Bruce Neubauer of the University of South Florida has posted an open question on YouTube about knowledge management and modeling knowledge transfer.

This is an interesting idea. Modeling knowledge transfer like you would monitor the movement of products across a shop floor (there is a relationship here, I think, to whether this is actually information or knowledge we are talking about).

Also, if we’re talking about the transfer of ideas, this seems to be very related to memetics (Hokky Situngkir argued that culture itself is a complex adaptive system — knowledge being one of the assets we acquire to make us competitive in the evolutionary arena).

I hate to answer a question with a question, but would there be any way to map this memetic/knowledge transfer problem to more of a ‘knowledge ecosystem’ type approach?

While the shop floor analogy is a good one, I think knowledge transfer might be better suited to being modeled on an ecosystem, where a need for knowledge acts as a driver, and knowlege acts as an abundant but localized resource (like water perhaps?).