To get an understanding about something it is important to get the understanding of the definition of that particular field, item or entity etc.
My today’s topic is to get the understanding of knowledge management definition and to see if any of the existing definition fits in all the scenarios and if it is not than what will be the one or if any of the existing lacks something in it then how it can be generic so that it describes universally.
Knowledge management is the field where nothing is hard lined and intellectuals have different opinions. As Maier, A. (2007) said "Knowledge Management is still a young field with multidisciplinary roots. thus, it is not surprising that there seems to be almost as many definitions to the term than there are approaches or "schools" of authors contributing to the field" [1]. According to the World Wide Web definitions of knowledge management [2] it’s the process of Knowledge Creation, Storage and Dissemination in an organisation.
More or less all of the definitions talks about the knowledge management on an organisation level only and there is no universal definition which can fit every where [3].
In my view each and every entity of this universe has some characteristics which have already defined and some has yet to be explored and defined. Here I would like to categorise this in two parts, first one is in which the characteristics has already defined. In this part these defined characteristics may need to be refined and in second part I consider those which have yet to be defined. So refining the existing characteristics or defining those which has yet to be explored is the knowledge creation.
Web definitions of knowledge management process missing one essential part in between knowledge creation and storage. These definitions don’t describe anything that who will verify that the created knowledge is really the creation of the knowledge so I would like to give a definition to the knowledge management which will be as follow
“Knowledge Management is the process of Knowledge Creation or refining the existing knowledge, Filtration, Storage and Dissemination of any single entity of this universe.”
References:
My today’s topic is to get the understanding of knowledge management definition and to see if any of the existing definition fits in all the scenarios and if it is not than what will be the one or if any of the existing lacks something in it then how it can be generic so that it describes universally.
Knowledge management is the field where nothing is hard lined and intellectuals have different opinions. As Maier, A. (2007) said "Knowledge Management is still a young field with multidisciplinary roots. thus, it is not surprising that there seems to be almost as many definitions to the term than there are approaches or "schools" of authors contributing to the field" [1]. According to the World Wide Web definitions of knowledge management [2] it’s the process of Knowledge Creation, Storage and Dissemination in an organisation.
More or less all of the definitions talks about the knowledge management on an organisation level only and there is no universal definition which can fit every where [3].
In my view each and every entity of this universe has some characteristics which have already defined and some has yet to be explored and defined. Here I would like to categorise this in two parts, first one is in which the characteristics has already defined. In this part these defined characteristics may need to be refined and in second part I consider those which have yet to be defined. So refining the existing characteristics or defining those which has yet to be explored is the knowledge creation.
Web definitions of knowledge management process missing one essential part in between knowledge creation and storage. These definitions don’t describe anything that who will verify that the created knowledge is really the creation of the knowledge so I would like to give a definition to the knowledge management which will be as follow
“Knowledge Management is the process of Knowledge Creation or refining the existing knowledge, Filtration, Storage and Dissemination of any single entity of this universe.”
References:
[1] Maier, R. 2007, Knowledge Management Systems: Information and communication technologies for Knowledge Mangement, Third Edition, spring publisher, Retrieved March 02, 2008 from http://books.google.co.uk/books?hl=en&lr=&id=r5pAHIN1ChwC&oi=fnd&pg=PP7&dq=universal+definition+of+knowledge+management&ots=yz920zJVl6&sig=ivpAwfc7RAFAbViPZ4vZ4tRX3Cs#PPA52,M1
[2] Definitions of Knowledge Management on the Web: Retrieved February 06, 2008, from http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&defl=en&q=define:Knowledge+Management&sa=X&oi=glossary_definition&ct=title
[3] Remenyi, D. November 2001, Second European Conference on Knowledge Management, Academic Conferences Limited publisher, Retrieved March 02, 2008 from http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=MEDSnYpaKr0C&pg=PA631&lpg=PA631&dq=is+there+a+universal+definition+of+knowledge+management&source=web&ots=B3aWyyJY3a&sig=cy8cH2soK5_ltMJD-NSKYjuyMR0&hl=en#PPA631,M1
Trace back:
A reply to Prof. Mark Woodman comments can be found from the following link
http://waseemknowledgemanagement.blogspot.com/2008/02/knowledge-management-definition-reply.html
2 comments:
I can see why you believe a definition will help understanding, the acquisition of new knowledge. However a definition tends to constrain and constraining to early can be dangerous.
You settle on a definition that deals with "any single entity of this universe". That runs the danger of having too little by way of constraint. The universe is a very broad context that does not necessarily have an effect on an organization. Why not make a particular organisation or a project/programme in the organisation be the context.
On the other hand, you are constraining too much by concentrating on a single "entity", a generic term you have not defined.
I think we should define the knowledge management in the organisational context. Waseem tries to define KM as a generic term, and ends up with sorry to say but "Philosophy". Entity, Universe, etc. are very high level words, and rather you should define KM in context of organisations. What does it means to the organisation? should be the centre point of the definition.
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