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