The concept of ‘Unlearning’ (from an organisational point of view) was first formally described by Hedberg, Nystrom & Starbuck (we believe) more than 30 years ago in their paper ‘Camping on See-saws: Prescriptions for a Self-designing Organization’, for Administrative Science Quarterly, 21(1): 41–6. [* see note below] However, scroll forward to 2016 for an update […]
Tag: unknown
Unthought knowns, unknown thoughts, and such stuff
As Distinguished Eagle Scout Donald Rumsfeld famously put things back in 2002 : “There are known knowns (the things we know we know) but we also know there are known unknowns (that is to say we know there’s some things we do not know) but there are also unknown unknowns (the ones we don’t know […]
Organizational ignorance (Towards a managerial perspective on the unknown)
Those interested in the management of organisations may already be aware that the concept of ‘Ignorance Management’ has its own page at Wikipedia. A definition was first provided in 2012 by John Israilidis Antoniou and colleagues at Loughborough University, UK. [source] “Ignorance Management is a process of discovering, exploring, realising, recognising and managing ignorance […]