{"id":4219,"date":"2017-05-10T15:50:26","date_gmt":"2017-05-10T14:50:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/open-organization.com\/?p=4219"},"modified":"2017-05-10T15:50:26","modified_gmt":"2017-05-10T14:50:26","slug":"flash-food-of-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/open-organization.com\/fr\/2017\/05\/10\/flash-food-of-data\/","title":{"rendered":"(English) Flash Food of Data"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"qtranxs-available-languages-message qtranxs-available-languages-message-fr\">D\u00e9sol\u00e9, cet article est seulement disponible en <a href=\"https:\/\/open-organization.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4219\" class=\"qtranxs-available-language-link qtranxs-available-language-link-en\" title=\"English\">English<\/a>. Pour le confort de l\u2019utilisateur, le contenu est affich\u00e9 ci-dessous dans une autre langue. Vous pouvez cliquer le lien pour changer de langue active.<\/p><p>[et_pb_section bb_built=\u00a0\u00bb1&Prime;][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=\u00a0\u00bb4_4&Prime;][et_pb_text _builder_version=\u00a0\u00bb3.2.1&Prime;]<\/p>\n<p><em><em>This article is the fourth\u00a0of a series about knowledge acceleration and fragmentation, after <a href=\"https:\/\/open-organization.com\/en\/2017\/04\/19\/knowledge-flood-and-change-acceleration\/\">Knowledge Flood and Change Acceleration<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/open-organization.com\/en\/2017\/04\/26\/knowledge-creation-globalization-and-exponential-growth\/\">Knowledge creation : Globalization and Exponential Growth<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/open-organization.com\/en\/2017\/05\/03\/acceleration-of-change\/\">Acceleration of Change<\/a>.<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n<p>We often read flabbergasting announcements on an incredible growth rate of what is mistaken as knowledge. These announcements come from the Big Data battlefield, and we will take this opportunity to cool down from the excitement of those announcements and return to some clear definitions. Knowledge does not double in less than a day; those who make statements that it is doing so are mistaking knowledge for data, which may indeed be doubling that rapidly. Data should not be confused with information, which is a coherent and meaningful set of data, or with knowledge, which is an innovator\u2019s favorite raw material.<\/p>\n<p>Milan Zeleny described the four successive steps in elaboration of material for human learning:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Data, or know-nothing,<\/li>\n<li>Information, or know-what,<\/li>\n<li>Knowledge, or know-how,<\/li>\n<li>Wisdom, or know-why.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The same hierarchy is shown graphically in the figure below. Knowledge is the key ingredient in innovation. Wisdom is an even higher level of knowledge, at which global structures emerge from a cloud of details. Wisdom is very powerful, especially for strategic guidance, but R&amp;D teams operating at the frontier of knowledge rarely have access to wisdom. Indeed, wisdom takes time to emerge after a turbulent wave of fresh knowledge.<\/p>\n<p>Data is a conglomerate of many things, such as street-camera recordings, telephone and text-messaging traffic, online chats, and signals sent from various sensors. Knowledge has a higher level of elaboration: it is a ready-to-use, coherent set of information. In this book we focus mainly on knowledge level. Experts are knowledge mediators and expertise is the art of leveraging a given knowledge base. Transformation of information into knowledge is a task generally performed\u00a0by researchers and analysts. Experts typically have a research background but also know how to deal with and apply both information and knowledge. Data is accumulating at an incredible rate; however, only a small fraction of it can be transformed into information, and even less into knowledge. Knowledge is indeed growing but at a more reasonable rate than are data or even information. We would be inclined to accept for today an estimate of, say, ten years for the doubling rate of knowledge, with an error margin strongly dependent on the exact definition of knowledge.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4220\" style=\"width: 801px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/5_wkid.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4220\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4220\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/5_wkid.jpg\" alt=\"A representation of the famous WKID pyramid, this is an attempt to emphasize by use of an image the large difference in value and usefulness of the four elements constituting the knowledge chain.\" width=\"791\" height=\"364\" srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/5_wkid.jpg 791w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/5_wkid-300x138.jpg 300w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/5_wkid-768x353.jpg 768w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/5_wkid-480x221.jpg 480w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/5_wkid-560x258.jpg 560w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 791px) 100vw, 791px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4220\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A representation of the famous WKID pyramid, this is an attempt to emphasize by use of an image the large difference in value and usefulness of the four elements constituting the knowledge chain.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.fr\/Innovation-Intelligence-Commoditization-Digitalization-Acceleration\/dp\/1326125826\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2612 alignright\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/innovation-intelligence-amazon.png\" alt=\"innovation-intelligence-amazon\" width=\"203\" height=\"169\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">***<\/p>\n<p><em>This article was initially\u00a0published in the book <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.fr\/Innovation-Intelligence-Commoditization-Digitalization-Acceleration\/dp\/1326125826\">Innovation Intelligence<\/a>\u00a0(2015). It is the first\u00a0section of the fourth chapter.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_cta _builder_version=\u00a0\u00bb3.2.1&Prime; title=\u00a0\u00bbExpertise you need. Fellows you can trust\u00a0\u00bb button_text=\u00a0\u00bbGIVE IT A TRY\u00a0\u00bb button_url=\u00a0\u00bbhttps:\/\/presans.com\/sofia\/conciergerie\/ask\u00a0\u00bb url_new_window=\u00a0\u00bbon\u00a0\u00bb background_image=\u00a0\u00bb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/conciergerie.jpg\u00a0\u00bb body_font=\u00a0\u00bb|800|||||||\u00a0\u00bb custom_button=\u00a0\u00bbon\u00a0\u00bb button_text_size=\u00a0\u00bb17&Prime; button_bg_color=\u00a0\u00bb#ffffff\u00a0\u00bb button_icon=\u00a0\u00bb%%40%%\u00a0\u00bb header_font=\u00a0\u00bb|700||on|||||\u00a0\u00bb header_font_size=\u00a0\u00bb25&Prime; button_text_color=\u00a0\u00bb#182954&Prime; button_font=\u00a0\u00bb|800||on|||||\u00a0\u00bb saved_tabs=\u00a0\u00bball\u00a0\u00bb global_module=\u00a0\u00bb6637&Prime;]<\/p>\n<p>The Conciergerie platform sets up your call appointment with a Presans-vetted international expert within few days<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_cta][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>D\u00e9sol\u00e9, cet article est seulement disponible en English. Pour le confort de l\u2019utilisateur, le contenu est affich\u00e9 ci-dessous dans une autre langue. Vous pouvez cliquer le lien pour changer de langue active.<div class=\"et_pb_row et_pb_row_0 et_pb_row_empty\">\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div> This article is the fourth\u00a0of a series about knowledge acceleration and fragmentation, after Knowledge Flood and Change Acceleration,\u00a0Knowledge creation : Globalization and Exponential [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4225,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"<p><em><em>This article is the fourth\u00a0of a series about knowledge acceleration and fragmentation, after <a href=\"https:\/\/open-organization.com\/en\/2017\/04\/19\/knowledge-flood-and-change-acceleration\/\">Knowledge Flood and Change Acceleration<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/open-organization.com\/en\/2017\/04\/26\/knowledge-creation-globalization-and-exponential-growth\/\">Knowledge creation : Globalization and Exponential Growth<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/open-organization.com\/en\/2017\/05\/03\/acceleration-of-change\/\">Acceleration of Change<\/a>.<\/em><\/em><\/p><p>We often read flabbergasting announcements on an incredible growth rate of what is mistaken as knowledge. These announcements come from the Big Data battlefield, and we will take this opportunity to cool down from the excitement of those announcements and return to some clear definitions. Knowledge does not double in less than a day; those who make statements that it is doing so are mistaking knowledge for data, which may indeed be doubling that rapidly. Data should not be confused with information, which is a coherent and meaningful set of data, or with knowledge, which is an innovator\u2019s favorite raw material.<\/p><p>Milan Zeleny described the four successive steps in elaboration of material for human learning:<\/p><ul><li>Data, or know-nothing,<\/li><li>Information, or know-what,<\/li><li>Knowledge, or know-how,<\/li><li>Wisdom, or know-why.<\/li><\/ul><p>The same hierarchy is shown graphically in the figure below. Knowledge is the key ingredient in innovation. Wisdom is an even higher level of knowledge, at which global structures emerge from a cloud of details. Wisdom is very powerful, especially for strategic guidance, but R&D teams operating at the frontier of knowledge rarely have access to wisdom. Indeed, wisdom takes time to emerge after a turbulent wave of fresh knowledge.<\/p><p>Data is a conglomerate of many things, such as street-camera recordings, telephone and text-messaging traffic, online chats, and signals sent from various sensors. Knowledge has a higher level of elaboration: it is a ready-to-use, coherent set of information. In this book we focus mainly on knowledge level. Experts are knowledge mediators and expertise is the art of leveraging a given knowledge base. Transformation of information into knowledge is a task generally performed\u00a0by researchers and analysts. Experts typically have a research background but also know how to deal with and apply both information and knowledge. Data is accumulating at an incredible rate; however, only a small fraction of it can be transformed into information, and even less into knowledge. Knowledge is indeed growing but at a more reasonable rate than are data or even information. We would be inclined to accept for today an estimate of, say, ten years for the doubling rate of knowledge, with an error margin strongly dependent on the exact definition of knowledge.<\/p>[caption id=\"attachment_4220\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"791\"]<a href=\"http:\/\/open-organization.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/5_wkid.jpg\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-4220\" src=\"http:\/\/open-organization.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/5_wkid.jpg\" alt=\"A representation of the famous WKID pyramid, this is an attempt to emphasize by use of an image the large difference in value and usefulness of the four elements constituting the knowledge chain.\" width=\"791\" height=\"364\" \/><\/a> A representation of the famous WKID pyramid, this is an attempt to emphasize by use of an image the large difference in value and usefulness of the four elements constituting the knowledge chain.[\/caption]<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.fr\/Innovation-Intelligence-Commoditization-Digitalization-Acceleration\/dp\/1326125826\"><img class=\"wp-image-2612 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/open-organization.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/innovation-intelligence-amazon.png\" alt=\"innovation-intelligence-amazon\" width=\"203\" height=\"169\" \/><\/a><\/p><p style=\"text-align: center;\">***<\/p><p><em>This article was initially\u00a0published in the book <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.fr\/Innovation-Intelligence-Commoditization-Digitalization-Acceleration\/dp\/1326125826\">Innovation Intelligence<\/a>\u00a0(2015). It is the first\u00a0section of the fourth chapter.<\/em><\/p>","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[408,855,981,1117,1753],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/open-organization.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4219"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/open-organization.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/open-organization.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/open-organization.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/open-organization.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/open-organization.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4219\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/open-organization.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/open-organization.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/open-organization.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/open-organization.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}