Explicit knowledge management

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This type of KM involves the documentation and codification of knowledge in a searchable format for easy retrieval and use.

Knowledge Management Strategy: Developing a plan of how to capture, store, distribute, and facilitate the use of explicit knowledge within an organization.
Knowledge Audit: Assessing the existing explicit knowledge assets within an organization to identify gaps, weaknesses, strengths, and opportunities for improvement.
Knowledge Mapping: Defining the explicit knowledge that exists within an organization, identifying how it is created, where it is stored, and how it is used.
Knowledge Sharing: Implementing processes, tools, and technologies to enable employees to share explicit knowledge.
Taxonomy and Classification: Developing a classification scheme to organize and categorize explicit knowledge, enabling easy retrieval and sharing.
Knowledge Repository: Creating a central repository where explicit knowledge can be stored, accessed, and managed.
Content Management: Managing the lifecycle of explicit knowledge, from creation to disposition, ensuring it remains relevant and up-to-date.
Communication and Collaboration: Facilitating communication and collaboration among employees to improve the creation and sharing of explicit knowledge.
Information Retrieval: Designing and implementing a search engine, to enable employees to find explicit knowledge quickly and easily.
Intellectual Property Rights: Addressing legal and ethical issues surrounding ownership, use, and protection of explicit knowledge.
Performance Measurement and Evaluation: Measuring the impact of explicit knowledge management initiatives and determining their effectiveness.
Continuous Improvement: Developing processes to continually improve the management of explicit knowledge within an organization.
Technology Adoption: Deciding on the appropriate technology and tools to support the management of explicit knowledge within an organization.
Organizational Culture: Creating a culture of knowledge sharing and learning, to support the effective management of explicit knowledge.
Change Management: Developing strategies for overcoming resistance to change and managing the adoption of new explicit knowledge management processes and tools.
Documentation Management: This involves organizing and managing documents efficiently to ensure they are easy to access and retrieve in the future. The documents can contain policy manuals, user manuals, training materials, research papers, and technical documents.
Knowledge Repositories: Knowledge repositories allow organizations to store structured and unstructured data such as email, discussion forums, blogs, wikis, and other knowledge resources, making it easy to find and manage this information.
Search Engines: This technique involves the use of search engines to retrieve explicit knowledge for the benefit of knowledge workers in the organization. It includes enterprise search software and knowledge discovery tools.
Best Practice Management: Collecting data from different domains and organizing it to help employees solve problems is another type of explicit knowledge management. It can help organizations share best practices across different business units, improve decision-making, and identify opportunities for innovation.
Expert Systems: Expert systems are computer programs that emulate the decision-making ability of a human expert. They can provide assistance with complex tasks and decision-making processes, and capture expertise of an organization's knowledge experts.
Referral Systems: These systems allow organizations to manage inquiries or requests from employees by routing them to the right person or department. It can help reduce response/decision time, improve efficiency and productivity, and ensure better quality of service.
Content Management: Content management involves the management of all types of digital content (text, images, videos, audio files, etc.) created, stored, or shared by an organization. It involves creating detailed workflows, managing the information from creation to destruction, and creating storage and retrieval procedures.
Document Management: Document management systems allow organizations to store, track, and manage electronic documents in a centralized location. This allows teams to collaborate on documents, manage approvals, track revisions and access the most up-to-date version of a document.
"Knowledge management (KM) is the collection of methods relating to creating, sharing, using and managing the knowledge and information of an organization."
"An established discipline since 1991..."
"Other fields may contribute to KM research, including information and media, computer science, public health and public policy."
"Several universities offer dedicated master's degrees in knowledge management."
"Many large companies, public institutions, and non-profit organizations have resources dedicated to internal KM efforts..."
"Knowledge management efforts typically focus on organizational objectives such as improved performance, competitive advantage, innovation, the sharing of lessons learned, integration, and continuous improvement of the organization."
"These efforts overlap with organizational learning and may be distinguished from that by a greater focus on the management of knowledge as a strategic asset and on encouraging the sharing of knowledge."
"KM is an enabler of organizational learning."
"The most complex scenario for knowledge management may be found in the context of supply chain as it involves multiple companies without an ownership relationship or hierarchy between them, being called by some authors as transorganizational or interorganizational knowledge."
"That complexity is additionally increased by industry 4.0 (or 4th industrial revolution) and digital transformation, as new challenges emerge from both the volume and speed of information flows and knowledge generation."
"[KM] includes courses taught in the fields of business administration, information systems, management, library, and information science."
"...often as a part of their business strategy, IT, or human resource management departments."
"...often as a part of their business strategy..."
"KM efforts... focus on the management of knowledge as a strategic asset and on encouraging the sharing of knowledge."
"KM efforts typically focus on organizational objectives such as... innovation..."
"...as new challenges emerge from both the volume and speed of information flows and knowledge generation."
"Other fields may contribute to KM research, including information and media, computer science, public health and public policy."
"Other fields may contribute to KM research, including information and media..."
"KM efforts typically focus on organizational objectives such as improved performance..."
"KM efforts typically focus on organizational objectives such as... competitive advantage..."