KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT and KID

Knowledge Management is necessary about knowledge and about the transfer of knowledge from one person to another in an organisation.Knowledge Management is encompasses identifying and mapping intellectual assets within the organization, generating new knowledge for competitive advantage within the organization, making vast amounts of company information accessible, sharing of best practices, and technology that enables all of the above — including groupwork and internet.It is thoughtfull application of any concept or definition.
Ex.
but if you want a more simple straight-forward explanation, I suggest you think about what it is that makes your company different from your competitors, then think about how you would protect this advantage, and how you would control this difference and advantage against your competitors, or use it to win more business? Can you even identify this advantage?knowledge is power is the old saying, and it's no different in business. Sometimes this knowledge is held in people's heads, a problem not only confined to small family run businesses - whereby the founder still retains all the information, the contacts, the personal relationships. Sometimes this advantage is held by a group of outstanding sales-people, sometimes it is knowledge associated with a process, or a service or a official document. This is the sort of knowledge you need to manage.It may be as simple as getting everybody to securely share their contact lists, or making sure all processes are documented; all computer files are backed up securely. One easy way to decide what you need to "manage" is to consider what would happen in a disaster - if a key person were to leave or die, or if the office was packed down by a storm or your computer destroyed by a power surge. Yes - failure planning is a form of knowledge management, and probably a very good place to start your thinking.Once you know what knowledge you have - then you can think about how to use it to your advantage. Sometimes, you don't actually know what you have, and only by doing the exercise, can you see whether alternative business strategies or opportunities exist that hadn't been considered before.There is more to knowledge management than "a computer system". Shared technologies (wiki's, document management systems, blogs, etc.) are a great way of "enabling" a company and "engaging" the staff in the business, and a serious start on the knowledge management path. More important though, is the will and culture of a company to first record what it does, to document, then to learn and developed. Quality control fits into all this, as does regulatory frameworks, and human resources.

Critics
Although there are some who believe knowledge management is a trend, I irmly believe that senior management will always be interested and absorbed in better ways to create and apply knowledge. The term “knowledge management” may be misleading or may even go out of fashion in certain parts of the world. However, knowledge always has been, and always will be, a critical resource and can be the most strategic asset for any individual, organization, region and, of course, for the entire planet. Knowledge working is also very eco-friendly and provides the opportunity for everyone to improve their quality of life.

Knowledge workers:

Hiring, retention, and productivity of knowledge workers have always been important issue. As the shortage of persons qualified to perform knowledge work increases, employers will be challenged to find more effective ways to hire and retain these individuals. In order to improve productivity, management makes sure how to promote teamwork among knowledge workers, how to best design the workplace, and how to keep knowledge workers from becoming overwhelmed with the information they need to do their jobs. As these knowledge workers are so important factors of the organization and without them an organization can fall into failure or cant cope up the competition where new improved information is considered as the powerful tool to be better than others, so it is one of the main targets of the management to keep them retained with their organization and make sure that they give their best to them by keeping their morale high. Management of knowledge workers is an ongoing process in every organization which starts from Hiring a new employee for a vacancy, creating benefits package, Recruiting, Training, Motivating, Performance reviews. Therefore, understanding the theory and application of motivation is very important in managing knowledge workers in making the organizations succeed.

Here's some authors said on KM:
Karl M. Wiig,1997 said Organisation are regularly searching right path for company performance and results.But knowledge mangement is multi dimensional and covers most ascepts of oranganistion activities.Organisation success and competitive shows enterprises balanced intellectual capital selection.In organization set board meeting and set the goals of managing intellectual capital and alternate effective knowledge processes.With knowledge as major driving force behind the economics of ideas.

Rory L. Chase,1997 said organisation recognize by good decision making ,well catorized and sharing knowledge.And knowledge management implementation is a simple issues like culture and members of a organisation.Many oraganisation are effectively use K M techniques .

Chris Collison and Geoff parcell are said KM is framework that can be used for capturing,sharing and exploting knowledge ,experience and good practices.And the methodology provides a number of tools,interventations and facilitation techniques to help for oraganisation to learn,during and after activities.

Employee Motivation and Knowledge Management
I see many areas where knowledge management can help with employee motivation.Culture is an area where knowledge management can make a big difference. Sharing, collaboration, social bonds and teamwork are all pillars of a knowledge management program.I also think the use of enterprise 2.0 tools are very useful when it comes to transparency. If the firm is creating a new firm-wide policy, it is easy to post a draft policy and allow comments to the draft. The policy-maker is accessing the collective knowledge of the firm to improve the policy. They are also finding the resistance points that will need to be overcome to implement and enforce the policy. They are also getting the employees engaged by recognizing that their opinions matter.




References:
Karl M. Wiig,vol 1,Issuse 1,(1997),http://www.emeraldinsight.com/10.1108/13673279710800682

Rory L. Chase,vol1,Issuse 1,(1997), http://www.emeraldinsight.com/10.1108/EUM0000000004578

Chris Collison geoff parcell http://www.12manage.com/methods_collison_knowledge_management.html

Alan D. Smith, William T. Rupp (2003),”Knowledge workers: exploring the link among performance rating, pay and motivational aspects “,Journal of Knowledge Management, MCB UP Ltd, Volume: 7 Issue: 1 Page: 107 – 124


KNOWLEDGE,INFORMATION AND DATA (KID)

KNOWLEDGE

Any information is gives meaning by adding some individuals skills or experience.Knowledge component is business activities as explicit knowledge related of organisation reflected in strategies,policy and practice for a organisation.Knowledge as being two types:
Explicit knowledge: In orgainsation most of the peoples are sharing their ideas or knowledge with others.
Tacits knowledge: In oraganisation some peoples are not sharing their ideas or knowledge with others.
Example of knowledge is whatever we read something in books and internet that is information and whatever information we takes or got,stored in our mind that is knowledge.I had done worked with HCL Infostems Limited,INDIA.In that company whatever I had learnt in my training or takes information that is knowledge of my worked .

INFORMATION

When data is well oraganized, structured or well presented in a given context is called information. ex: In schools students marks or others details and In companies employees how many hours worked details in last month or rota for next months ,it is called information.

DATA

Data is a plain facts and symbols.eg. In companies employees details how many hours works to do for next month and In school's student details stored is called data

Introduction to ORGANISATION,STRATEGIES,COP AND TEAM

ORGANISATION
In Organisation are working many peoples and working in groups all have common goals or set of goals to achieve .In Business organization is big in size from two employess to thousands of employees working.Severals important aspects to related about goals during the strategic process for an organisation.


Strategies:
Strategy refers to basic direction decision i.e to purposes and mission.Strategy is for top management level does that is huge importance to the organization.Strategy answers the question(what should the organization be doing? ; What are the goals we look for and how should we achieve to goal?).
consder a following
Vision:What the business trying to achieve,how it will be done and how the new systems will achieve the goals
Resources: Check on the affordability of the business to the invest in a new KM system
Culture:It is the company's policital and social envirnoment amenable to adopting a new KM system?


Example:In HCL infosystem Limited,I had done worked in group,we have worked for common goals i.e for organisation.They have common legal rules and procedues that is must stand for laws in organization .And we have make a strategies for our project to do successfully.We makes a new strategies in several time periods to achieved our goals successfully.Strategies are very benifical for our projected.Most of the Important strategies are taking in mangement level for our oraganisation.And their strategies are benifit for our oraganisation.



Community of Pratice(CoP):

In CoP, when the peoples are shared their information or knowledge with others .It is a process of collective learning shared eg facebook,Myspace. According to a Etienne Wenger's website, a community of practice has 3 characteristics.
The domain
The community
The practice
(Etienne wenger http://ewenger.com/theory/)

TEAM :

I understand that team is a group of peoples oraganized to do work together with a common goals in an oraganisation and in sports.
Team success depend on:
team size
leadership and team motivation
promising more than can be realistically delivered

About me

I am Nitin Sharma. I am pursuing Masters in Business Info. Sys. Mgt. from Middlesex University,London.

I have done B.tech in Electronics and Communication from IASE university,Rajasthan,India.And also I have certified linux adminstration and security from HCL Infosystem limited,India.