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Designing A Knowledge Management System
Designing A Knowledge Management System
Get Assess
Use
Knowledge-based
Assets
Learn
Contribute Build/
Sustain
Divest
Abhoy K. Ojha, Indian Institute of
Management, Bangalore
The Tactical Process
Get
How do organization members seek information that is relevant to
problems/decisions ?
Use
How do organization members combine information/knowledge to apply to
problems/decisions?
Learn
How do organizational members acquire knowledge from successes and
failures ?
Contribute
How do organization members share their knowledge / learning with others in
the organization?
push/pull technologies
involve the user in deciding on access technologies
Librarian/Cybrarian
Knowledge Manager (new role)
Domain/Area Experts
Visibility (The link between strategy and the learning derived from
everyday actions is obvious)
Allow employees the time and space to contribute their best work
Create dedicated roles that support the contribution process
Support transfer of tacit knowledge
Weave an organizational web
Assess
How can the knowledge-based assets be leveraged to create value for
customers?
Divest
When and how to withdraw efforts related to knowledge that no longer
provides competitive advantage ?
Discriminate between forms of knowledge that can be leveraged and those that
are limited.
Find alternatives to direct acquisition in order to experiment with knowledge.