CROP

I can say that understand and highly appreciate Bob’s thinking and knowledge processes.

"When two or more people collaborate to think about the same situation, we can refer to this as intellectual teamwork."
CROP - Communities Resolving Our Problems
http://ceap.wcu.edu/houghton/learner/basicidea.html

The Web Office
Professor Robert S. Houghton
Director of Technology
College of Education and Allied Professions
Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, North Carolina 28723, USA

"Relentless and accelerating change in our culture and communities requires equally relentless pursuit of ideas and systems that can address our problems and questions even faster than they emerge. The basic idea of the CROP web site is to discover (find and share), think about (reframe, refine) and solve these problems while learning and using the latest information technologies. The main branches at the top of the CROP web pages aid two audiences that seek to spell out and solve problems, individuals and communities. CROP's design also plans for an integration of school-based and work-based learning communities."

"CROP is a system for processing problems. In design, it is a general model for problem processing from K-12 into adulthood. It makes a clear distinction between problem processing and problem solving. Problem solving is just one sub-part of this larger problem process. The term community applies to a community of one (the community of interacting thoughts in one's own head) and to the communities of larger numbers of interacting people (within a classroom, work team, or state or nation, etc.)."

"The heart, the motor of CROP is questioning. This includes discovering, generating and sharing questions. Such skills are critical in order to move from surviving to thriving in this time of rapid change in the world. With CROP we have an ever-changing product. CROP serves as the foundation and set of solutions for organizations that wish to thrive and schools that wish to prepare learners for such organizations. CROP’s database products provide question management as a major aspect of Knowledge Management (KM)."
iThink Blog

In Latvia, on the shores of the Baltic Sea, I think on similar approach and opportunities looking into Entrepreneurial Foresight Basics/Network processes and outputs.
click the first post at EFN blog

Knowledge for Framework and Actions

Defence Knowledge and Knowledge Management
I thank John P. Girard - articles, presentations, new models of KM - framework, enablers

search a link - Canadian Military Journal
http://www.journal.dnd.ca/engraph/home_e.asp
summer 2004

Learning Systems

Webstars, Foray into online learning
Learning Systems Institute Laura Hassler , Director
The Florida State University
a link http://www.fsu.edu/~lsi/lsi/lsi.html

Florida Center for Reading Research

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Cognition

A link to Cognitive Systems Project,the UK Foresight Programme
where brains meet technology

Foresight experience in the EU, 2004

a link
ftp://ftp.cordis.lu/pub/foresight/docs/mta_finalreport.pdf to Final Report "Mid-Term Assessment of Foresight Activities", by Independent experts panel, to DG Research of the European Commission

from a new section - the Future of the EU Foresight (CORDIS. Science and Technology Foresight)
http://www.cordis.lu/foresight/future.htm

Business and futures research

http://www.z-punkt.de/english/05zpunkt.htm

Z-punkt GmbH The Foresight Company is a think tank specialised in scientific futures studies - offers framework knowledge to institutions and businesses.

Founded by Klaus Burmeister in 1997.

The Foresight Company is working in an interdisciplinary team of about 15 people, and can draw upon network of experts.

a link, Excerpt of the book by Klaus Burmeister, Andreas Neef, and Bert Beyers
Corporate Foresight pdf

a link, Corporate Foresight: Practical Experience and Results from a German Survey http://www.download.z-punkt.de/cf-prague.pdf
Cornelia Daheim is Project Manager (for International Research) at Z_punkt GmbH The Foresight Company in Essen, Germany. Z_punkt supports institutions and organizations in long-term strategic planning with futures studies services, and is also active as the German Node of the Millennium Project at the American Council for the United Nations University (http://www.stateofthefuture.org).

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How Do We Make Sense of the Future?
Analysis of Futures Research Methodology
By: Mika Aaltonen (Finland Futures Research Centre)
Theodor Barth (SINTEF, Norway)
http://acunu.org/millennium/mppc-0704/FRM-analysis.doc

(From: AC/UNU Millennium Project Finland Node
http://www.acunu.org/millennium/finland.html)

MAKING SENSE OF THE FUTURE, PAST AND PRESENT (Foresight Hindsight Insight)
"Perhaps the biggest challenge any human being or organisation faces, is how to make sense of their lives, and how to find meaning and direction for their activities. Sensemaking happens when sensible, meaningful explanations are built, evidence is extracted and linked to already existing structures, i.e. mental models, historical events, artefacts – or like in the case of this article – with a purposeful use of methods, especially constructed to do so. (March & Olsen 1976, Weick 1995, Porac & Thomas & Baden-Fuller 1989, Hopkinson 2001).

If we are unable to place a piece of information in context, the meaning of that information is lost. The ways we imagine the future, understand the past and come to grips with the present are extremely valuable in providing continuity and direction to our lives. Sensemaking is rooted in time and space, and occurs at the intersection of three horizons: past, present, and future."

FISTERA

Foresight on Information Society Technologies in the European Research Area

Thematic Network FISTERA

a link to e-publication (report)
http://fistera.jrc.es/docs/D1_Final0303_CP_PDMR.pdf
Review and Analysis of Selected National Foresight Exercises. 2003. (Austria, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hungary, Spain, Sweden, the United Kingdom)

Outputs of a workshop in Tallinn

02/03/2005

about Knowledge management and the Lisbon strategy
Principles

LEARNING
ASK HELP
SHARING KNOWLEDGE

learning by doing
ask help
sharing knowledge - intangible and material values

a link to e-publication
Developing and implementing Knowledge Management in the Parliament of Finland. 2002.