Discussion on Position Papers The following notes were taken of the discussion of the presented position papers. Alan Preece A broad "holistic" view  or process is required for KM. There is more emphasis on catagorising knowledge (K) through ontologies to long lasting K repositories with explicit processes to maintain and update K. Garry Lambley KM involves people, organisations, processes and technology. Garry highlighted that process modelling needs associated K modelling to identify critical K required to carry out the processes. Trust is required to change culture. Graeme West For KM you must know: what K exists where the K is how new K can be integrated and you must capture the rational behind the use of K. A discussion was had about if we need to define K per se of focus on K as an asset required/used by an organisation. Benjamin Adesola For KM we must make explicit K related processes. K does not exist in isolation, but in a context. This context scopes what K is required. A discussion asked how we can put a value on K? If we can assign value to K then we can use the value to determine the worth of  capturing it. John Kingston John showed through a simple example that very often the K required to understand a problem and its solution is often of a high order and is not (perhaps contrary to many people's perceptions) hard to elicit. However, sometimes very precisely contextualised K is required to solve specific problems. This K can be hard to elicit since it may not seem relevant even to the initial problem solver. © 2000 SGES Last updated January 3rd 2000