Gathering Knowledge While It's Ripe
- Topics:
- Knowledge Management
- Tags:
- Knowledge,
- Knowledge Harvesting,
- Management,
- Strategy
- Source:
- Knowledge Harvesting
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Overview: Growing its inventory of knowledge assets enables an enterprise to work faster and move on to new things. It has become something of a cliché in business theory, but that makes it no less true: a large portion of any company's assets reside in the heads of its employees, and a key goal of any knowledge management program is to enable the company to make effective use of those assets. Knowledge gathering or harvesting has a place in almost any enterprise KM strategy. It aims to make tacit knowledge explicit and is well suited to eliciting information for a clearly defined purpose. It can be used to capture the knowledge of departing employees, facilitate new product development or jump-start a knowledge management project by rapidly generating a body of specialized information from in-house experts and making it available to colleagues across the company. The ultimate goal of knowledge harvesting is to capture an individual's decision-making process with enough clarity that someone else guided by it could repeat the steps of the process and achieve the same result. Knowledge harvesting is only one tool in the KM box. Further, the article asserts that instead of wasting time on redundant issues, employees can focus on doing new work that adds value to the company.
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Format: PDF | Size: 149KB | Date: Apr 2001 | Pages: 6
