Tuesday 27 January 2009

What is Knowledge Management (KM)? -Definitions

Various definitions have been given a few of which are:

“.. KM is the process through which organizations generate value from their intellectual and knowledge-based assets” [Meredith Levinson, @ CIO Magazine]

"Knowledge Management is the process of capturing value, knowledge and understanding of corporate information, using IT systems, in order to maintain, re-use and re-deploy that knowledge". [Source: OIC Document Management]

Simply put, Knowledge management is the process or way by which an Organisation can tap into the knowledge of its assets including staff, to optimize that knowledge for the success of the Organisation. In order words, simply having access to information does not constitute Knowledge management for it is a process.

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