Can knowledge be managed in the organisation?

Knowledge Age:

As we all know that the knowledge has no barrier in case of a age, sex, and the behaviour. In this current world we have a greatest technology and we are advancing day by day and competing each other. Many experts argue that technology is the life for the machine and the machine is controlling the life. The technology also helps to organise and store the data and helps us to verify any where in the world with out any time barrier. This data can be encoded and distributed, transformed to how many every you like and the data can be stored safely for any number of years. How a boy grow fo day to day the knowledge and the technology is also increasing day by day. Even though it is a good thing the threat is that it is very easy to interrupt and spoil the data in a different ways and it may affect the co-operate culture. The stored data can be used for reference and for the training purposes and it will help so many people to gain a vast knowledge and can have the experience of the past data which may excite the youth so much. The data can also help to find out the and the time of development or at the time of rectification of any mistake. The knowledge can be shared in different ways such as graphics, animation and video with a better visualization and interpretation.

Sources of Knowledge:

In this business environment the knowledge can be shared from upper to lower level or at the pear level and even it can be with customer also. It may happen at any point of time like in meetings, seminars, research article, minutes of meeting, exchanges of correspondences, application of patent, copyrights and trademark and host of other documents. There are so many employees who are working with the organisation for such a long period of time. Their minds are the main assets to the company which may help the company to get their advice. So the company should be ready to protect the minds of the senior employees for the clarification of the remedies.

Managing knowledge as a corporate policy:

The main investment to the cooperative world is the knowledge which is essential at the level of competitive world.

Knowledge management can be defined as "the harnessing of a company's collective expertise wherever it resides and the distribution of that expertise to the right people at the right time. It's not a product but a process-the process of gathering, managing, and sharing your employees' knowledge capital."

Today organizations are realizing the importance of managing the knowledge it is to “know what they know” and looking for maximum use of it. One main source of gaining competitive advantage is knowledge. Success is an increasingly key factor for every organisation in the competitive marketplace depends more on the quality and effective management of knowledge which every organizations plans to implement in their key business processes.


Yes, Knowledge Can Be Managed:

To achieve knowledge management requires huge investment. The business strategy of every organization must recognise the necessity to capture knowledge and actively promote the effort. Knowledge exists in people, not technology, and as such will require a considerable human effort. Technology plays a vital role in capturing information, but it doesn’t create knowledge. some of the useful technologies for creation of search engines, scanning technology, optical character and voice recognition software, intelligent agents, database management systems, document management systems, and repositories.
After identifying , collection, and managing the information, it will be transformed into knowledge. Which includes classification, analysis, and synthesis. This cannot be achieved without human involvement, which shows Knowledge can not be created by using technology. This is a process of rendering information into a format that can be easily transformed into knowledge upon retrieval which includes human effort. Useful technologies for this phase of the knowledge management process include statistical analysis software, data mining tools, OLAP and decision support systems, AI, and data visualization tools.
The final phase is effective sharing of knowledge.to achieve oragnisational goals" I use "knowledge" in quotes .Latest web 2.0 Technologies that helps in facilitating intrernal and external communication which includes collaboration technology, groupware, workflow management systems, e-mail, the web, networking technology, and mobile computing. The captured "knowledge" should be easily convertible into any format preferred by the recipient (for example, word processing documents, Adobe files, text files, etc.)

GartnerGroup, 29 August 1996, www.gartner.com


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- Michael A Rannelli, 2001, The Organization and Knowledge Management vol 01, pg no 55, Sage Publications.