Just found this news on the CNN website: Peter Drucker has died this morning.
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Peter F. Drucker, revered as the father of modern management for his numerous books and articles stressing innovation, entrepreneurship and strategies for dealing with a changing world, died Friday, a spokesman for Claremont Graduate University said. He was 95.
From: CNN
I recalled some of the relationships between Drucker's interpretation of information and knowledge, which Peter put down in his 1988 paper "The Coming of the New Organization" (HBR, $6 in PDF), which was further described in relationship to communities of practice and semantic learning by Cancore.
It is significant that Drucker mentions specialization or expertise as being constitutive of knowledge: For it is specialization or expertise that locate the individual knower in a particular context, and often, in specific and concrete practices and communities. One could extend this argument even further by saying that the conversion of data to information or knowledge that happens in the interpretive process of metadata creation implies a number of commonplace social and human realities: It entails personal involvement in and commitment to specific practices, and participation in a community of those with similar or complimentary understandings.
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