Other Resources
Articles and materialS prepared by Richard Vines
1. Inhouse printing sector
An analysis of the effectiveness and value of having a centralised print / copy facility within an organisation.
Sponsored by Canon Australia for the National Network of In-house Print Professionals Australasia (NIPPA).
( see www.nippa.com.au/whitepaper.pdf )
Description: This Whitepaper was the first ever independent analysis undertaken of the Australian in-house printing sector. It is suggested that the in-house print sector is at the epi-centre of changes impacting Australia’s entire print and publishing industries. The paper explains the notion of the difference between effective and valuable in-house print operations.
From In-house Printing to Document Workflow:
A Guide for the better servicing of readers, users and knowledge workers in an era of digital media convergence.
Sponsored by Canon Australia and released at the University of Southern Queensland in June 2006.
( see: www.nippa.com.au/pdf/RichardVinesJune06.pdf )
Description: This second Whitepaper was commissioned as a follow on to the first Whitepaper. It was designed to enable NIPPA members explore for themselves what might be required to transition from an effective to a valuable in-house print operation.
2. Commercial quick-print sector
Vines, R. 2006 Strategic Directions for the Quick Print Sector: A Discussion Paper. For Canon Australia.
( see: canon.com.au/paga )
Description: This discussion paper was commissioned to address a lack of local research on the Australian quick print sector (which is distinct from general commercial or in-plant printing). The document has encourage open discussion about the current directions and future of the industry. Strategy options first conceived as part of Australia’s Printing Industries Action Agenda (Print 21) are discussed in detail.
3. The Australian Book Production Industry
Printing Industries Association of Australia.
Business Insights: Key Learnings Arising from EPICS Projects, 2000-2004. June 2004. ( see: Business Insights – Key Learnings from EPICS Projects 2000-2004 )
Description: This booklet provides an overview of the key learnings derived from a four Commonwealth Government program designed to assist the international competitiveness of the Australian book production industry.
4. Knowledge management
Exploring the Foundations of Knowledge Management Practice (2002). With Luke Naismith
For those interested, please contract Richard Vines directly.
Description: This paper was prepared to identify how the print and publishing function is best understood as a component of an enterprise approach to knowledge management. Relationships between KM and other disciplines are mapped . This work is currently being followed up by a lengthy paper on the topic of Leveraging Enterprise Value in an Era of the Boundaryless Career (in press).
5. Organisational Knowledge
Nature and Dynamics of Knowledge in Living Organisations (with Bill Hall and Luke Naismith) In Press
Abstract:
Prevailing views about what constitutes organisational knowledge needs to be systematically evaluated at deep epistemological levels. We believe there is a need is to establish a new paradigm comprising of both a theoretical and an ontological foundation for thinking about knowledge epistemologies. We believe, along with Bill McKelvey, Professor Strategic Organizing, The Anderson School at UCLA that the “science of management” as it relates to organisations seems to be greatly wanting.
Our approach is based on an evolutionary theory of knowledge contained within Karl Popper’s later epistemological works beginning with his 1972 “Objective Knowledge – an evolutionary approach”, Popper’s three ontological domains or “worlds”, and a framework of organizational theory based on Maturana and Varela's concept of self-producing complex systems ("autopoiesis"). We have drawn upon this combined approach in order to understand how best to integrate understandings of personal and objective knowledge – and the notion of “living organisations” – into a new paradigm of organisational knowledge.
A model based in this paradigm to leverage the value of knowledge work is outlined. We highlight that all explicit knowledge held in organisations embodied in analogue or digital objects is in fact inert. Such knowledge cannot be regarded as living knowledge unless the filter of personal knowledge is applied to generate meaning from these knowledge objects or, increasingly, unless the understanding is built into dynamic processes and systems within the organisation. As such, we claim that the human aspects of managing knowledge are of fundamental and primary importance, especially to those responsible for the development of information technology support systems and the use of humanly usable digital content. We contend this has crucial implications when knowledge transactions (such as data and information) are being made across different paradigmatic boundaries – for example involving transforming data presented in one XML schema into another. Where dynamic processes and systems cannot appropriately resolve semantic distinctions, the implication is that the architecture that supports semantic transformation of data and information must enable people themselves to mediate the paradigmatic differences embedded within all types of knowledge objects, including data and information.
For further resources prepared by Dr Bill Hall
( see: www.tinyurl.com/37qvej )