Wednesday, February 4, 2009

knowledge management definitions

KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT:

1)"Knowledge Management is the discipline of enabling individuals, teams and entire organisations to collectively and systematically create, share and apply knowledge, to better achieve their objectives"
Ron Young, CEO/CKO Knowledge Associates International

2)"Knowledge management will deliver outstanding collaboration and partnership working. It will ensure the region maximizes the value of its information and knowledge assets and it will help its citizens to use their creativity and skills better, leading to improved effectiveness and greater innovation".
West Midlands Regional Observatory, UK

3)"We recognise that our most important asset is people and their knowledge. We understand Knowledge Management (KM) as the cultivation of an environment within which people are willing to share, learn and collaborate together leading to improvement".
Care Services Improvement Partnership (CSIP)

In my view knowledge management means we can build knowledge from the following:

Capturing information: The information is there somewhere may be on pc, book, an attached file all documents are stored in one central repository. Therefore information is more likely to be captures stored and made available for reuse.

Finding information: when a user has to search a network file he must know exactly about that where to look.

Consuming information: A user finds that information in context, meaning in the information and some relative data that enables user to relevance of that piece of information.

By this where people create, collaborate and capture information and store the information by which they can build knowledge from this information. Here they can get knowledge from books, journals and they exchange knowledge between many individuals where they share and get different thoughts in their discussions.



1) Developing an appropriate culture and strategy.
2) Learning organisation and knowledge infrastructure
3) Using information technology developing knowledge management and innovation
4) Access new directions in knowledge management.

My own knowledge:
I am interested to know about the hardware of PCs. When I was learning programming courses in computer learning centre I found some PC which has got some hardware problems so I took permission from my head of the institute to work on them. I started to work on them myself and try to solve the hardware problem and head of the institute have come to know about this and trained me in his institute and offered me a job.


Reference:
http://www.knowledge-management-online.com/Definition-of-Knowledge-Management.html
15/06/08 wikis by Michael Idinopulos and Ross mayfield
http://www.zoliblog.com/2007/1/18/wikis-are-not-knowledge-management-tools/
http://www.tlainc.com/articl56.htm
http://info.emeraldinsight.com/products/journals/journals.htm?PHPSESSID=i190qp981m3vm2eri17199fpt6&id=jkm

3 comments:

  1. These are interesting definitions, but you have not put them in the context of your own position or in the setting of an organisation you want to use for an example. They appear as a set of point, not joined together in an argument. You must write more of your own analysis.

    And, please correct the spelling of 'definition'.

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  2. Harish your article is good, and the example is also good but try to analyse KM more and also try to compare the definations rather than just defining them.

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  3. hi,i think the example you have given to knowledge management is not sufficient try to give any good one.
    all the best

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