive innovations do not try to bring better products to existing customers in established markets. Instead, they offer a new definition of what’s good.
Initially, a disruptive innovation is formed in a niche market that may appear unattractive or inconsequential to industry incumbents, but eventually the new product or idea completely redefines the industry.
Characteristics of disruptive businesses, at least in their initial stages, can include: lower gross margins, smaller target markets, and simpler products and services that may not appear as attractive as existing solutions .
Some examples of disruptive innovation include:
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| Personal computers | Mainframe and mini computers |
| Wikipedia | Traditional encyclopedias |
see more at: http://www.claytonchristensen.com/key-concepts/#sthash.TfHZe9nH.dpuf
A common misreading of the theory of disruptive innovation is that disruptive innovations are good and sustaining innovations are bad. This is false. Sustaining innovations are vital to a healthy and robust sector, as organizations strive to make better products or deliver better services to their best customers.
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1-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disruptive_innovation
Meaning of life From Wikipedia,Popular views
November 1, 2013 at 11:22 am | Posted in Collage, Education paradigms, Mindfulness, Personal Knowledge Management, Well-being, التعقيد Complexity | Leave a comment“What is the meaning of life?” is a question many people ask themselves at some point during their lives, most in the context “What is the purpose of life?”.[10] Some popular answers include:
To realize one’s potential and ideals
- To spend it for something that will outlast it.[145]
- To matter: to count, to stand for something, to have made some difference that you lived at all.[145]
- To expand one’s potential in life.[144]
- To become the person you’ve always wanted to be.[146]
- To become the best version of yourself.[147]
- To seek happiness[148][149] and flourish.[3]
- To be a true authentic human being.[150]
- To be able to put the whole of oneself into one’s feelings, one’s work, one’s beliefs.[145]
- To follow or submit to our destiny.[151][152][153]
- To achieve eudaimonia,[154] a flourishing of human spirit.
To achieve biological perfection
- To survive,[155] that is, to live as long as possible,[156] including pursuit of immortality (through scientific means).[157]
- To live forever[157] or die trying.[158]
- To evolve.[159][160]
- To replicate, to reproduce.[143] “The ‘dream’ of every cell is to become two cells.”[161][162][163][164]
To seek wisdom and knowledge
- To expand one’s perception of the world.[144]
- To follow the clues and walk out the exit.[165]
- To learn as many things as possible in life.[166]
- To know as much as possible about as many things as possible.[167]
- To seek wisdom and knowledge and to tame the mind, as to avoid suffering caused by ignorance and find happiness.[168]
- To face our fears and accept the lessons life offers us.[151]
- To find the meaning or purpose of life.[169][170]
- To find a reason to live.[171]
- To resolve the imbalance of the mind by understanding the nature of reality.[172]
To do good, to do the right thing
- To leave the world as a better place than you found it.[143]
- To do your best to leave every situation better than you found it.[143]
- To benefit others.[6]
- To give more than you take.[143]
- To end suffering.[173][174][175]
- To create equality.[176][177][178]
- To challenge oppression.[179]
- To distribute wealth.[180][181]
- To be generous.[182][183]
- To contribute to the well-being and spirit of others.[184]
- To help others,[3][183] to help one another.[185]
- To take every chance to help another while on your journey here.[143]
- To be creative and innovative.[184]
- To forgive.[143]
- To accept and forgive human flaws.[186][187]
- To be emotionally sincere.[145]
- To be responsible.[145]
- To be honorable.[145]
- To seek peace.[145]
Meanings relating to religion
- To reach the highest heaven and be at the heart of the Divine.[188]
- To have a pure soul and experience God.[145]
- To understand the mystery of God.[151]
- To know or attain union with God.[189][190]
- To know oneself, know others, and know the will of heaven.[191]
- To love something bigger, greater, and beyond ourselves, something we did not create or have the power to create, something intangible and made holy by our very belief in it.[143]
- To love God[189] and all of his creations.[192]
- To glorify God by enjoying him forever.[52][193]
- To go and make new disciples of Jesus Christ.[194]
- To act justly, love mercy, and walk humbly with your God.[195]
- To be fruitful and multiply.[196] (Genesis 1:28)
- To obtain freedom (Romans 8:20-21)
- To fill the Earth and subdue it.[196] (Genesis 1:28)
To love, to feel, to enjoy the act of living
- To love more.[143]
- To love those who mean the most. Every life you touch will touch you back.[143]
- To treasure every enjoyable sensation one has.[143]
- To seek beauty in all its forms.[143]
- To have fun or enjoy life.[151][184]
- To seek pleasure[145] and avoid pain.[197]
- To be compassionate.[145]
- To be moved by the tears and pain of others, and try to help them out of love and compassion.[143]
- To love others as best we possibly can.[143]
- To eat, drink, and be merry.[198]
To have power, to be better
- To strive for power[25] and superiority.[197]
- To rule the world.[152]
- To know and master the world.[194][199]
- To know and master nature.[200]
Life has no meaning
- Life or human existence has no real meaning or purpose because human existence occurred out of a random chance in nature, and anything that exists by chance has no intended purpose.[172]
- Life has no meaning, but as humans we try to associate a meaning or purpose so we can justify our existence.[143]
- There is no point in life, and that is exactly what makes it so special.[143]
One should not seek to know and understand the meaning of life
- The answer to the meaning of life is too profound to be known and understood.[172]
- You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.[143]
- The meaning of life is to forget about the search for the meaning of life.[143]
- Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather must recognize that it is he who is asked. In a word, each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.[201]
Life is bad
Sonja Lyubomirsky’s, The How of Happiness
October 18, 2013 at 9:15 am | Posted in Collage, Education paradigms, Mindfulness, Personal Knowledge Management, Well-being, ايضاحات | Leave a commentSonja Lyubomirsky is a professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of California, Riverside and author of The How of Happiness, a book of strategies backed by scientific research that can be used to increase happiness.
The premise of The How of Happiness is (1) that happiness is worth striving for, and (2) that 50 percent of a given human’s happiness level is genetically determined (based on twin studies),10 percent is affected by life circumstances and situation, and a remaining 40 percent of happiness is subject to self control
Question Regarding Talking
September 17, 2013 at 9:52 am | Posted in Collage, Personal Knowledge Management, Well-being | Leave a commentWe Human talk .
The use of the talk to challenge, affirm, expand on each other trying to explore and figure things out .
Why I get upset when talking ?
why when I get upset I stop talking?
Why I give up figuring things out while I’m upset?
What to do not to get upset?
How to relearn talking?
Is it just talking?
The question,and the leadership book
August 29, 2013 at 7:38 pm | Posted in Collage, Education paradigms, Personal Knowledge Management, Well-being | Leave a commentTags: coaching book, Dusan Djukich, Straight-Line Leadership, Tools for Living with Velocity and Power in Turbulent Times
“How do you want to use the rest of your life?” This question is from the Straight-line leadership book and the author added a valuable notice emphasizing that the usage of our life, is not what we hope will happens to us nor the big dream we may want to attract .The author inner stance ,“ the position or mental posture you create to live your life from” as he describes in the book, that our life is a raw opportunity either we use it or lose it and the choice is our regardless of the surrounding circumstances and the inner fears.
Although the paradigm is common in the western change culture but the author tried to distinguishes his coaching methodology as an action based approach towards results.
د.ابراهيم الخليفي
July 7, 2013 at 4:55 pm | Posted in Collage, Education paradigms, Personal Knowledge Management, Well-being, المقلصد, ايضاحات | Leave a commentTags: معرفة الذات, نظرية الاختيار, التربية, الذات, العلاقات, ابراهيم الخليفي, راحة البال, صلاح البال
من عرف وسمع للدكتور ابراهيم الخليفي سيلاحظ التقدم و التطور في المعاني و المقاربات المطروحه في هذا اللقاء الجميل الذي قد اجراه مقدم برامج تلفزيوني ممتاز، اعتقد ان الدكتور ابراهيم ،وبالمنظور الذي تعلمته منه و الدكتور بشير الرشيدي ،انه انسان عرف ذاته وطورها فاصبح يتحفنا و يسعدنا بالجديد الآصيل ،اسال الله له و لنا بصلاح البال.
في مقارنة للمعاني والاتجاهات التي تحبو في اتجاهها بعض الابحاث العلمية المعاصرة و الحديثة المختصة بالانسان اجد ان الدكتور قد تجاوز بما وصل اليه الافتراضات و المقاربات التي تقوم عليها هذه الابحاث في اغلب الحيان، على سبيل المثال مفاهيم سيكلوجية الايجاب (Positive Psycology) و انماط الشخصية و العلاقات او الاتصال .
متابعة ممتعة و مفيدة و شكرا للدكتور ونفعه الله ونفعنا بعلمه ويٌسر له الشكر.
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