: About Me

Dr Andreas Gerhardus Velthuizen is an inspired knowledge practitioner and entrepreneur delivering services as interim knowledge manager, researcher, learning facilitator, and transformation management consultant for business and communities in Africa.

After an earlier Masters Degree in Strategic Studies at the University Of South Africa (UNISA), in 2007 he completed a Doctors Degree at the same university with the title The Management of Knowledge: A Model for the African Renaissance, a trans-disciplinary study dealing with the management of knowledge in Africa according to a trans-dimensional knowledge management model. The thesis presents a knowledge management approach to find solutions for international organizations and African society towards lasting peace, growth, competitiveness, and productivity in Africa. The study includes field studies done in Uganda, Kigali (Rwanda), and the International Criminal Tribunal in Arusha (Tanzania) and in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

His former career of 34 years in the military (which included service in Namibia, Swaziland, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo) exposed him to intense experience on policy, strategic and operational levels in the public service and specifically the multi-disciplinary, multi-cultural, and international environment.

Dries has a passion for writing and learning. He is considered by his associates as a competent manager and experienced in research, learning facilitation, knowledge management, as well as producing solutions for policy, strategic decision-making, and action plans.

Andreas Gerhardus Velthuizen was born in 1956 and is married for twenty-six years. He has two adult children (a son and a daughter). For the last twenty-four years, he resides north of the Magalies Mountains in Pretoria, the Capital of South Africa, from where he inter-connects with the local and international community through his vocation, as scholar, and as community leader.

My passion is ...

Writing and nature

I know too much about ...

Politics

My childhood ambition ...

is to become financially independant so that I can help others who struggle

My favorite memory ...

Playing with my children on the beach at Uvongo, canoeing on the Kwando river with my wife and baby, skydiving over the Kruger National Park, the view from the Drakensberg, meditating on an island in the Elephants River,climbing Gebel Musa in Sinai.

Why I write ...

To make my thinking visible for others who seek solutions

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

I am watching the game of rugby because of the classic strategy, tactics,passion and personal charachter that is applied to the game.

My first job ...

Platoon Commander

My best moment ...

My wedding, birth of my son, birth of my daughter, birth of my granddaughter

My inspiration ...

Nature,the unseen,my family,business objectives, the need of others

Business > Office What is knowledge management?

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NEW WAYS OF KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT: THE ACQUISITION OF DATA FOR KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTION How do you produce new knowledge? Behind this simple question lies a complex set of activities and good practices. First of all, it is important to understand what knowledge is. Despite many fancy definitions, "knowledge" simply means what a person knows. No other object can contain knowledge other than the human mind. A computer can never "know" something. It can process information, but at some point a human mind is required to make sense of it all. Furthermore, we need to revisit the term production. Prod...

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