KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT

“Information regardless of how expensive it was to create it can be replicated and shared at little or no cost.” Thomas Jefferson

According to the business dictionary knowledge management are strategies and processes designed to identify, capture, structure, value, leverage, and share an organization's intellectual assets to enhance its performance and competitiveness.

That’s why people´s knowledge is quite important, but keeping this in organizations is even more important.

Some ways of keeping knowledge inside the organization is by using: 1) blogs, 2) knowledge maps, 3) wikis, 4) Forums, 5) knowledge café, among other techniques.

Knowledge management. Retrieved April 19,2011, from: http://www.informationarchitected.com/training/integrated-knowledge-management/

The following video show´s in more detail how knowledge management function:

Source: Lee Bryant, (July,2008). Retrieved April 19,2011. From:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYq9jmVtQU8

References:

- Marilyn Leask, Caren Lee, Tim Milner, Michael Norton and Dimple Rathod. (March 2008). Knowledge management tools and techniques. pag 9-19. Information retrieved from http://www.idea.gov.uk/idk/aio/8595069

- Knowledge Management- Emerging Perspectives. Retrieved April 19, 2011. From: http://www.systems-thinking.org/kmgmt/kmgmt.htm#references

Nowadays Yoga is a very interesting tool for organizations to motivate and relax their employees. There are studies showing that stress at work affects the European Union to 41 million people and this causes a loss of 20,000 million euros per year.

A yoga center name YogaWork said that improving the physical, mental, intellectual and emotional parts of an individual leads to an improvement on the quality of the company to which he belongs. The following are some benefits that yoga gives to organizations when they used this technique with employees:

       ·Improve concentration, helping to make decisions more efficiently.

·Reduces, prevents and helps manage stress allowing an improvement in mood and a more pleasant work environment.

·Stimulates creativity.

·Improves cognitive performance and employment.

·Maximize employee productivity.

·Generates a more harmonious working environment, motivating employees to work more relaxed and that the working day more bearable.

·Decreases and prevents disease, reducing absenteeism, licenses and medical costs.

·Improving the management of stress and anxiety, resulting in greater productivity at work and the quality of life of the individual. It also helps to prevent stress.

·Eliminates the ill effects of sedentary corporate life: relieves tension of lumbar, cervical and thoracic.

·Increases overall energy.

·Increase organizational capacity.

Yoga in organizations. Retrieved April 18, 2011, from: http://www.elestudio.mx/blog/?p=4

Benefits of Yoga in organizations. Retrieved April 18, 2011, from: http://www.bellezayalma.com/beneficios-del-yoga-2/

References:

- Yoga para Empresas”. (2008). Beneficios del yoga para las empresas. Retrieved: April 18, 2011, from: http://www.yogaparaempresas.com.ar/beneficios.html  

- Sadhaka. (2009, September 16). “el yoga cada vez más triunfa en las empresas”. Retrieved: April 18, 2011, from: http://cuadernodeyoga.com/2009/09/16/el-yoga-cada-vez-mas-triunfa-en-las-empresas/