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2 Case-Control Studies Sukon Kanchanaraksa, PhD Johns Hopkins University
3 Section A Distinctions of a Case Control Study
4 One of the Primary Goals of Epidemiological Investigation Exposure Disease 4
5 Designing a Case-Control Study Exposed Not exposed Exposed Not exposed Disease No Disease Cases Controls 5
6 Case-Control Study First, select Cases (with disease) Controls (without disease) Totals a + c b + d 6
7 Case-Control Study First, select Then, measure past exposure Were exposed Were not exposed Cases (with disease) a c Controls (without disease) b d Totals a + c b + d 7
8 Case-Control Study First, select Then, measure past exposure Were exposed Were not exposed Cases (with disease) a c Controls (without disease) b d Totals a + c b + d Proportion exposed a a+c b b+d 8
9 Case-Control Study: Example of CHD and Smoking Cases CHD Controls (without disease) Total
10 Case-Control Study: Example Cases CHD Controls (without disease) Smoked cigarettes Did not smoke cigarettes Total % Smoking cigarettes = 56% = 44% 10
11 Case-Control Study: Example Smoked cigarettes Did not smoke cigarettes Cases CHD Controls A Controls B Total controls per case 4 controls per case 11
12 Designing a Case-Control Study Exposed Not exposed Exposed Not exposed Disease No Disease Cases Controls 12
13 Designing a Cohort Study Identify: Exposed Not exposed follow: Develop disease Do not develop disease Develop disease Do not develop disease 13
14 Example: Case-Control Study of Uranium Miners and Lung Cancer in Navajo Men Lung Cancer Yes No Uranium Mining Yes 23 0 No % Exposed to Uranium = 72% 0 64 = 0% 14
15 Example: Case-Control Study of Lung Cancer and Tobacco Smoking Lung Cancer Case Control Tobacco Smoking Yes No % Exposed to Tobacco = 99% = 85% Source: Wynder and Graham. (1950). JAMA, 143:
16 Case-Control Study: Example Distribution of 1465 Lung Cancer Patients and a Control Group According to Average Number of Cigarettes Smoked Daily Over the 10 Years Preceding Onset of the Present Illness Daily Average Cigarette Lung Cancer Patients Males Control Group Lung Cancer Patients Females Control Group Total Source: Doll and Hill (1952). Br Med J, 2:
17 When Is a Case-Control Study Warranted? A case-control study is usually conducted before a cohort or an experimental study to identify the possible etiology of the disease It costs relatively less and can be conducted in a shorter time For a given disease, a case-control study can investigate multiple exposures (when the real exposure is not known) A case-control study is preferred when the disease is rare because investigators can intentionally search for the cases A cohort study of rare disease would need to start with a large number of exposed people to get adequate number of cases 17
18 Issues in Selection of Cases Cases should be homogeneous Criteria or definition of cases must be well formulated and documented If diagnostic tests are used to identify cases: High-sensitivity tests (same as broad criteria or definition) will yield a higher number of false positives Low-sensitivity tests (same as restrictive criteria or case definition), and thus high specificity, will result in a lower number of false positives A mild form of disease may also include higher false positives than a severe form of disease 18
19 Issues in Selection of Cases Incident cases (newly diagnosed) may be harder to come by, but they are closer in time to exposures and, unlike prevalent cases, they are not likely the survivors of the disease If cases are misclassified (include false positives), the findings may be false 19
20 Issues in Selection of Controls Conceptually, controls should come from the same population at risk of disease from which cases develop But practically, controls are often selected to be similar to cases on key factors but without the disease because it is difficult to define the population at risk of disease Different types of controls may be used, and they have different limitations 20
21 Types of Controls Hospital controls Have similar quality of information and are convenient to select, but they may have characteristics or diseases that led to hospitalization Dead controls If cases are dead, information of past exposures will be given by surrogates, such as spouse or children Dead controls share the same limitation Best friend or neighbor controls May share similar characteristics (too similar?) Population controls Random digit dialing (RDD) is often used 21
22 Selection of Cases and Controls in Macmahon's Case- Control Study of Pancreatic Cancer Cases Patients with histological diagnoses of pancreatic cancer in 11 Boston and Rhode Island hospitals from October, 1974, to August,1979 Controls All other patients who were under the care of the same physician in the same hospital at the time of the interview of a patient with pancreatic cancer 22
23 Estimated Relative Risk of Pancreatic Cancer by Gender and Coffee Drinking Habits Coffee Drinking (Cups/Day) >5 Men Women Both sexes
24 Estimated Relative Risk of Pancreatic Cancer by Cigarettes and Coffee Drinking Coffee Drinking (Cups/Day) Cigarette Smoking >3 Total Never Ex-Smokers Current Smokers Total
25 Selection of Controls in MacMahon's Case-Control Study of Pancreatic Cancer Included All other patients who were under the care of the same physician in the same hospital at the time of the interview of a patient with pancreatic cancer Excluded Patients with pancreatic or hepatobiliary tract diseases known to be associated with smoking or alcohol consumption Patients with cardiovascular disease, diabetes, respiratory or bladder cancer, and peptic ulcer Non-whites; older than 79 years 25
26 Interpreting the Results of a Case-Control Study of Coffee and Pancreatic Cancer Expected level of coffee consumption Percent drinking coffee Difference in exposure 0 Cases Controls Expected level of coffee consumption 26
27 Section B Other Issues Involved with Case Control Studies
28 Matching Matching is the process of selecting controls in a case-control study so that the controls are similar to the cases with regard to certain key characteristics such as age, sex, and race Matching can be performed at an individual or group level Individual matching (matched pairs) Group matching (frequency matching) 28
29 Group Matching: Example In a study of breast cancer and reproductive risk factors from the New Mexico Women s Health Study: Controls were ascertained using random digit dialing with frequency matching on ethnicity, the three age groups (30 39, 40 64, and 65 74), and the seven health planning districts. Gilliland FD, et al. (1998). Reproduction risk factors for breast cancer in hispanic and non-hispanic white women. The New Mexico Women s Health Study. Am J Epidemiol, 148:
30 Problems with Matching Matching on many variables may make it difficult to find an appropriate control We cannot explore the possible association of the disease with any variable on which the cases and controls have been matched 30
31 Recall of Information in a Case-Control Study Information on some past exposures depends on memory of events from both cases and controls Often inadequate or limited Recall bias occurs when the recall is better among cases than controls because of the presence of the disease Consequently, a false association may be found between exposure and disease 31
32 An Artificial Association Resulting from Recall Bias True incidence of infection Percent of infections recalled A Study of Maternal Infections During Pregnancy and Congenital Malformations Infection rate as ascertained by interview Cases (Congenital Malformations) Controls (No Malformations) 15% 15% 90% 10% 13.5% 1.5% 32
33 Multiple Control Groups Because of the several limitations in the selection of controls, the use of multiple control groups may address some of the concerns Use both living controls and dead controls The use of surrogates to provide data Hospital controls and community controls Hospital controls may have some conditions that lead to frequent hospital visits Non-disease controls and cancer controls Recall of past exposure differs with outcome If findings are in agreement between groups, then they are likely to be valid 33
34 Multiple Control Groups: Example In a case-control study of measles and subacute sclerosing panecephalitis (SSPE), two control groups were used Playmates of the patients Hospitalized patients in the same hospital Both matched on age, gender, and race to cases NA Halsey, JF Modlin, JT Jabbour, L Dubey, DL Eddins, and DD Ludwig (1980). Risk factors in subacute sclerosing panencephalitis: a case-control study. Am. J. Epidemiol, 111:
35 Nested Case-Control Study A nested case-control study is conducted within a defined cohort in which exposure data and population characteristics are available to some extent, often from the time of enrollment into the cohort 35
36 Nested Case-Control Study: Advantages Both cases and controls are from a known, defined population at risk of disease Exposure data are collected prior to the diagnosis of the disease Information collected has not been influenced by the knowledge of disease status (no interviewer/information bias) Is less costly than a cohort study because fewer subjects and fewer tests and/or specimens are required 36
37 Nested Case-Control Study: Example In a study to determine whether the helicobacter pylori infection was associated with the development of gastric cancer, 189 patients with gastric cancer and 189 cancer-free individuals were identified from 130,000 people from a HMO cohort followed since the 1960s Helicobacter pylori infection status was determined using stored serum collected during the 1960s The proportions of infection were 84% among the gastric cancer cases and 61% among the controls Parsonnet et al. (October 17, 1991). N Engl J Med, 325(16):
38 Review Differentiate between a retrospective cohort study and a case-control study Define Matching Controls Nested case-control study 38
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1 Reviews of Economic Development Literature and Practice: No. 7 Knowledge Management As an Economic Development Strategy Kenan Patrick Jarboe Athena Alliance 2001 U.S. Economic Development Administration
2 KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT AS AN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY Kenan Patrick Jarboe Athena Alliance th Street, SE Washington, DC (202) April 2001 This report was prepared under award number from the Economic Development Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce. The statements, conclusions, and recommendations are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Economic Development Administration.
3 CONTENTS CONTENTS...i ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS... ii EXECUTIVE SUMMARY...iii BACKGROUND... 1 TACIT AND FORMAL KNOWLEDGE... 2 KNOWLEDGE AND INFORMATION IN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT... 4 CHANGING FACTORS IN LOCATION DECISIONS... 4 The IT infrastructure... 4 A skilled workforce... 5 Quality of life... 6 PRODUCTION AND PLACE... 6 CAPTURING LOCAL KNOWLEDGE... 7 KNOWLEDGE AND ECONOMIC CLUSTERS... 8 WHAT IS KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT? KM TOOLS AND TECHNIQUES FOR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES. 13 USING COMPUTERS AND THE INTERNET External communications and marketing Internal communications and capturing tacit knowledge TECHNIQUES FOR UNCOVERING AND DEVELOPING LOCAL INTELLECTUAL ASSETS Creation of an information product Identifying entrepreneurial opportunities Developing local clusters TECHNIQUES FOR IMPROVED ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES External knowledge sharing Internal knowledge capturing CONCLUSION ENDNOTES BIBLIOGRAPHY ADDITIONAL RESOURCES i
4 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The author would like to thank Richard Cohon and Joan Wills of Athena Alliance for their comments on an earlier draft of this paper, and to especially thank Kelly Robinson of the Research and National Technical Assistance Division of the Economic Development Administration for both his insightful comments and suggestions and his administrative support throughout the project. Any errors or omissions are solely the responsibility of the author. ii
5 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The United States is shifting to an information economy. Productive capability is no longer completely dependent on capital and equipment; information and knowledge assets are increasingly important. The result is a new challenge to the practice of local economic development. In this information economy, success comes from harnessing the information and knowledge assets of a community and from helping local businesses succeed in the new environment. Knowledge Management (KM) can provide the tools to help economic development practitioners accomplish that task. KM is a set of techniques and tools to uncover and utilize information and knowledge assets especially tacit knowledge. Economic development organizations can use KM tools to enhance external communications of local companies including marketing and to promote internal communications within local businesses and help companies capture tacit knowledge. More importantly, they can use those tools to uncover and develop local intellectual assets, including helping develop information products, and helping identify entrepreneurial and business opportunities. KM tools are also useful in developing local economic clusters. Finally, these tools can be used to enhance external knowledge sharing among the economic development community and to capture and share tacit knowledge within an economic development organization. iii
6 BACKGROUND The United States is becoming, if it is not already, an information economy. Advances in information technology (IT), i.e. computer and telecommunications technology, are helping to revolutionize the U.S. economy. The result of this revolution is far more profound than simply the electronic delivery of goods and services, as important as that may be for both business and government. The shift to an information economy is changing how we work and do business in ways that were inconceivable a few decades ago. Part of the story is the rise of the IT-creating industries. According to one estimate, the computer and telecommunications industries contributed between 21 and 31 percent of U.S. GDP growth in each of the years 1995 to High-tech areas such as Silicon Valley have become wellstudied examples of technology-driven economic development. This information revolution goes beyond the creation of computer and telecommunications equipment. The creation of knowledge and information is just as important as the creation of the hardware. In the information age, the output of workers is more likely to be an intangible such as software, ideas, services, music, literature, etc. rather than a physical good. As economic activity is digitized, advanced economies are becoming weightless. 2 The information age is also having a profound impact on those industries that utilize technology and information. Both manufacturing and services have been transformed by the IT revolution. The importance of information as an input to the production process both to better meet customer demand and to continuously improve the product and the process is one aspect of the impact. The speed with which knowledge is created and exchanged is another. In this digital marketplace, instantaneous information must be processed as quickly as possible. Otherwise advantage can be ceded to competitors. In the information era, productive capability is no longer completely dependent on capital and equipment. Productive capability is more and more a function of workers skills, knowledge and expertise. Peter Drucker has observed: Increasingly, the human being does not work in mass production, but in what might be called team production. And that means that increasingly the producing human being is a knowledge worker. Workers as they did before the Industrial Revolution, own the means of production. The means is between their ears. 3 As information and knowledge become more important, organizations are re-structuring themselves to better utilize these assets. Empowerment, flattening and decentralization of the organization, and a focus on innovation and continuous improvement are all hallmarks of the modern enterprise. Networked forms of organization are arising that draw in suppliers and customers, as well as workers, as knowledge sources and information processors. This reorganization of work originated in manufacturing and has spread to virtually all forms of work including services and government activities. 1
7 Economic development strategies and practice must adapt to this new economic landscape. Strategies must be developed to provide businesses with the required new information assets. Strategies must also be created to build upon a community s local knowledge assets. Economic development practice must learn to utilize IT and knowledge creation tools. Often referred to as knowledge management (KM), these tools and techniques can help economic development organizations better capture and communicate both internal knowledge hidden within the organization and external information about the community and its knowledge assets. Tacit and formal knowledge To understand how knowledge management works and why it is important for economic development, it is important to understand the importance of tacit knowledge. The information age is not built purely on formal brainpower. In this new age, utilization of information and knowledge counts as much as its production. The ability to quickly utilize the knowledge and information of the entire workforce, not only the information elite, is critical. Knowledge and information are not the same thing. The standard hierarchy goes from data to information to knowledge to wisdom. According to Davenport, DeLong and Beers: Knowledge is information combined with experience, context, interpretation, and reflection. It is a high-value form of information that is ready to apply to decisions and actions. 4 Making decisions and solving problems involves much more than systematic and rational analysis. 5 It involves making the gut choice or just doing what had to be done. It is a process of assessing a situation and acting. That part of our knowledge base is intuitive and experiential: The skilled carpenter knows just how a given variety of wood must be handled, or what type of joint will best serve his purpose at a particular edge. To say that he knows these things is not to claim that he could put his knowledge into words... The practitioner s knowledge of the medium is tacit. It is essential to the skilled practice: the carpenter uses what he knows with every stroke of his tools. 6 The ability to develop and then utilize this tacit knowledge is what distinguishes an expert be it a line worker in a paper mill, a brain surgeon or a computer software developer. This is not to downplay the importance of formal knowledge. Formal knowledge consists of the codified body of knowledge upon which our scientific and technological process is based. Access to this knowledge rests on the ability to read, write, perform arithmetic operations, and reason mathematically what is sometimes referred to as literacy and numeracy. Without these basic skills, it is next to impossible to operate successfully in today s economic environment unlike in the past when brawn was enough in many cases. Indeed, with the proliferation of knowledge and information, reasoning skills become even more important. There is an enormous need to be able to quickly distinguish between what information is relevant and what is irrelevant. 2
8 In the end, both tacit and formal knowledge are needed. They interact. Tacit knowledge complements formal knowledge; it allows an individual to take elements of formal knowledge and use that knowledge in a way that is unique for a particular situation. It also allows individuals to go beyond the current limits of formal knowledge. Creativity, intuition and innovation owe much to the ability to tap into the reservoir of tacit knowledge. Related to tacit knowledge is the concept of social capital. 7 Social capital is the interaction part of tacit knowledge. It is that web of relationships and connections by which tacit knowledge is shared within a community. It is the social structure that facilitates coordination and communications. Not everyone agrees on the detailed dimensions and definitions of what constitutes social capital. 8 The result is a disagreement on the precise role of those elements in economic development. Yet, there is general agreement that organizational and community-based tacit knowledge is an important part of economic activity. Information, social capital and tacit knowledge are also becoming important parts of the economic development process, as we shall see in the next section. 3
9 KNOWLEDGE AND INFORMATION IN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT Just as information and knowledge are changing the nature of our economy, they are also changing the practice of local economic development. Companies are changing how they operate and what drives their location decisions. Local economic development strategies must adapt to these changes. In addition, we are gaining a better understanding of how information and knowledge affects both the economy in general and the economic success of specific localities. As a result, there is a rise in new theories of economic development, such as economic clusters, that can be useful in guiding local economic development activities. Changing factors in location decisions The shift to a knowledge/information-based economy is changing what business needs as inputs to the production process. No longer are business location decisions based simply on the availability of cheap land, cheap energy, a low-cost labor force, availability of raw materials, or access to transportation. The ability of a locality to supply a company s need for information and knowledge assets has become paramount in economic development. There are at least three elements involved in the process: an up-to-date IT infrastructure, availability of skilled workers, and a good quality of life. The IT infrastructure The starting point for economic development in the information age is the existence of a suitable IT infrastructure. Many people see the Internet as a consumption tool as a means of recreation, information gathering and shopping. Economic development practitioners know that the information technology infrastructure is also a production tool. Advanced information technologies can make businesses more productive and efficient as well as expand their markets. To take advantage of those opportunities, companies must have access to high-speed telecommunications connections, known as broadband. 9 Having access to broadband is especially important in attracting technology-creating companies. It is also important for the heavy IT using companies. More and more companies are able either to locate so-called back office operations in distant areas or to outsource those operations entirely to companies located in lower-wage areas. On an individual basis, the location of back office operations in more distant areas leads to a sort of telecommuting. 10 In some areas, especially current commercial and business hubs, broadband has been and is being installed as a matter of course. Other areas, especially rural areas and parts of the inner city, are in danger of being left behind. 11 According to a joint study by National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) and the Agriculture Department s Rural Utility Service (RUS), rural areas are currently lagging far behind urban areas in broadband availability. Deployment in rural towns (populations of fewer than 2,500) is more likely to occur than in remote areas outside of towns. These latter areas present a special challenge for broadband deployment. 12 4
10 There is an ongoing debate over what to do to foster the deployment of the broadband infrastructure. 13 As the NTIA/RUS report states, in general, it is the last mile, not the backbone, that presents the greatest challenge to bringing broadband to all Americans. 14 To use the Federal Communications Commission s metaphor, the problem is not the freeway but the driveway. 15 In addition, the existence of a broadband connection is not enough to ensure an adequate infrastructure. The connection must be affordable and reliable, and the locality must have the technical support services to ensure that the connection is fully utilized. The problem is especially acute in areas that have been by-passed by the existing telecommunications infrastructure, such as Native American tribal lands. 16 It is beyond the scope of this report to discuss specific policies to ensure all areas have access to the advanced telecommunications infrastructure. 17 It is also beyond the scope of this paper to discuss what level or form of access is appropriate for an area s economic development. Suffice it to say access to the infrastructure is a key element for economic development in the new information economy. A skilled workforce The second obvious change in business due to the emergence of the information age is a greater need for a skilled workforce. Access to the physical infrastructure is a necessary, but not sufficient condition for economic development. 18 If worker skills are companies greatest assets, then companies will locate where a skilled workforce is available. In addition, new companies will be more likely to be started in such locations. As one economic development specialist was quoted as saying: Brainpower will be the dominant resource of the 21 st century. Cities that do the best job of attracting and educating talented people will flourish. People are the new products. 19 Training and workforce development issues are now at the top of every economic development agenda national as well as local. The demand for workers with information technology skills remains high. The Information Technology Industries Association estimated in April 2000 that roughly half of the 1.6 million new IT jobs created that year would go unfilled. 20 Obviously, those localities that can supply these workers will be the places where existing companies choose to re-locate and where new IT-related businesses start. Local economic success requires going beyond luring in companies with a technologically skilled workforce. Helping existing companies upgrade the skills of their existing workforce is just as important. States and local governments have long recognized the importance of incumbent worker training. According to the National Governors' Association (NGA), at least forty-seven states have customized training programs to assist firms in upgrading the skills of their workers. 21 Nor is it just a matter of technical training. The ability to utilize knowledge, both tacit and formal, is increasingly important. Companies are changing their operations to take better advantage of their knowledge and information assets. Those changes often labeled as a shift to 5
11 high performance work organizations place greater emphasis on organizational skills such as decision-making, communications and group processes. Training in these skills is increasingly important. The shifts in organizational structure are also changing how labor markets operate. The career paths of the past are no longer open to many, closing off old forms of economic advancement. Conversely, new opportunities are arising. New issues are arising, such as the role of contingent (i.e. temporary and part-time) workers. These changes present special challenges to policy makers and economic development practitioners. 22 Those localities that successfully meet those challenges will be better positioned to succeed in the information economy. Quality of life The third important element in business location decisions is an area s quality of life. Highway congestion, pollution and/or a lack of housing can diminish an area s potential attractiveness. 23 Good schools are important not only to educate the next generation of workers, but also to lure their parents into the area. Quality of life has long been recognized as an important factor in marketing a locality. In the new information age, these factors become even more critical. Joel Kotkin argues that information elites can move to where ever they wish: As information and intelligence have become the prime drivers of the economy, many less-favored places have suffered grievously. An economy largely dictated by the locational preferences of an aristocracy of talent who can live where they want and dictate of [sic] geography of wealth has meant that less desirable places, and the people left behind in them, often gain little, or actually lose ground, even during periods of sustained economic growth. 24 Kotkin may overstate the importance of this mobile information-creating elite. Tacit knowledge and the skills of the entire workforce are now important factors of production not just the knowledge and skills of the information elites. Still, quality of life is just as important for these less mobile workers as for the mobile elite. In areas of poor quality of life, it is more likely that those who can leave will leave. Those who remain will be less motivated and therefore less productive. Production and place Tacit knowledge also plays a more direct role in the location of economic activity. Physical capital the basis of production in an industrial economy has become increasingly mobile. This has given rise to the general perception of a footloose nature of production. For example, Lester Thurow states that: For the first time in human history, anything can be made anywhere and sold everywhere. In capitalistic economics that means making each component and performing each activity at the place on the globe where it can be most cheaply done and selling the resulting products or services wherever prices and profits are highest. 25 At the same time, individuals and information appear to be more mobile than ever. People can fly anywhere in the world and communicate instantaneously. IT allows human resources to be 6
12 utilized and shared across traditional boundaries of time and space. This has led some to argue that the information ( intangibles ) part of the economy will follow manufacturing toward footloose production. 26 However, human and social capital is far less mobile that physical capital. Tacit knowledge and worker skills are generally location specific. While a worker may move and take their skills with them, many skills based on tacit knowledge can not easily be separated from the specific production process and from specific location where that production takes place. Even formal knowledge is in a sense both mobile and immobile at the same time. Codified knowledge is easily shared, especially given advanced IT. But, it does not leave in the sense that it is no longer available at the original location. The shared knowledge remains part of the local economic base. Nor does IT preclude or substitute for face-to-face interactions, both planned and serendipitous. Face-to-face contacts remain the most information intensive means of communications an important factor in an information-rich economy. As one commentator put it: Paradoxically, location matters more than ever in high-tech. To be a player in Silicon Valley, you have to be in peoples faces. 27 This applies to the information-utilizing industries, as well as the high-tech, knowledge-creating sectors. Tacit knowledge is needed to customize products and adapt to rapidly changing situations that are the hallmark of the information age. In the service industries, the communications revolution is not about moving to other locations in a mimic of footloose industrial production. It is about using information from global sources to meet the needs of local customers. For example, a local insurance agent can tap into the company s global knowledge base (formal and informal) to design coverage customized to meet the specialized needs of a local client. Tacit localized knowledge is combined with global resources. The result is a production system that is strongly rooted in its local market and local knowledge-based comparative advantage, while drawing upon resources from, and contributing resources to global networks. Capturing local knowledge Economic development has always been focused on using local assets. In the past, these have been physical, such as natural resources or a location at a prime transportation intersection. As discussed above, information era assets are different. Tacit knowledge and social capital are increasingly important those assets which are simultaneously local and globally based. As locally developed information assets become the keys to economic success, all communities have the opportunity to benefit from capturing and using their local knowledge. One form of local knowledge is often referred to in the international development literature as indigenous knowledge (IK). IK is often thought of by many as non-western knowledge or traditional knowledge (i.e. the knowledge of indigenous peoples) as opposed to the international knowledge system generated by universities, research institutions and private firms. 28 However, the nature of IK is not limited to indigenous peoples, but rather a function of the type of information. 7
13 The World Bank describes IK as having the following characteristics: local, in that it is rooted in a particular community and situated within broader cultural traditions; it is a set of experiences generated by people living in those communities... tacit knowledge and, therefore, not easily codifiable. transmitted orally, or through imitation and demonstration. Codifying it may lead to the loss of some of its properties. experiential rather than theoretical knowledge. Experience and trial and error... learned through repetition, which is a defining characteristic of tradition even when new knowledge is added... constantly changing, being produced as well as reproduced, discovered as well as lost; though it is often perceived by external observers as being somewhat static. 29 Every region, every neighborhood of every city and in every rural area in the United States has its own reservoir of unique tacit knowledge. That local knowledge can be captured and utilized to drive economic development by using a number of tools and techniques that collectively have come to be known as Knowledge Management. Knowledge and economic clusters Capturing tacit knowledge is one important economic development activity. Building social capital and means for sharing that knowledge is another. One economic development strategy that has arisen over the past few years concerns the development of economic clusters. 30 Social capital and information sharing play a crucial role in creating successful economic clusters. Traditional explanations of industrial clusters were based on costs and physical resources. The steel industry clustered in areas where coal and iron ore were plentiful and where they could be brought together at low cost such as Pittsburgh, Gary and Cleveland where water and rail transportation could easily join the iron ore ranges of the Great Lakes with the Appalachian coal mines. The concept of information and knowledge as the key factor of production adds an extra dimension to the understanding of the process of economic clusters. What makes a successful cluster is the implicit sharing of knowledge and skills, especially tacit knowledge. As Michael Porter points out, clusters represent critical masses of skill, information, relationships, and infrastructure in a given field. 31 As discussed earlier, there is no substitute for physically being there when it comes to the transfer of tacit knowledge. Clusters are an efficient means of knowledge management. As recent study on innovative regions puts it: Geographic clustering of people, companies, and institutions is a powerful mechanism for transferring and augmenting personal knowledge quickly. Sharing knowledge, skills, and experience is simply easier when the components of the learning network are in the same place. 32 For example, one key to Silicon Valley s success was the formal and informal mechanisms for sharing information and ideas. In contrast, Boston s Route 128 did not have a similar networking 8
14 model in place. This, according to AnnaLee Saxenian, was the reason why Silicon Valley was able to successfully adapt to successive technological changes, while Route 128 floundered: Silicon Valley has a regional network-based industrial system that promotes collective learning and flexible adjustment among specialist producers of a complex of related technologies. The region s dense social network and open labor markets encourages experimentation and entrepreneurship. 33 This social network included both ad-hoc interactions, such as those at the Wagon Wheel bar in Mountain View, and more organized occasions, such as conferences and hobbyist s clubs such as the Homebrew Computer Club. The result was faster innovation: It provided the advantage of speed, as local firms learned about market changes before others did. And it facilitated the frequent face-to-face communications needed for successful collaboration, while also intensifying competitive rivalries. 34 The growth of the Italian ceramic tile industry after World War II provides another good example. 35 Centered on the town of Sassuolo in the Emilia-Romagna region of northern Italy, the region benefited from close linkages among companies. These relationships simultaneous promoted cooperation and fierce competition among the manufactures. They also facilitated information and skill sharing between the tile manufacturers and the equipment makers. Such information flows resulted in innovations in products and improvements in process and productivity. Just as KM techniques are useful in capturing and sharing local tacit knowledge, they are also useful in building the social capital and information sharing mechanisms needed to create successful economic clusters. But before describing how KM can be used in economic development, we must first provide an overview of what KM is. 9
15 WHAT IS KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT? In today s information economy, companies have come to realize that their major business assets are, as Rosabeth Kanter describes them: concepts (i.e. ideas, designs, etc.); competence (i.e. the ability to execute); and, connections (i.e. close relationships that allow for the augmentation of resources and the leveraging of one s abilities). 36 One major consulting firm defines five different types of assets that companies can use to create value: physical, financial, employee and suppliers, customer, and organizational. 37 Only the first two, physical and financial, include traditional assets. The last three are sources of knowledge and information assets. To succeed in this new environment, companies have sought ways to tap into those knowledge and information assets. The term Knowledge Management has emerged to describe these efforts. KM is a set of techniques, tools and activities focused on helping organizations capture and communicate their resources, tacit and explicit perspectives and capabilities, data, information, knowledge and maybe wisdom. 38 In many cases, KM has taken on the aspect of a bundle of software programs and other information technologies. But the definition is much broader. It encompasses any activities that help uncover and utilize information and knowledge assets especially tacit knowledge. One of KM s leading practitioners, Karl-Eric Sveiby, describes it as being divided into two tracks: IT-Track KM = Management of Information. Researchers and practitioners in this field tend to have their education in computer and/or information science. They are involved in construction of information management systems, AI [artificial intelligence], reengineering, group ware etc. To them Knowledge = Objects that can be identified and handled in information systems. This track is new and is growing very fast at the moment, assisted by new developments in IT. People-Track KM = Management of People. Researchers and practitioners in this field tend to have their education in philosophy, psychology, sociology or business/management. They are primarily involved in assessing, changing and improving human individual skills and/or behavior. To them Knowledge = Processes, a complex set of dynamic skills, know-how etc, that is constantly changing. They are traditionally involved in learning and in managing these competencies individually like psychologists - or on an organizational level - like philosophers, sociologists or organizational theorists. This track is very old, and is not growing so fast
16 The two tracks differ in their techniques and tools. In the IT track, the emphasis is on using software and the Internet. One goal is to capture information in databases. The other goal is to improve communication internally (to share knowledge within the organization) and externally (to determine customer preferences and to better manage to the flow of goods and services to and from suppliers). In the people track, emphasis is on creating an environment that fosters innovation and the highest possible level of skill-utilization the so-called management of human capital. In a review of 39 knowledge management projects, Davenport, et al. identified four broad types of objectives. 40 The first type of objective was the creation of knowledge repositories. These projects generally took the form of database management programs. Three types of databases where identified. The first type focused on external knowledge and utilized tools such as competitive intelligence systems that gathered information from outside sources. The second where mechanisms for better using structured internal knowledge contained in reports and manuals (i.e. document capture) and for the codification of internal tacit knowledge. These structured internal databases often contain information such as customer and product information, description of specific sales presentations and tactics, and other tidbits that would help sales and marketing. The third type were informal means of capturing know-how and lessons learned (i.e. sharing of internal tacit knowledge), usually in the form of discussion group archives using tools like Lotus Notes. The second objective was to improve knowledge access. These projects focused on the access to and the sharing of knowledge. One way was through the use of databases that are directories of external experts (expert networks). Such directories could also characterize internal expertise, such as one example of a software company whose expert network describes over 300 types of knowledge competencies necessary for software development projects. The system is used to match personnel with software development projects. Other techniques involve advanced communications technologies, including desktop videoconferencing and document sharing tools, to facilitate the direct sharing of knowledge and information among co-workers. The third objective was to enhance the knowledge environment. Projects in this category sought to change norms and values to encourage both the creation and sharing of knowledge. In part, these organizational approaches attempt to shift what is valued in the organization. In one example, a large computer company attempted to promote the re-use of component designs a form of sharing knowledge to avoid reinventing-the-wheel every time they developed a new product. To do this, they shifted corporate values to emphasize the importance of quick design ( time-to-market ) and downplayed the importance of the originality of the design. The final objective was the management of knowledge as an asset. These projects involved creating formal audits and metrics of knowledge management at the corporate level. Essentially, they attempt to codify intellectual capital and report them on the company s balance sheet. Such projects are part of the management and accounting professions endeavors to understand and explain intangible assets. One of the most recent activities in this area is the attempt to devise accounting measures that treat skill-development ( training ) as an investment rather than a cost. 11
17 These four objectives are similar to Sveiby s two categories. Creation of knowledge repositories and improving knowledge access center around IT tools and processes, while enhancing the knowledge environment and managing knowledge as an asset tend to focus on the organizational and people issues. The organizational techniques to enhance internal and external communications need not be tied to the use of IT. Davenport, et al. found that the Austin-based semiconductor research consortium Sematech greatly improved the flow of knowledge and information through old fashioned methods: Sematech has a knowledge transfer organization and several formal roles for that purpose; it also holds many sessions of which the primary objective is knowledge transfer. Many take place in Austin or at sponsoring firms' locations, but, most important, the company uses assignees from sponsoring firms in its R&D processes. Any knowledge they gather during their two or so years at Sematech is effectively transferred when they return to their companies. While Sematech also has several technological channels for knowledge transfer in place, managers credit face-to-face transfer as the most effective by far. 41 The categories of IT and organizational change should not be seen as mutually exclusive. Companies set up processes and systems that incorporate multiple techniques that are mutually reinforcing. As Davenport, et al. put it: For example, a company could profit from creating a repository and improving the knowledge management environment to motivate people to contribute to and access the repository. 42 KM is an evolving area. The broad scope of activities that call themselves KM makes a precise definition difficult. Yet, it is the broad nature of KM that makes it such a powerful concept. Angus, Patel and Harty summarized the point succinctly: Knowledge management is a way of doing business. In reality, it's more a business practice than a product. The products are what facilitate the practice of knowledge management or at least specific facets of it with the appropriate use of technology. 43 It is beyond the scope of this paper to provide a detailed review of either the IT tools (data capturing tools and techniques, document scanning and retrieval programs, expert systems, data mining tools, and collaborative work software) or the organizational change and development techniques. The Additional Resources section at the end of this paper provides some guidance for further exploration. 12
18 KM TOOLS AND TECHNIQUES FOR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES The basic concept of the information economy is that information and knowledge are an organization s key assets. Business success stems from harnessing those assets. The same concept can be applied to a locality. Economic success comes from harnessing the information and knowledge assets of a community and from helping local businesses succeed in the information age. KM can provide the tools to accomplish that task. As discussed earlier, the definition of knowledge management used in this review is very broad. We consider any technique that improves the communication, sharing and/or formal capture of information or knowledge to be a KM tool. The tool can be either IT or organizational. These tools can perform a number of tasks: enhance external communications of companies including marketing; promote internal communications within local businesses and help companies capture tacit knowledge; uncover and develop local intellectual assets, including help develop information products, and help identify entrepreneurial and business opportunities; help develop local economic clusters; enhance external knowledge sharing among the economic development community; capture and share tacit knowledge within an economic development organization. Using computers and the Internet Using our broad definition of KM, the simplest tool is the use of IT to improve internal and external communications, including for marketing. Note that in some cases, an even more basic step of improving computer literacy is needed. Assistance with word processing programs, accounting software, inventory management and the myriad of other software applications can be a major step forward for some businesses. Another approach is to use the Internet itself to help companies get basic business information. For example, the West Virginia High Technology Consortium Foundation has created an online database that links small businesses to a myriad of sites. These sites include information and assistance on finance, accounting, general business, economics, marketing, management and legal issues. 44 Helping local businesses use the Internet obviously requires access to the advanced telecommunications infrastructure, as discussed earlier. Beyond question of access to the infrastructure is the capability of the locality to utilize that infrastructure. The Computer Systems Policy Project (CSPP) has created a guide to help communities assess their readiness for electronic commerce. 45 The guide walks a community through a number of self-assessment questions. These include key areas such as infrastructure capabilities, access to critical services, 13
19 community usage by citizens, business and government, and planning issues. More importantly, the guide gives concrete descriptions of what it takes to reach each level of readiness. In this way, the assessment not only tells a community where it stands, it helps show the way to future improvement. 46 External communications and marketing The most basic use of KM in economic development is to help local businesses use advanced information technologies, i.e. the Internet, to expand their markets. Some might argue with the description of sales and marketing via the Internet as a KM tool. It is included in this review because it is a good example of a simple but powerful application of the principles of KM: that information, including information about your product, is your key asset. International development agencies are already using advanced information technologies to connect local artisans and shopkeepers to global markets. 47 Frank Odasz describes the opportunities when he says, the key point is that a basket-maker in a rural community would not be likely to earn a living selling baskets solely to a local market, whereas with an unlimited global niche market available through Internet marketing, a basket-maker might do very, very well! 48 Many areas in the U.S. utilize their local economic development or Chamber of Commerce Web site as a tool to promote their locality and link to local businesses. Other areas give more direct help to companies in the form of Internet marketing assistance. For example, the Pueblo- Durango Internet Partnership has used a WebFair approach to help local small businesses become Internet ready. The WebFair consisted of a series of classes on all aspects of marketing via the Internet. In conjunction with the WebFair, mini-grants of $500 to $1000 were available to help companies move beyond a basic Web site, including advanced marketing activities and better integration of the Internet activities with other business operations. 49 The Home Grown Jobs Initiative in Ely, Nevada has created a joint Web site to help local small business, especially very small, one-person businesses, develop a marketing and sales presence on the Internet. WhitePineCountryStore.Com is a Web portal to the businesses located in White Pine County. The Initiative, a winner of a 2000 AOL Rural Telecommunications Leadership Award, also features on-going support and training. 50 Interestingly, the ultimate Internet marketing tool for some small-business, particularly homebased businesses, may already be available. As Frank Odasz observes: Just a few years ago, small businesses struggled with the problem of how people would find their Web pages. Today, demonstrates one way of resolving this issue for many home-based businesses. Ebay has become a portal for those seeking unusual gifts. Many home-crafts persons, antique dealers, bed and breakfast establishments, and similar businesses are enjoying a robust business from very rural locations due to the broad exposure portals like Ebay provides for their products
20 Internal communications and capturing tacit knowledge Use of the Internet for sales and marketing is the simplest form of KM. The next step is to use IT to enhance organizational communications, especially to share local knowledge. One example is the Great Harvest Bread Company, a network of 137 bakeries in 40 states. Great Harvest runs an Web site called Breadboard to capture and share information and knowledge. This tool is combined with the organizational KM techniques of face-to-face and telephone conversations. For example, one shop instituted a Baker for the Day program to help a local charity raise money, and incidentally, to promote the local bakery. This marketing and public service innovation spread rapidly throughout the network. In addition to the traditional means of organizational communications, Great Harvest has a knowledge capture system called Case Studies to formally document those shared tips, stories and anecdotes that led to better products or processed. 52 Great Harvest s headquarters is located in rural Dillon, Montana. The term headquarters is somewhat of a misnomer. The organization is a network of franchises operating as a learning organization. This combination of new forms of organization and advanced information technology illustrates the types of enterprises that will be increasingly important to local economic development in the future. Using the networked model of organization, local knowledge from many locations can be captured and shared within the network. Economic development becomes a process help local entities tie into the appropriate networks locally, nationally and globally. Techniques for uncovering and developing local intellectual assets The potential for information-based and knowledge-based economic development is much greater than simply the utilization of IT to enhance existing local businesses. Every community has or can develop some knowledge and skills that are useful in the information age. Capturing and utilizing that local knowledge is the next use of KM tools in economic development. One example is the World Bank s Indigenous Knowledge Program. 53 This KM activity is focused on the capturing this indigenous knowledge so that the information can be used to improve development programs. Knowledge of the local situation is critical to the success of a project. For example, knowledge of traditional societies forms of apprenticeships and rites-ofpassage has been used to develop successful apprenticeship programs for at-risk youth in Africa and the Caribbean. 54 These KM tools include both techniques for capturing indigenous knowledge and tools, such as an Internet-based database and other information dissemination techniques, to share this information. Knowledge of the local situation is just as critical to the success of an economic development project in the United States as it is in developing nations. Such explication and sharing of local knowledge and information is a key part of economic development in the US. Local knowledge is not just useful for successful design and implementation of a program. Local knowledge can be the driver of that economic development activity by: capturing and using that knowledge as an information product, in and of itself; and, using local knowledge to identify new entrepreneurial opportunities. 15
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Reminder: Local Acts Must Enter New Times Battle of the Bands by Tuesday
As I have already mentioned, the Broward-Palm Beach wing of New Times will be performing Simon Cowell-esque duties this Saturday at America's Backyard (200 E. Broward Blvd., Fort Lauderdale) during a rigorous Battle of the Bands. Even if some people aren't *head snap* likin' it.
When all is said and done, the South Florida act with the most stage presence, the most raw energy, and the most eyeliner (ha!) will get to perform in front of the masses at the New
Times' 13th annual Beerfest, April 17. Go get your entries in now!
The rest of the important info follows after the jump.
Upcoming Events
Toni Braxton
TicketsWed., Oct. 26, 8:00pm
Anthony Hamilton With Lalah Hathaway & Eric Benet
TicketsThu., Oct. 27, 7:30pm
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TicketsFri., Oct. 28, 7:30pm
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TicketsFri., Oct. 28, 8:00pm
Sia: Nostalgic For The Present Tour
TicketsSat., Oct. 29, 7:00pm
To enter: post a video, MP3, a link to your MySpace, or something that
lets us know that you're for real at myspace.com/NewTimes and include
the phrase "(Your Band's Name) Rocks the Yard" by Tuesday, March 23. If you're that wildly lazy, just drop your band's info in the comments for this posting.
will help the judges narrow it down to the best five entrants, who will
each get to rock two songs in front of us during our Battle of the
Bands on March 27. The Battle champion goes on to open up Beerfest
on April 17.
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First Presbyterian Church
6470 Main Street, Gloucester, Virginia
Sunday, October 30, 2016
Services at 8:30 & 11:00 AM which is the Twenty-fourth Sunday after Pentecost.
Title of Sermon: "Learning to Be Content"
Based on these scriptures: Exodus 20:17, 1 Philippians 2:1-8, Galatians 5:22-26, and Philippians 4:10-14
Covetousness arises when we are not content with what we have. It arises when we look at someone else and envy their position or their possessions. Greed, envy, and covetousness can lead to other more hurtful and harmful sins against those around us. Covetousness is defeated when we look to God to supply our needs and do not look to what those around us have.
We look forward to you sharing with us for worship!
Meet Pastor DougOur Pastor, Rev. Dr. Douglas (Doug) Nagel, has been an inspiration to our community and our congregation. Rev. Nagel's sermons are full of insightful stories that have real-life meaning and scriptural relevance, all while being engaging and full of life-force.
Hebrews 12:1-2, 20-24, 1 John 1:1-3 and 1 Corinthians 12:7, 3:21-23
Communion is fellowship: fellowship with God, fellowship with other believers here on earth, but also a fellowship with the Church Triumphant, those who have gone to be with the Lord and with whom we will be reunited someday. This is both our present experience and our future hope that God has given us in Christ.


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Did you know that God Loves You? He surely does. Even if you feel you do not deserve His Love; He Loves You Always. (16) For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. ~ John 3:16 If you are feeling like you are not loved, that is not true, if you have faith. You are loved more than you know. God love the world so much that He gave us His one and only true Son so that we may live and have everything we desire. When you believe, truly believe in Him; cling to Him; rely on Him, you shall not fall to destruction or ever be lost again. You will have everlasting, never ending, life with God. This is His wish for you. This verse in the Bible (John 3:16) tells us that because He gave us His Son, Jesus, and because we believe in Jesus and Him, we are saved by faith. Faith in God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit is brings God's Love to us. You are very special to God. God doesn't love you because you are a good person and feel you do everything right. He loves you because God is Love. Love is not something that God does; Love is something He is. This is God's nature. His love is pure and forever flowing to you. You cannot earn His love or feel you deserve His love. The only way to received God's love is by Faith. (19) …to know the love of Christ which passes knowledge; that you may be filled with all the fullness of God. ~ Ephesians 3:19 Paul writes and prays that we may really know God's love. When we do, we are strengthened in our inner person. When we are strengthened inwardly we project outwardly and there are no difficulties to defeat us. We have our God's love. We can't get any better than that! What we speak we bring to fruition. You must watch what you say. This should help; Just say this — "I know that God Loves me. I am so special to God. I receive His never-ending, everlasting love today and everyday. He strengthens my inner person. I am loved by God." …View full post
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Styx - This love lyrics
This love by Styx
captain america is that you?
flying down the highway in your red white and blue.
you remind of the days in that infamous war,
when we weren't quite sure what we were fighting for.
i see you again and it makes me think about,
just who i am.
is ther someone you trust who can lead the way tonight?
who knows the plan?
where there's love,
there is grace.
There is love
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