- Title:
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An Approach to Knowledge Creation
- Date:
- February 2009
- Organisations
- AFAC
- Authors:
- Jill Edwards, Manager Strategy and Knowledge, AFAC
- Location:
- Melbourne, Australia
Overview
The Vision for AFAC is ‘Fire and emergency services strengthened through sharing, collaboration and innovation’.This Vision represents the industry’s ongoing pursuit of awareness, learning, continuous improvement and excellence in serving the communities of Australasia. Managing information and enhancing the individual and collective knowledge of the industry is therefore crucial in achieving this Vision.
Knowledge is usually constructed by people through interaction with other people; through access to information; a result of experience or education and by the environment and culture in which they live and work Knowledge resides in a person’s mind, can be highly personal and is ever changing. It can be embedded in systems and processes and is a key ingredient in influencing the way people think and the choices they make.
Outlined in this paper is an approach to the creation and evolution of knowledge, an approach that simplifies a range of complex concepts into a knowledge model that has a focus on ‘thinking and interaction’ at its core.
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