evolves. Life is a recognizable pattern within infinite diversity??? (Tetenbaum, 1998,
p. 24). Thus the term chaos itself includes the range of knowledge integration from
absolute dispersion to absolute integration. To capture part of theses interrelationships,
Duffy (2001a) identifies key drivers in integrating knowledge (Table 6).
Creativity connects in a new way processes that cannot be captured as a single event
but result from the interaction of the elements of purpose and method. As an analogy,
we are all familiar with an optical illusion in which two lines, or tracks, seem
to converge in the distance. We might consider here one track to be information
technology (IT) and the other content. Although these two entities have always been
interdependent, the emergence of KM and strategic information management brings
not merely a convergence but a fusion of the two (???Finding Middle Ground,??? 2001).
Within the model of knowledge sharing, chaos-creativity recognizes the interaction
of all the central elements of the model, including both purpose and method.
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