The group is analyzing a case study about knowledge management at an organization. The organization was using a traditional management system that led to long lists of problems that were difficult to remember. It wanted to implement knowledge management to improve technologies and sales using explicit knowledge like stories told by employees. The mechanism used was storytelling to develop new technologies and increase employee commitment and responsibility, resulting in successful knowledge management initiatives.
The group is analyzing a case study about knowledge management at an organization. The organization was using a traditional management system that led to long lists of problems that were difficult to remember. It wanted to implement knowledge management to improve technologies and sales using explicit knowledge like stories told by employees. The mechanism used was storytelling to develop new technologies and increase employee commitment and responsibility, resulting in successful knowledge management initiatives.
The group is analyzing a case study about knowledge management at an organization. The organization was using a traditional management system that led to long lists of problems that were difficult to remember. It wanted to implement knowledge management to improve technologies and sales using explicit knowledge like stories told by employees. The mechanism used was storytelling to develop new technologies and increase employee commitment and responsibility, resulting in successful knowledge management initiatives.
What are the problems? • Traditional management system • Using bullet list problems leading to a long list of problems that people only remember the beginning and the end of the problem list Why the organisation needs knowledge management? • Organization need knowledge to embedded the technologies for better solution and improve the sales What kind of knowledge they want to manage? Tacit or explicit? • Explicit knowledge. At 3M the power of stories is recognized as a means to see themselves and their business operation in complex multidimensional forms. What technologies, mechanisms or KMS they used to solve the problem? • Mechanism used is storytelling • Development of innovative technology enable group product offering and produce different produce than competitors. How successful was the KM initiative at that organisation? • Increase commitment and responsibilities after involve all the employees in story telling.