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An experiment in structuring 500 books with the KJ method 2015-05-09
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First, 100 books
100 additional sheets Usually, about 100 sheets is the cognitive limit. I am wondering if it was the right thing to do to make the addition. I donât know if I should repeat the grouping in the first 100 pieces.
Information is flooding in due to cognitive limitations Eleven (11) groups of contributor science. Lower left: Individual language Lower right: Language on language
14 sheets by the Mathematical Sciences Group.
Bottom right: Machine learning Bottom left: Data analysis and mining Middle right: Probabilistic models
The philosophy group (works of famous philosophers, philosophersâ works, philosophical commentaries, autobiographies), the intellectual creation group, and the what is learning group are the next big groups, but they are so interrelated that I think it would be better to tear them into separate papers.
I thought it was paramount to structure these three, even if it meant putting the other ones on hold.
First, we should collect all the stickies that fall under âPhilosophy,â âIntellectual Creation,â âWhat is Learning,â and âPsychologyâ from the remaining 400 stickies. It is said that top-down classification is not good, but if the overall volume is too large to bottom-up the whole, we should first divide it by what seems relevant and what does not, and then bring it inside the cognitive limit.
Youâre blurring the boundaries of the âknowledge management,â âknowledge creation and organization,â and âcollective knowledgeâ groups a bit.
Chaos is in progress. Itâs the fault of adding cards when they are beyond the cognitive limit. We should quickly eliminate those that have nothing to do with the current issue.
This is a book that bridges âgroupwareâ and âdesign studiesâ Tools to Make People Smarter: The Psychology of Soft Technology.
The âphilosophyâ group is too big.
The âKnowledge Creationâ is the center of the project, with a base in the direction of organizational theory, a base in the direction of psychology, and a base in the direction of philosophy. Philosophy is too broad and should only be picked up if it is relevant to knowledge creation.
Okay, now that weâve opened up the middle, letâs deploy knowledge creation here.
Knowledge Creation Group, 28 sheets I donât see any books that I should have and definitely should be classified here. I thought I was a bunch of sticky notes short, but I guess I forgot them at work. Oh well. Itâs the compression of data volume by random sampling.
Ikujiro Nonaka] âKnowledge Creation Methodologyâ in the middle, âknowledge creation companyâ and âknowledge enablingâ above, these are by the same author. The five butterfly-shaped pages directly above the center are a series of books on the themes of Organizational Learning, Learning from the Future, and Emergence of the Future by Peter Senge and Otto Schirmer (and Nakatoiâs commentary). and Nakadoiâs commentary) by Peter Senge and [Otto Schirmer.
To the right of it is knowledge management. Ikujiro Nonakaâs knowledge enabler is Masakari, who says that knowledge cannot be managed in the first place. Next to it is an IDEO case study, which happens to be on the side. Below that is here in relation to the book when Osborne advocated brainstorming. Beside them are Art of Community and Disengagement, Statement, and Loyalty. After all, for brainstorming to work in an organization, it is important to have âelicit statementsâ. The book talks about what it takes for a statement to be generated. From here, connect to the âQuestioning Techniquesâ group as an adjacent area.
The top left six are organizational patterns, Apprenticeship Patterns, and other pattern language related. The six sheets on the bottom left of that are related to the collective knowledge. Below that is the analysis. The bottom is not very structured: clusters of TOC and TRIZ, Yotaro Hatamura, KJ and NM methods, and organizing methods. On the lower right is a cesspool that did not fit into any of those categories.
Compression. What is Learning?â connected on top of âLearning from the Future.â Connect âHow to Ask Questionsâ via âNeed to Elicit Statementsâ to the right of âBrainstorm.â Under the brainstorming, we connected the âKJ methodâ as a methodology for how to structure the large amount of information gathered by those methods. This is also a sort of âorganizing methodâ so place that to the right. The NM method was placed under the KJ method, which is also a companion to TRIZ in the sense of âknowledge creation from conflict,â so it was put together. Also, even though there is no group yet, the NM method is a method of knowledge creation by focusing on analogy/metaphor, so âmetaphorâ is connected right from here.
Letâs clear the area and develop âWhat is Learning?â, âHow to Ask Questionsâ, and âMetaphorsâ. How to ask questions and metaphors would make clean language related books a bridge.
The messy upper right corner doesnât seem to grasp the differences well enough to be structured. Well, I can do a light re-reading, but it makes sense to write that the map is not yet known.
Gochattered zones, at least separated by counseling and marketing interviews and interviews for the purpose of writing an interview article
The âmarketing interviewâ is directly connected to âmarketing.â The Power of Questions to Motivate Connects to Carnegieâs âMotivating People.â Would âThe Art of Asking Questionsâ connect to Otto Shermer or something via organizational theory since the author is a professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management? The remaining three interviews were with high performers. Todayâs Summary
Consideration
. With the normal KJ method, the cognitive limit comes when the number of sheets exceeds 100. In this case, we are doing it with 500 sheets.
With the KJ method so far, âIâ am in a place where I list âa desk lined with sticky notesâ and I donât move from there. In Clean Space, the âIâ fixes the issue and moves. From this point of view, it is OK for there to be another âIâ than the âIâ in the space where I am listing; the map of the KJ method can be literally interpreted as a âmap,â and the other âIâ is exploring that map.
- Related Clean Space Experience.
Starting from a certain point (in this case, Ikujiro Nonakaâs âMethodology of Knowledge Creationâ), we explore the map by walking along paths that look good. When I was looking at the map from above, I couldnât see the details, but when I walked around, I could tell that âthis door leads to that world. You can choose which way to go, just like mapping in RPGs.
From the viewpoint of mathematical science, it is correct that ârelationships cannot generally be embedded in a plane. From the perspective of cognitive science, however, it is also true that ârelationships that are too complex cannot be recognized anyway.
The metaphor that âa KJ map is a map and you are walking through itâ naturally leads to Mind Palace.
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