Assistant Professor
Knowledge Management
Dr.Vinayakam,MLM.,Ph.D.,
Assistant Professor.
Introduction
The society is in transition, from Agrarian society, Industrial society, Information society and now the 21st century is considers as the Global Knowledge society. The concept, knowledge management is often used today’s world. And in the knowledge based society, intellectual capital is considered as a prime resource for any organisation. Thus Peter Drucker said, “The foundation of an organisation is not money or capital or technology. It is knowledge and education (human capital), knowledge workers will be by 2005 the single largest group in the labour force”.
The emergence of new complicated situation made every organization to have knowledge management initiatives to accumulate, preserve and utilize the knowledge in systematic ways. Every world renewed organisations are now trying to achieve knowledge management principles for their operations.
It is concerned with the use and developments of knowledge asset of an organisation. The knowledge is either explicit knowledge or tacit knowledge. The explicit knowledge is called as documentary knowledge and the tacit knowledge or subjective knowledge is resides in the minds of employees/scientists and so on.
What is knowledge management?
It covers all process associates with the identification, sharing and creation of knowledge, but sharing of explicit knowledge can be easy than that of the tacit knowledge. but for successful knowledge management is an organization, creation of knowledge repositories and cultivating the habits of sharing the knowledge among employees and organisational learning.
Pre – Requisites: To develop a knowledge Management systems following are essentials.
Knowledge repositories: it is necessary to create knowledge repositories that stores knowledge and information both in documentary or digital forms.
Knowledge access: the knowledge or information stored in the repositories should be made available for easy access to all the employees of an organisation.
Enhancing knowledge environment: it is necessary to create conducive environment to produce knowledge, transfer and use
Knowledge management: knowledge is an asset of an organisation and a person that should be managed systematically.
Principles of knowledge Representation
A knowledge representation is a surrogate, set of ontological commitments, and fragmentary theory of intelligent reasoning, medium for efficient computation and medium of Human expression.
Reference
Book, George (1854) An Investigation into the laws of thought, reprinted by Dover publications, New York.
Born, Max (1949) National philosophy of cause and chance, Dover publications, New York.
Gartner Group, European E –work and knowledge management march 1998, pp.30 – 31.
Peter Drucker, (2000), knowledge work executive excellence, pp.11 – 12.
Minsky, Marvin (1965) “Mater, Mind and Models”, proceedings of IFIP congress 65, pp45 -49.
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