The lights are part of one signal.
Data · Information · Knowledge · Insight
Understanding Knowledge
Data can be recorded. Information organizes data with meaning and context. Knowledge develops when a person combines information with experience, values, intuition, and prior understanding. Insight is the recognition or decision that follows.
Interactive model
How does information become knowledge?
Move through the original driving example from raw observations to a context-aware decision.
Current layerData
Red light
Green light
Yellow light
Yellow lines
White lines
Blacktop
Gas pedal
Brake pedal
Steering wheel
Traffic light fixture
01 / Data
Raw objects are not meaning yet.
Lights, lines, pedals, and pavement are accurate observations—but they do not yet explain how to drive.
Knowledge is not simply more information. A person develops it by interpreting information through experience and context.
If knowledge is developed in people, what becomes explicit, and how does KM work across that boundary?