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Why Knowledge Management?

Organizations arrive at Knowledge Management (KM) for a variety of reasons that are often hard to define or pinpoint.

Abby Clobridge is the founder of FireOak Strategies. She works with organizations around the world to support knowledge sharing -- including open access, open data, information security -- to connect people to the data, information, and knowledge they need. You can reach Abby at [email protected]


why knowledge management


Organizations arrive at Knowledge Management (KM) for a variety of reasons that are often hard to define or pinpoint.

Frequently, executives or managers sense that something within their organization could be improved and hope that addressing this issue will improve morale, make it faster to get new staff up-to-speed, or generally alleviate tensions stemming from difficult-to-access data, information, and knowledge.

Common sentiments indicating challenges with knowledge management:

“We don’t know who does what.”
“We can’t find what we’re looking for.”
“We want to work together better.”
“We feel like we keep reinventing the wheel.”
“We need to reduce duplication of efforts across silos.”
“It’s tough to collaborate.”
“We’re doing more work across departments, and it’s not going as smoothly as we’d like.”
“We’re not as transparent as we’d like to be.”
“We want to do a better job taking advantage of our staff’s expertise.”
“We don’t do enough with the knowledge we produce.”
“We are generating tons of data, but we don’t know what to do with it or how to make sense out of it.”

Diagnosing a knowledge management challenge is a start, but it doesn’t solve the problem.

 
Read more:
What is Knowledge Management?
Developing a Knowledge Management Program

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