This commentary argues that to fully appreciate the complexities of knowledge transfer one firstly has to distinguish between the notions of “data, information, knowledge and wisdom,” and that the latter two are highly context sensitive. In particular one has to understand knowledge as being personal rather than objective, and hence there is no form of knowledge that a-priori is more authoritat...

The re-organisation of a national system of education is a complex process and one which involves the consideration of a number of problems. In the solution of these, other problems, hitherto hidden or only suspected, are often brought to light and demand consideration. The re-organisation which has been undergone by the English Education System began in the experiments of a number of pioneers ...

introduction educational development centers (edcs) in the health sector act as a resource and a catalyst for educational change and therefore have a significant role to play in the professional development of health personnel. the world health organisation has actively supported the establishments of edcs by its member states because of the valuable contribution they can make to improving medi...

This paper describes an attempt to re-engineer a large public sector organisation in Brazil. The organisation, a civil engineering company, had a major role in a large government construction project of high political relevance, by the time the re-engineering attempt was started. As a result of the re-engineering attempt, the organisation had its IT infrastructure significantly improved. The ac...