Philip William Sisson

Purpose – This article examines organizational learning models to develop a mental model integrating them as an input to generalizing Knowledge Management (KM). Before Senge’s coining of the term learning organization, and more recently with Marquardt’s (2002) Systems Learning Organization Model (SOLM), researchers have presented different aspects...

The purpose of this article is to present a mental model of knowledge as a concept map as an input to knowledge management (KM) investigations. This article’s extended knowledge concept map can serve as a resource where the investigation, development, or application of knowledge would be served with a broad mental model of knowledge. Previously unr...

The purpose of this paper is to suggest how to begin to teach Knowledge Management (KM) fundamentals and skills starting in primary school. It connects competency objectives and KM skills instruction, identifies fundamental KM skills to teach, and suggests needed skills for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) in terms of STEM o...

The Unified Theory of Knowledge Management explains what Knowledge Management (KM) is. This document also shows the theory's operationalized functions (activities), KM competencies, and KM roles. In addition, it provides links to the dissertation on ProQuest (open access) and GW ScholarSpace. ==> ==> ==> SCROLL DOWN PAST ADS <== <== <====> ==> D...

The presentation is a quick overview of the author's conference paper, Exploring Elegant and Practical Explanation Age® Concepts: KM as Learning." The presentation notes on slide 14 provide more information on how somebody can apply the concepts. For details on the concepts, the paper will need to be reviewed.

Purpose: This paper reviews the elegant and practical concepts developed by John Lewis in The Explanation Age® by expanding the summary from Sisson’s 2023 Unified Theory of Knowledge Management dissertation literature review. Approach: The integrated concepts are discussed individually, as well as in relation to their implications. Contents: The Ex...

=======> Link to Working Notes Only <====== The dissertation, "Verifying the Unified Theory of Knowledge Management's Operationalized Functions Using Macro Verb and Attribute Concepts," conducted tests to verify the sufficiency and necessity of the theory's seven functions. Download working notes from the Internet Archive ( https://archive.org/de...

A common, accepted viewpoint of knowledge management (KM) has been elusive. The Unified Theory of Knowledge Management postulates three competencies with seven operationalized functions. This dissertation conducts verification using system engineering approaches to support the assertion that the seven operationalized functions of the Unified Theory...

==> == > This document only contains backup notes <== <== The dissertation, “Verifying the Unified Theory of Knowledge Management's Operationalized Functions Using Macro Verb and Attribute Concepts,” conducted tests to verify the sufficiency and necessity of the theory’s seven functions. The verification needed verbs to use as requirements for te...

This paper reports on findings from a seventeen-year systems approach investigation into the Knowledge Management (KM) domain, reviewing and reporting on system approach results into KM models commonality. Observations resulting from research papers developing the Unified Theory of Knowledge Management are consolidated into dissertation findings. O...

Source verbs were defined as requirements by looking at KM publications. KM's operationalized functions are verified by tracing macro concepts back to the requirements.

This is the accepted dissertation defense for Verifying the Unified Theory of Knowledge Management's Operationalized Functions Using Macro Verb and Attribute Concepts.

keywords/phrases: knowledge management; unified theory; KM centric, global KM, organic functions Purpose: This poster aims to present a visualization of Knowledge Management (KM) KM-centric and global KM functions. Approach: Synthesize a systems viewpoint based on a systems approach analysis of the Unified Theory of KM’s operationalized functions...

The purpose of this poster is to explore the essence of Knowledge Management (KM) in terms of “Hermagoras of Temnos’s (1 BC) list of ‘a constellation of circumstances’” (Leff, 1983, pp. 28-29). – forensic news terms (Pompper, 2005, p. 816)). Deduction and induction examine a Unified Theory of KM model that includes KM competencies and KM roles and...

Presentation accompanies conference paper. It contains updated visualizations and examples of using the revised Bloom's Taxonomy of Educational Objectives to teach KM skills and STEM skills.

Abstract: This paper continues verification of the Unified Theory of Knowledge Management’s(KM) operationalized functions by looking for sufficiency when comparing them to verbs used in 100 KM articles. Multiple methods (qualitative approaches, mixed methods, and text analysis) were used to compare verbs from 100 classics identified by Serenko and...

Presentation accompanies conference paper. It contains visualizations for some of the test verb collections, addresses next steps, and shows some preliminary results.

The paper identifies KM competencies by examining the unrecognized indications that KM concepts independently exist in educational systems. It suggests introducing KM education and training in primary, secondary, and vocational schools and a shift to specifying educational objectives based on competencies rather than subject. Qualitative approaches...

This poster looks at organic functions for a number of disciplines. It identifies leadership and management, finance, asset management, information technology, engineering, and science as Knowledge Application Disciplines (KADs). Learning, organizational learning, and 8 ways to learn as well as Bloom's Taxonomy of Educational Objectives interpretin...

The purpose of this paper is to introduce the concept of organic and fundamental functions for knowledge disciplines, and suggest functional differences between KM and the knowledge application disciplines such as management, engineering and development, finance, human resources, problem solving, etc., based on each set of organic functions and ind...

Purpose: This paper aims to clarify the need for Chief Knowledge Officers (CKOs) and explain how some recent views on competencies for educational guidelines, a Knowledge Management (KM) competency model and expansion of practice management concepts make the need for CKOs clearer. Design/methodology/approach: This viewpoint was developed in respons...

This paper examines evidence that the Unified Competency Theory of Knowledge Management (KM) has merit as a precursor to selecting the first formal justification approach. The theory postulates KM can be explained by three competencies that are operationalized as accumulating and organizing (kennacy), using and reasoning about (cognitacy), and repr...

This poster summarizes research into a competency term for Knowledge Management (KM) and the other competencies that should comprise basic education that were discovered at the same time. Suggested definitions are included.

This poster is an update of one presented at GWU Research Days, March 29, 2016. A graphic placeholder in the educational area was relabeled from Hierarchy of Educational Objectives to Classification and the ranges of suggested educational competencies shown. In the proceedings, paradigm shifts were replaced with questions for future research. This...

Research into identifying a competency term for KM resulted in three terms, clarified some common educational guidelines by specifying competency terms, added competency terms for the three domains of Bloom’s Taxonomy, and suggests an additional competency term for creating, making and doing. The presentation includes definitions for the new terms,...

Unpublished papers suggest educational objectives should address skills and competencies rather than subjects. this document contains suggested definitions for those competencies.

(In work for update to article, What Do We Know? - Building A Knowledge Concept Map)

“A medium is any social or technological procedure or device that is used for the selection, transmission, and reception of information.” – Altheide and Snow (1979) This presentation explains where mediumacy fits into the Unified Theory of Knowledge Management and ties to media theory; Example of KM mediums are provided.

In researching Knowledge Management (KM) competencies from a new viewpoint, people and institutions, and then information, were recognized as knowledge containers. That opened the door to examining mediums as vehicles for storing and communicating knowledge and mediumacy as the general competency for doing both. It encompasses mediums that represen...

Poster presented at The George Washington University (GWU) Research Days, March 29, 2016. Updated, March 30, 2016 with additional relationships and the Hierarchy of Educational Objective concept box.

Knowledge Management Research Report

The Unified Theory of Knowledge Management (KM) answers decade long calls for a general model of KM by identifying one based on required KM competencies. Operationalized, KM is knowledge accumulating, organizing, using, reasoning about, representing, storing, and communicating knowledge. The authors conducted exploratory research using systems eng...

Presentation begins with some of the approach that led to discovering kennacy and then follows with a definition of the Unified Theory of KM as envisioned at that time. Subsequent slides show an integrated model of sub functions of kennacy and cognitacy and mediumacy mediums. The title page introduces relationships between four postulated KM roles...

The Oxford Dictionary of Psychology states knowledge is “anything that is known” (Colman 2009: praxis) (Colman 2009: knowledge). Forensic news focuses on the core elements of “who, what, when, where, why and how” (Pompper 2005: 816; Wilson & Ibrahim 2011) to explain an event. But what we know is more than just these six. This paper examines “What...

Poster used with conference paper (tied for Best Poster)