Knowledge Hyperstories The Use of ICT Enhanced Storytelling in Organizations

This paper investigates the question and challenge of knowledge enabling and sharing in distributed organizational environments. On the basis of empirical material from action research in two Norwegian companies, one public organization and one EU-project, we describe and reflect on the development and use of IT enhanced storytelling as a means to address the challenges above. As a point of departure we use the learning histories methodology, and extend this approach by means of ICT into the realm of purposeful digital storytelling for organizational change initiatives. On this background we develop the notion of “knowledge hyperstories”, located at the intersection of learning histories proper, cybertext, hyptertext and the web medium.