1. Executive summary This report analyses the importance of knowledge management in the organisational context for maintaining competitive edge in the market. It conducts an analysis of the key areas in knowledge management with effective implementation of the different strategies for efficient knowledge management and knowledge transfer within the different levels of management in an organisation‚ these have been elaborated. Furthermore the report discusses the methods and strategies adopted
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Knowledge management is the name of a concept in which an enterprise consciously and comprehensively gathers‚ organizes‚ shares‚ and analyzes its knowledge in terms of resources‚ documents‚ and people skills. In early 1998‚ it was believed that few enterprises actually had a comprehensive knowledge management practice (by any name) in operation. Advances in technology and the way we access and share information have changed that; many enterprises now have some kind of knowledge management framework
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I. Introduction Creativity is regarded as the major contributor to an organization’s competitiveness. However important creativity is‚ there has been a general problem in the management of creativity. Amabile (1998) claimed that most management impeded creativity in the name of evaluation‚ control and productivity. Managers often referred creativity to the imaginative approach people adopt in problem solving but ignored the importance of expertise and motivation. It is especially significant that
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School of Information Technology ASSIGNMENT COVER SHEET ICT256/556 KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT TECHNIQUES Name: ___________RAI__ SANDEEP 31324443 FAMILY NAME (Capital Letters) Given Names Student Number Assignment Number: 1 Name of Tutor: Dr. Val Hobbs Day & Time of Tutorial: Thursday‚ 8.30 – 10.30 AM Due Date: 09/04/2012 Date Submitted: 15/04/2012 Your assignment should meet the following requirements. Please confirm this by ticking the boxes before
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close control over the business for 25 years as it developed a number of cables for two wheelers. Until he retired in 1995‚ Jagan knew the names of every one of the 250 staff members and their families. He made all decisions about products‚ clients‚ and employment conditions‚ even signed every leave application. Jagan knew all dealers and major two wheeler manufacturers personally. Jagan was Cablex Industries. He knew his industry and business very well. Cablex’s business comprising of two wheelers
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‘KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT PRACTICES’ AND PATH-DEPENDENCY IN INNOVATION* CRIC‚ The University of Manchester Professor Rod Coombs & Richard Hull CRIC Discussion Paper No 2 June 1997 Published by: Centre for Research on Innovation and Competition The University of Manchester Tom Lupton Suite University Precinct Centre Oxford Road‚ Manchester M13 9QH *The authors gratefully acknowledge the support of the ESRC through its ‘Research Programme on Innovation’ for the work on which this
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“Tacit Knowledge” versus “Explicit Knowledge” Approaches to Knowledge Management Practice by Ron Sanchez Professor of Management‚ Copenhagen Business School and Linden Visiting Professor for Industrial Analysis‚ Lund University Contact information: Department of Industrial Economics and Strategy Solbjergvej 3 - 3rd floor DK 2000 Frederiksberg‚ Denmark email: sanchez@cbs.dk Abstract This paper explains two fundamental approaches to knowledge management. The tacit knowledge approach
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Question One Discuss any four social responsibility issues this company is faced with. The essence of social responsibility is summed up in this quotation from the Watkinson Report (1973): “A company should behave like a good citizen in business. The law does not (and cannot) contain or prescribe the whole duty of a citizen. A good citizentakes account of the interests of others besidehimself and tries to exercise aninformal and imaginative ethical judgment in deciding what he should or
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searching some matter about the Knowledge Management. I feel it is worth sharing with everybody IBM Knowledge Management Strategy Abstract IBM began serious measures to incorporate Knowledge Management in their business model in 1994. Since that time‚ they have employed managers devoted sole to KM‚ in their IBM Collaboration and Knowledge services. The result has been a great deal of IT initiatives for the purpose of sharing knowledge. IBM has software that can
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Lund Institute of Economic Research Working Paper Series Knowledge Management and Organizational Learning: Fundamental Concepts for Theory and Practice 2005/3 Ron Sanchez Ron Sanchez‚ Professor of Management Copenhagen Business School‚ Solbjergvej 3 - 3rd floor‚ DK-2000 Frederiksberg‚ Denmark‚ sanchez@cbs.dk Lindén Visiting Professor in Industrial Analysis‚ Institute of Economic Research‚ Lund‚ Sweden Abstract This paper investigates several issues regarding the nature‚ domain‚ conceptual
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