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Knowledge Management and Business Needs
  •               Nermien Al-Ali
  •               Research Professor
  •               Franklin Pierce Law Center



  • Professional Development Meeting - Boston Chap. Special Libraries Association 2002





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  • What is KM?
  • KM and intellectual capital management – KM: the first stage in a comprehensive intellectual capital management model
  • What is organizational knowledge?
  • KM and IP
  • KM Main processes
  • KM Implementation Framework
  • KM strategies & IT


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Knowledge Management
  • Goal – to manage the knowledge resources of an organization to create value


  • Important – to distinguish between knowledge resources and other forms of intellectual capital



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KM and Intellectual Capital Management

  • All IC is knowledge based in the abstract sense but each form plays different role in business process
  • Intellectual capital includes all business intellectual resources & assets including
    • skills, brainpower & competence (human capital),
    • networks with partners & relations with customers (customer capital),
    • business processes, databases, manuals (structural capital)

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KM and ICM
  • The Comprehensive intellectual capital management model – classification:


    • Knowledge resources = raw resources that support production, other processes, and decision making – hence create value


    • Innovation resources = processes, networks, and relations used to extract value from knowledge resources


    • Intellectual properties = rights to protect a competitive territory used to maximize value capitalized from commercializing IC

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CICM Model
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KM and Patents
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KM and Trademarks
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KM and Copyrights
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Organizational Knowledge
  • Sources
    • Human: brainpower, skills, experience
    • Data: information, patterns, insights
    • Organization: routines, practices, culture

  • Knowledge Relationships
  • Knowledge and information
  • Individual/organizational: Tacit/explicit
  • Knowledge is to know – inseparable from the knower


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What is Knowledge
  • Knowledge and Information
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What is Knowledge
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What is Knowledge
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Main KM Processes
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KM Framework
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KM Framework
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KM Strategies
  • Codification – codify explicit knowledge resources


  • Personalization – externalize & apply tacit knowledge


  • Best practices – use & reuse knowledge efficiently
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KM Strategies: Codification
  • Strategy - emphasis on codifying explicit resources where business performance depends on effectively mining the data for insight to guide innovation and decision making


  • IT emphasis – knowledge centers managed by subject-matter experts – provide knowledge required for KW to perform their job – learning
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  • Enablers – retrieval, search, visualization tools
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KM Strategies: Codification - IT
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KM Strategies: Codification
DaimlerChrysler
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KM Strategies: Codification - Tools
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KM Strategies: Personalization
  • Strategy - emphasis on externalization & application of tacit knowledge where business performance depends on innovating new solutions to tackle unique problems


  • IT emphasis – expert directories, communication


  • Enablers – strong K-sharing culture, CoPs creation & support tools
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KM Strategies: Personalization - IT
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KM Strategies: Personalization - Siemens
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KM Strategies: Best Practices
  • Strategy- emphasis on efficient use of organizational knowledge to support key business processes where business performance depends on perfection & replication of work practices


  • IT emphasis – best practices database, reporting of results to central unit


  • Enablers – Best practices identification, replication & support tools




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KM Strategies: Best Practices - IT
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KM Strategies: Best Practices - Ford
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Dow KM Strategy
  • IAM teams function like CoPs with one strategic focus – developing and commercializing a part of the patent portfolio


  • KM supports key business processes by addressing knowledge needs


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Dow KM Strategy
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Choose KM Strategy
  • Devise KM strategy before:
    • Embarking on KM program
    • Designing/changing IT architecture
    • Building Knowledge Base
    • Acquiring s/ware or tools

  • KM Strategy should:
    • Address business knowledge needs
    • Support key business processes
    • Adopt one predominant business focus – i.e. mine data, create new knowledge, use existing knowledge efficiently
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Choose KM Strategy