Denham Grey Denham C. Grey Denham Grey, CEO of GreyMatter, Inc ., has been involved with information surveys, data process and computer modeling in a wide variety of industries. He has been practicing knowledge elicitation and building expert systems since 1985 and developed the largest commercial expert system in Africa in 1991. As a proponent of knowledge ecology, Denham is especially sensitive to people and cultural issues surrounding knowledge acquisition.
Knowledge mapping is far more than charting the paths of information objects.
Denham has made a special study of knowledge artifacts, their identification, reification, role and importance in our knowledge economy and is regarded as a pioneer in this field. Working with groups and individuals, Denham has elicited tacit knowledge in areas as separate as the interpretation and evaluation of soil auger logs, assessment of forest fire risk, diagnostics for trouble shooting the IBM ThinkPad, and diagnosis of network printer problems. He is comfortable working with individual domain experts or large groups, capturing heuristics, identifying constraints to knowledge flows, locating emergent communities of practice, or scanning for knowledge related opportunities in product development. Denham has developed a unique proprietary opportunities matrix and a taxonomy of knowledge related practices, tasks and activities to ensure completeness and thoroughly scan the environment while completing a knowledge audit. Denham is currently on assignment at Community Hospitals Inc. and responsible for Y2k issues connected with hospital infrastructure and building services.