Knowledge+Management

=Knowledge Management (N=16)=


 * Definition 1:** [Knowledge management is a] discipline within an organisation that ensures that the intellectual capabilities of an organisation are shared, maintained and institutionalised.
 * Source:** http://servicedesk.unimelb.edu.au/knowledgebase/itservices/a-z/k.html
 * Focus:** n/a


 * Definition 2:** Knowledge Management: The process of systematically and actively managing and leveraging the stores of knowledge in an organisation is called knowledge management. It is the process of transforming information and intellectual assets into enduring value.
 * Source:** [|www.usq.edu.au/planstats/Docs/GlossaryTerms.doc]
 * Focus:** n/a


 * Definition 3:** Knowledge Management ('KM') comprises a range of practices used by organisations to identify, create, represent, and distribute knowledge.
 * Source:** Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge_management
 * Focus:** General


 * Definition 4:** Knowledge Management [is] the production, mediation, and use of knowledge [to?] the management of intellectual capital” -OECD 2000:70
 * Source:** American National Standards Institute & Global Knowledge Economics Council http://www.compilerpress.atfreeweb.com/Anno%20ASI%20KV.htm
 * Focus:** General


 * Definition 5:** [Knowledge management is] the idea of capturing knowledge gained by individuals and spreading it to others in the organization.
 * Source:** Takeuchi H. Towards a universal management concept of knowledge. In: Nonaka I, Treece DJ., Eds. Managing industrial knowledge. London: Sage Publications; 2001: 315-329.
 * Focus:** n/a

In what sense can we really "manage" knowledge in an organization? Create the organizational conditions that enable and promote the creation, sharing, and use of knowledge; Design organizational processes and practices that collect and make available knowledge for learning and reuse. What are the Benefits of Knowledge Management? Strategically speaking, there are four kinds of benefits from managing knowledge: Create new value through new products or services (innovations); Enhance current value of existing products (knowledge about customers); Reduce/avoid costs/promote reuse (knowledge about processes); Reduce uncertainty/increase speed of response (knowledge about the environment).
 * Definition 6:** What is Knowledge Management? KM is a framework for designing an organization's goals, structures, and processes so that the organization can use what it knows to learn and to create value for its customers and community….A KM framework involves designing and working with the following elements: Categories of organizational knowledge (tacit knowledge, explicit knowledge, cultural knowledge); Knowledge processes (knowledge creation, knowledge sharing, knowledge utilization); Organizational enablers (vision and strategy; roles and skills; policies and processes; tools and platforms)
 * Source:** http://choo.fis.utoronto.ca/KMfaq/
 * Focus:** Organizations


 * Definition 7:** Knowledge management caters to the critical issues of organizational adaptation, survival and competence in the face of increasingly discontinuous environmental change. Essentially, it embodies organizational processes that seek synergistic combination of data and information processing capacity of information technologies, and the creative and formative capacity of human beings.
 * Source:** [|Google books]
 * Focus:** Business Management


 * Definition 8:** Knowledge Management is a new branch of management for achieving breakthrough business performance through the synergy of people, processes, and technology. Its focus is on the management of change, uncertainty, and complexity. It evolved from the need for advancing beyond the failing paradigm of Information Technology Management that accounts for 70%-80% system failures. As 'IT' becomes more of a commodity and endowed with more complex 'potential' capabilities, there is need for re-focusing on strategic execution. As we transition from an era of information scarcity to information glut, there is need for re-focusing on human sense-making processes underlying decisions, choices, and performance. In this new paradigm for increasingly uncertain and complex business environments, dynamically evolving performance outcomes are the key drivers of how 'smart minds' use 'smart technologies' to leverage strategic opportunities and challenges.
 * Source:** http://www.brint.com/km/
 * Focus:** Management of Information


 * Definition 9:** Knowledge Management (KM) is a topic of growing interest to large organizations. It comprises activities focused on the organization acquiring knowledge from many sources, including its own experience and from that of others, and on the effective application of that knowledge to fulfill the mission of the organization.
 * Source:** http://ksi.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/AIKM97/
 * Focus:** Artificial Intelligence


 * Definition 10:** knowledge management (KM), which is the systematic processes by which knowledge needed for an organization to succeed is created, captured, shared and leveraged.
 * Source:**[|Google books]
 * Focus:** Business/Organizations


 * Definition 11:** Knowledge management is the effective management of an organization’s knowledge processes – active gathering, active dissemination and active application of knowledge – to achieve the organization’s goals. An organization can achieve competitive advantage through developing and implementing creative and timely business solutions that reuse applicable knowledge, and that use newly created knowledge (i.e. innovation).
 * Source:** http://www.pmac.ca/education/modules_km.asp
 * Focus:** Purchasing Management


 * Definition 12:** Knowledge Management: The Process responsible for gathering, analysing, storing and sharing knowledge and information within an Organisation. The primary purpose of Knowledge Management is to improve Efficiency by reducing the need to rediscover knowledge. See also: Data-to-Information-to-Knowledge-to-Wisdom, Service Knowledge Management System.
 * Source:** [|http://www.datajar.com.au]
 * Focus:** Organizations


 * Definition 13:** Knowledge management. In the context of generalized knowledge management, traceability of elaborated knowledge from raw text provides both grounding and arguments for decisions. It is thus necessary to link the source documentation to the formal knowledge. In this area, several attempts have been made to provide tools supporting the linking of knowledge sources [1, 2, 3 and 4. D. Skuce, T. Lethbridge, CODE4: a unified system for managing conceptual knowledge, International Journal of Human-Computer Studies 42 (4).4].
 * Source:** [|http://www.sciencedirect.com]
 * Focus:** Data Engineering


 * Definition 13:** A multi-disciplined approach to achieving organisational objectives by making best use of knowledge. It involves the design, review and implementation of both social and technological processes to improve the application of knowledge, in the collective interest of stakeholders
 * Source:** [|http://www.records.nsw.gov.au]
 * Focus:** Record Keeping


 * Definition 14:** The way a company stores, organizes and accesses internal and external information. Narrower terms are: "Organizational Memory" and "Knowledge Transfer." (Process)
 * Source:** http://ccs.mit.edu/21c/iokey.html
 * Focus:** Organizations


 * Definition 15:** Discipline within an organisation that ensures that the intellectual capabilities of an organisation are shared, maintained and institutionalised.
 * Source:** [|http://www.infodiv.unimelb.edu.au]
 * Focus:** Information Services


 * Definition 16:** Knowledge management – The processes an organisation utilises to make full use of the information it holds by correlating separate sources and showing how they can be exploited.
 * Source:** [|http://www.designcouncil.org.uk]
 * Focus:** Information Design


 * Definition 17:** Knowledge Management: The process of systematically and actively managing and leveraging the stores of knowledge in an organisation is called knowledge management. It is the process of transforming information and intellectual assets into enduring value.
 * Source:** http://www.unisa.edu.au/pas/qap/planning/glossary.asp
 * Focus:** Planning and Assurance Services


 * Definition 18:** Managing tacit knowledge (held in an individual's brain in the form of know-how and experience) and explicit knowledge (recorded independently of humans)
 * Source:** http://www.curaconsortium.co.uk/glossary.html
 * Focus:** Information Management


 * Definition 19:** A method for gathering information and making it available to others.
 * Source:** http://www.qualishealth.org/qi/collaboratives/glossary.cfm
 * Focus:** Collaborative Health


 * Definition 20:** The mistaken idea that what is in peoples heads (knowledge) is fundamentally the same stuff as can be documented in words, pictures charts etc (information). This underestimates the unique and essential value-adding role of people, who make things happen by applying skills, experience, reason, intuition, passion, decision to information. You can’t bottle this stuff.
 * Source:** http://www.information-alchemy.co.uk/glossary.htm
 * Focus:** Information Management


 * Definition 21:** Knowledge Management is a set of processes used to effectively use a knowledge system to locate the knowledge required by one or more people to perform their assigned tasks.
 * Source:** http://www.kwbsolutions.com/kbsterms.htm
 * Focus:** Information Management


 * Definition 22:** Knowledge Management is the process of improving the job performance of knowledge workers by eliminating relevant ignorance and inability as quickly and inexpensively as possible AND providing the proper environment, motivation and role models. This simple definition encompasses a very broad range of worthy activities, including: identifying internal or external best practices and adopting them as standards making sure that useful innovations move quickly throughout the organization; useful training efforts; internal communication; and journalism managing, coaching and mentoring. Knowledge Management is simply management -- of people and of processes -- in any organization that is predominantly made up of knowledge workers. Because knowledge resides in people, knowledge management is people management -- and must address the hearts as well as the brains of the workforce.
 * Source:** http://km-experts.com/defs.htm
 * Focus:** Business, Organizations


 * Definition 23:** Knowledge Management (KM) - KM is the distribution, access and retrieval of unstructured information about "human experiences" between interdependent individuals or among members of a workgroup. Knowledge management involves identifying a group of people who have a need to share knowledge, developing technological support that enables knowledge sharing, and creating a process for transferring and disseminating knowledge.
 * Source:** http://services.eliteral.com/glossary/decision-support-systems-glossary.php
 * Focus:** Decision Support Systems


 * Definition 24:** “Knowledge management involves creating, securing, coordinating, combining, retrieving and distributing knowledge” (Lin et al., 2006).
 * Source:** http://www.oise.utoronto.ca
 * Focus:** KT


 * Definition 25:** This is a system that affords control, dissemination, and usage of information. This is often a Net-enabled corporate initiative.
 * Source:** http://www.marketresearchterms.com/k.php
 * Focus:** Market Research


 * Definition 26:** Knowledge management - the process of managing the creation, use, and dissemination of knowledge
 * Source:** http://www.surfcityhost.com/glossary.html
 * Focus:** Internet