Knowledge Management tools and Its Use

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What is Knowledge?

Facts, information, and skills acquired through experience or education;

What is Knowledge Management?

Knowledge Management (KM) means achieving organizational objectives by making the best use of knowledge. Or we can say it is about getting the right knowledge to the right person at right time.

Knowledge is the perception of the agreement or disagreement of two ideas—John Locke (1689) BOOK IV. Of Knowledge and Probability. An Essay: Concerning Human Understanding.

Types Of Knowledge

Explicit Knowledge: Codified knowledge that can be transmitted in formal, systematic language.

“We can know more than we can tell”- by Michael Polanyi (1958)

Tacit Knowledge: Tacit knowledge is kind of knowledge that is difficult to transfer to another person by means of writing it down. The term first used by Michael Polanyi.

Knowledge Management

Tools

List of Knowledge Management Tools

Knowledge Management tools

Brainstorming It is a simple way of helping a group of people to generate new and unusual ideas.

Storytelling : Storytelling has been used as a powerful way to share and transfer knowledge, especially experiential and tacit knowledge.

Community of Practice:Community of Practice (CoP) is a term that describes a group of people who Share a craft, and/or a profession. (Jean Lave and Etienne Wenger)

Social Networks:Social network helps in:1. Finding people;2. Aggregating people into groups, or subgroups,3. Sharing content4. Advertisement/ Announcement etc.

Blogs: Blog is a 'journal style' website that contains a list of entries, usually in reverse chronological order.

Knowledge Management tools

Wiki: A Web site developed collaboratively by a community of users, allowing any user to add and edit content. Inventor of wiki is Ward Cunninghum

Forum: A meeting or medium where ideas and views on a particular issue can be exchanged.

Knowledge Café: A Knowledge Café is a type of informal business meeting or workshops which aims to get collective knowledge, sharing ideas, insights etc. Developed by Elizabeth Lank.