Which comes first, learning or knowledge? Steven Wieneke, Wieneke & Wieneke, Inc. 2010

Which comes first, learning or knowledge? …Unlike the chicken-egg circular cause and effect, learning ensures knowledge, but knowledge does not necessarily ensure learning. There must be a learning aptitude and mechanism for existing knowledge to be adopted or internalized by any of us. If the knowledge does not exist, the same learning aptitude can discover new knowledge through experimentation and even accidental incidents… [The first question suggests another question.] …Does managing learning in an enterprise come before managing knowledge? …If learning is beneficial for us, then learning should be beneficial for an enterprise. Like people, an enterprise needs a learning aptitude (culture) and learning mechanism (visible learning process). Even if employees are individually learning, the enterprise may not, resulting in rework, remediation, rediscovery, reinvention and customer dissatisfaction…

GM Product Engineering Case Study, Steven Wieneke, Executive Knowledge Management Ph.D. candidates, Wayne State Univestiy, Detroit, Michigan, May 7, 2010.

Understanding our Hidden Diversity, Steven Wieneke, SIKMLeaders Forum, July 20, 2009. 

DFSS Post Project Seminar (Intersection of Design for Six Sigma and Knowledge Management), Steven Wieneke, Wieneke & Wieneke, Inc. & Emergent Systems, Management Education Center, Troy, Michigan, March 25, 2009.

GM Product Engineering Case Study, Steven Wieneke, E2ks User Forum, Management Education Center, Troy, Michigan, December 8, 2008.

Enterprise Learning and Knowledge Awareness, Steven Wieneke, E2ks User Forum, Management Education Center, Troy, Michigan, December 8, 2008.

Replacing a Lessons Learned Database with a Visible Learning Process, Steven Wieneke, SIKMLeader Forum, July 2008.

Replacing a Lessons Learned Database with a Visible Learning Process, Steven Wieneke, National Contract Management Association World Congress 2008, Cincinnati, Ohio, April 13-16, 2008.

GM Case Study Preview & KM Domain, Steven Wieneke and Karla Phlypo-Price, SIKMLeader Forum, May 2007. 

Leveraging a Hidden Diversity to Maximize Team Innovation, Steven Wieneke, Product Development and Management Association (PDMA), New Product Development (NPD), Keystone, Colorado, July 17-19, 2006

The Essence of KM is MK (Metaknowledge), Steven Wieneke, an invited symposium sponsored by The Monieson Centre, Queen’s School of Business, June 9-11, 2006.

Designing a Global Unified Framework for KM, Stankosky, Michael, Weidner, Douglas and Wieneke, Steven, eGov Conference, Washington D.C., April 12, 2004

A Continuing Journey to Define a Knowledge Management Framework - while traveling on the Road to Redemption, Wieneke, Steven and Phlypo, Karla,  The Innovative Enterprise World Summit, Boston, MA, October 20-21, 2003.

A Workshop on The Knowledge Management Domain, Wieneke, Steven and Phlypo, Karla,The George Washington University, Washington D.C. October 28 & 29, 2003