Chapter 6 – The U.S. Navy Knowledge Management System – A Case in Point

 

  • Background
  • The Strategic Level
  • How the Navy’s CIO Convinced Commanders that KM is a War Strategy
  • Gap Analysis: Knowing What We Know and What We Need To Know
  • Operationalizing Knowledge Management:
  • The Rough Plan
  • Structural Changes – CoPs
  • Culture – Not a Question of Sharing but of Security
  • Infrastructure, IT and the Knowledge Base: The Interrelationship
  • Knowledge Management Tools
  • Systems Thinking: The Psychology of Organizational Action or Inaction
  • Performance Measures: The Use of Limits to Focus Attention
  • It Is Not How You Measure But What – Of Limits and Guiding Principles
  • The First Guiding Principle – What to Measure
  • The Second Guiding Principle – Not All Measures are the Same
  • The Third Guiding Principle – The Life Cycle of an Initiative
  • Conclusion