Architecture is Designing Knowledge Flow - Diana Montalion | Craft 2025

In the tech industry, we are most interested in knowledge stock: What do you know? What information can you apply easily? Whiteboard tests, for example, assess a candidate's stock of knowledge. This focus is holding many individuals, teams and organizations back. As relational complexity increases, individual knowledge stock is insufficient. What we need is knowledge flow. When we craft and share knowledge, we enable the best possible decisions, under the circumstances, in the midst of change. In this talk, we'll explore: The difference between information, knowledge, understanding and wisdom. In that group ... what is data? How "management" differs from systems leadership The emerging practice of developing knowledge systems as a core architectural practice. As Larry Prusak says, "Companies that don’t adapt to understanding knowledge as a force of production … will slowly die, and will never know what killed them." The same is true for technology teams ... how does this change our approaches? This talk was recorded at Craft Conference 2025. The event was organized by CraftHub. You can watch the rest of the conference talks on our channel. If you are interested in more speakers, tickets and details of the conference, check out our website: https://craft-conf.com/ If you are interested in more events from our company: https://crafthub.events/