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No doubt information and communication technologies, as a major media, can create emotions, through messages, chatting, music and video, ... But can computer software detect and understand your emotions, and answer to them. Are we, after all those years, close enough from "artificial intelligence" ? A lot of new experiments these days on that, from neural networks to telephones.... All the chatterbots are trying too the same kind of things from basic Cybelle to sophisticated ...
Good News: Knowledge Management still alive. In spite of vendors appropriation of KM logo ( just type "Knowledge Management" on Google and you will find 90% of the connected sites are selling something, products, tools, consulting, ....), fundamentals of KM are surviving. Recent contributions: - Relation of KM with semantic web and web2 (with this permanent problem of the balance between "coding the world" and creativity freedom!). See too that nice reaction on this ...
Must management concept be seriously treated? Real world modelization is useful. It is good to reflect real thoughts by concepts and frameworks. But where is the limit between ready to use, "gadget" concepts and real thinking? Just look at this site . Not so bad, but .... Let's take, as a basic example, the famous overused BCG growth/share matrix . We can go further on that on wikipedia , with a bit more in-depth approach. Look at this one * ( I really like this second ...