KAIZEN: (ky’zen)A Japaneses expression suggesting the relentless quest for a better way
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KNOWLEDGE MANAGMENT the methods organisations use to enable and enhance the generation and diffusuin of new learnings, how to transform their capabilities in order to produce the outcomes they truly care about. Organisations manage knowledge by implementing and supporting methods to create tacit knowledge, share tacit knowledge by making it explicit, shar and store explicit knowledge so that it can be made tacit again and used more effectiveley
KNOWLEDGE TRANSLATION is the exchange synthesis and ethically sound application of knowledge-within a complex system of interactions among researchers and users- to accelerate the capture of the benefits of research…through improved health, more effective services and products and a strengthened health care system
KNOWLEDGE: the ability to recall facts, information combined with experience, context , interpretation and reflection. Tacit knowledge is personal know-how (ie knowing your way home), explicit knowledge can be expressed with symbols or physical objects like manuals, formulas or instructions (ie the map and instructions that direct you to someone elses home)
KOLB MODEL This model of learning style is based on Kolb's description of four approaches to learning concrete experience (experiential learning), abstract conceptualisation (development of analytic strategies and theories), active experimentation (learning through action and risk taking), and reflective observation (viewing problems from multiple perspectives before deciding how to proceed).These four approaches combine to produce four types of learner: "convergers" (emphasise the deductive method), "divergers" (use creative problem solving and view a problem from many perspectives before acting), "assimilators" (prefer an inductive approach), and "accommodators" (prefer hands-on experience as a way of learning).