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In-Cloud Knowledge platform for CU

Zoltán Baracskai

Neverending Beta Tools for Knowing

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experience in education

� business pros don’t want to come back to BS

� don’t want the same/updated models for the third time from the same lecturers

� not interested in artificial case studies

� business pros don’t want to go to corporate trainings

� they do group dynamics on daily basis

� the rest is useless

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experience in coaching

� business pros want the coaches to

� help them update their knowledge with relevant new concepts

� help them apply their knowledge in a new context

� help them (re-)arrange their few thousand known rules

� help them make their knowledge transparent

� for themselves and

� for their executives

� business pros want to have dialogs with someone who understands the broad context

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the concept of the bridge

� bridge can be built only between two stable points

� the university

� introduces (uptodate) concepts and the web of relations between them

� creates ambient for curiosity

� the corporation

� puts the new concept(s) into their context

� validates the new concept(s) in their context

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cultural framing

� Middle-East Europe and the West Balkan

� the German-speaking engineers with good knowledge of philosophy

� the English-speaking finance specialists with limited knowledge of philosophy

� the Faceook-speaking graduates with no knowledge of philosophy: the Shallows

� past -> present -> possible

� knowledge increase for the (possible) Shallows

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different routes

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so many beta tools

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In-Cloud Knowledge platform for CU

Viktor Dörfler

Neverending (Re-)Contextualization of Knowing

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types of knowing

� facts: experiencing the pole-vaulter’s jump (and measuring it)

� skills: social skills and crafts (and the rules of practice/behaviour)

� intuition: of the leader and of the creative problem solver (and the explanation – always with hindsight)

knowledge

skill

Practice(subsidiary)

Action(focal)

intuition

Explanation(subsidiary)

Hunch(focal)

facts

Measurement(subsidiary)

Event(focal)

that it that how that whatwhy

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competences

� actionable knowledge

� heavily rooted in experience

� requires high level of expertise

� integrates various knowledge types

� dynamic relationship between

� knowledge

� knower

� context

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problem-based learning

� actually we do method-based learning

� teach a method detached from context

� expect the business students to apply the learned methods

� in a textually formulated artificial context

� single right controllable solutions

� the starting point should be the problem in the innovative organization

� embedded in the real context of decision maker and practitioner

� tackling it as appears required (transdiciplinary, ad hoc)

� solutions cannot be checked, often new knowledge

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new frontiers

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complementarity

corporate universityre-develop conceptsput them into applied contextfor validation through praxis

darkness

competence

universitydevelop conceptsput them into intellectual contextfor validation through thinking

knowledge increase = concepts× contexts

business school graduateswith the relevant web of concepts

professional business practitionerswith the relevant experience

we need both Universities and Corporate Universities

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different knowledges