Long before Knowledge Management became a term du jour, the industrialist giant, Andrew Carnegie, said, “The only irreplaceable capital an organization possesses is the knowledge and ability of its people. The productivity of that capital depends on how effectively people share their competence with those who can use it.” The author of modern management, Peter Drucker, wrote, “The basic economic resource—the means of production—is no longer capital, nor natural resources, nor labor. It is and will be knowledge.” Even the genius of Charles Darwin makes the point, “It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.” In this age, the only constant is change. Beside the well known changes in technology, there are continuing changes politically, socially, and economically. The ability of an organization to stay current and stay relevant requires a core competence in Knowledge Management.

Knowledge Management can transform your organization to new levels of effectiveness, efficiency, and scope of operation. Through advancements in technology, data and information are readily available. The modern business manager is able to discover and learn new measures, new technologies, and new opportunities, but this requires the ability to gather information in usable formats and disseminate knowledge to achieve the organization’s objectives.

Knowledge Management is continually discovering what an organization knows—codifying tacit knowledge, Data Mining, and Business Intelligence; continually increasing what the organization knows—organizational learning and communities of practice, and continually organizing and disseminating explicit knowledge for use throughout the organization.

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Knowledge Management is all about people
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Get Trained In ITIL V3 With QAI India
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The ITIL V3 introduces new topics like strategic aspects, service design aspects, supplier management, outsourcing, service knowledge management system, …

SkillSoft and Global Knowledge Offer Blended Learning Solutions
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Autonomy Plays Vital Role in Success of the US Department of …
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With an effective knowledge management framework, the US Department of State has improved its ability to understand and lead foreign policy community at …

Automated knowledge management system
A knowledge management system includes a data recognition engine that dynamically defines metadata to be extracted from a plurality of data sources. A data collection engine is coupled to the data recognition engine to detect and.

11 Deadly KM Sins Revisited
By Mike Gotta
In my experience, I do not find it a “sin” to not have a definition of knowledge or knowledge management per se. What is important is that organizations define what the terms mean to them rather than attempt to find solace in some …

Social Networking in Plain English (video)
By lawyerkm
… as it is a popular spam fighter in firms (apparently 48% of firms use them). Only time will tell. On a related note, Wikipedia has this interesting list of Google acquisitions. LawyerKM :: Knowledge Management for Lawyers.

KM deadly sins revisited
By Jack Vinson
Dave Snowden dredged up a ten-year old article by Fahey and Prusak, The Eleven Deadliest Sins of Knowledge Management,

The Thin Red Line……
By Arjun Thomas
Knowledge Management is a very interesting field, of that i have no doubt. There is no time to get used to what you are doing, coz before you know it something else springs up. At least that’s the way I’m used to working. …

The major concentration of organizational learning is challenging and mentoring the Knowledge Worker and the Knowledge Teams.

This book addresses the common impact of Communities of Practice in the education and support of the Knowledge Worker as well as the innovation and new knowledge that results of Communities of Practice.

This is a reference book for the office of Knowledge Management practitioners who require a hard copy edition that, as the product description reads, “provides a broad basis for understanding the issues, technologies, theories, applications, opportunities and challenges being faced by researchers and organizations today in their quest for knowledge management.”

It is a well regarded, systematic reference manual to this topic and a value in excess of its weight in gold. With high reviews from the instructors who require this text, it is a selection for someone who needs to thoroughly learn Knowledge Management.

This is an awesome book that targets the human perspectives in the organization’s social and cultural influences.

Any practitioner, whether at a large organization with a current Knowledge Management practice or a corporation new to the field, would benefit from information present in this book.

The textbook covers common practices and processes at several of the prominent organizations actively implementing Knowledge Management.

It is compact and yet thorough. It is an ideal book to suggest to a partner who needs a quick read on what is KM.