KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT &

KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT 3.0

Yağmur BÜYÜKEMRE

Can ÇAKIR

Mehmet SUBAŞI

OUTLINE

1.Definition of Data, Information, Knowledge and Wisdom

2.What is Knowledge Management (KM)?

3.Why is KM Necessary?

4.A General Framework for an Effective KM Structure

5.How to Measure the Effectiveness of a KM Structure

6.Evolution and Development of KM

1. Definition and Distinguishing Aspects of KM 3.0

7.Best Practice Examples

1. Definition of Data, Information, Knowledge and Wisdom

Two Types of Knowledge:

TacitUnspoken

Personal

Not quantified

Not verbalized

ExplicitShared

Transferable

Quantified or expressed in some other way

2. What is Knowledge Management

KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT IS ESSENTIALLY ABOUT

TRANSFORMING

TACIT KNOWLEDGE to

EXPLICIT KNOWLEDGE

TACIT EXPLICIT

3. Why Knowledge Management is Necessary

1.To make existing knowledge more widely available within organization

so that learning curve duration goes down and people in different branches of the organization won’t have to discover the same things over and over again

•Innovation; to make it possible to create new valuable knowledge

•Adaptability; agility; better market intelligence from more sources

“It’s common to say that trees come from seeds. But how could a tiny seed create a huge tree? Seeds do not contain the resources needed to grow a tree. These must come from the medium or environment within which the tree grows. But the seed does provide something that is crucial: a place where the whole of the tree starts to form. As resources such as water and nutrients are drawn in, the seed organizes the process that generates growth.”

Peter SENGE

How to Move from Tacit to Explicit:

Tacit ExplicitSOCIALIZATION

EXTERNALIZATION

COMBINATION

INTERNALIZATION

4. A General Framework for an Effective KM Structure

Tacit ExplicitSOCIALIZATION

EXTERNALIZATION

COMBINATION

INTERNALIZATION

FORMATION OF TACIT KNOWLEDGE. “Interaction with the world”. Learning by direct personal experience or through observing experiences of others. Coming across obstacles at workplace. Personal lessons devised from these obstacles.

CONVERSION OF TACIT TO EXPLICIT. Knowledge shared through dialog, (be it e-mails, announcements, presentations, casual conversations, etc.)

DISSEMINATION OF EXPLICIT KNOWLEDGE. Learnings from the earlier phases integrated into company procedures and action plans.

INTEGRATION OF EXPLICIT KNOWLEDGE. Co-workers accepting the new ways of doing business. Turning explicit knowledge into action. Employees more inclined to share new experiences, sharing becomes intuitive.

PHASE

Knowledge Management Mechanisms

Knowledge Management Technologies

SocializationMeetings, telephoneconversations, anddocuments, collaborativecreation of documents

Databases, web-based access todata, data mining, repositories of information, Web portals, best practices and lessons learned

ExternalizationModels, prototypes, bestpractices, lessons learned

Expert systems, chat groups, best practices, and lessons learned databases.

CombinationEmployee rotation acrossdepartments, conferences,brainstorming retreats,cooperative projects, initiation

Video-conferencing, electronic discussion groups, e-mail

InternalizationLearning by doing, on-the-jobtraining, learning byobservation, and face-to-facemeetings

Computer-based communication,AI-based knowledge acquisition,computer-based simulations

Tacit ExplicitSOCIALIZATION

EXTERNALIZATION

COMBINATION

INTERNALIZATION

ASSEMBLE AN ONLINE KNOWLEDGE BASE (and continually improve and expand it)

Set up a help desk to answer questions about it.

Should include data but not just statistics. Related insights and comments should be made available. FOCUS ON CONTEXT/EXPERIENCE NOT

DATA/FIGURES

A GENERAL FRAMEWORK FOR

EFFECTIVE KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT

PREPARE A DIRECTORY OF EXPERTISE (who knows what)ESTABLISH A DIALOG/FORUM SPACE WITHIN THE KNOWLEDGE BASE

LINKS BETWEEN RELATED PIECES OF INFORMATIONREVIEW THE INFO DISPLAYED IN THE KNOWLEDGE BASE IN LIGHT OF NEW EXPERIENCES AND EXPERIMENTS.

BETTER INFORMATION: NOT QUANTITY BUT QUALITYEXTERNAL ACCESS TO CLIENTS, MAKING THE KNOWLEDGE BASE ONE OF THE MAIN TOOLS THROUGH WHICH YOUR ORGANIZATION

INTERACTS WITH THE CLIENTS.

• Possible Barriers to Effective KM:

-An organization culture that is more focused on production/ day-to-day tasks rather than creation of knowledge and innovation.

(“Work smart not hard”)

-Info presented in an uninspiring way (employees can’t understand how to benefit from it)

-Lack of trust; fear of plagiarism. Unwillingness to share knowledge

-Human condition; embarrassment, being afraid to make mistakes Employees should know that their organization shall allow them to experiment even if they make mistakes along the way

-Too much bureaucracy; too time-consuming to share knowledge

5. How to Measure the Effectiveness of an Organization’s KM Structure:

KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT METRICS

AIM: To assess whether employees Want to contribute

CRITERIA: To the knowledge base. Visits per employee

Suggestions per employee (overall participation)

Proportion of implemented suggestions

Time taken to achieve a certain improvement

Availability of information

6. Evolution and Development of Knowledge Management:

KM 1.0 KM 2.0 KM 3.0techno-centric people-centric productivity-centriccommand and control“KM is extra work”

Social“KM is part of my work”

Practical & Individual“KM is helping me do my work”

KM 1: Collecting KM 2: Sharing KM 3: Using

KM 2.0 focused on sharing knowledge using web-enabled and social media tools.

KM 1.0 focused on collecting knowledge "before it walked out the door".

KM 3.0 focus on using existing knowledge to help people get their job done.

In KM 3.0 “most limited resource is no longer information; it has become human attention—the

ability to deal effectively with the growing volume and speed of information”Yogesh Malhotra

An excessive amount of information available online, making it more

difficult to separate the useful information from the noise.

Difference Between KM 2.0 and 3.0

Having access to relevant quality documents is much better than having 1,000 irrelevant useless documents.

What is Knowledge Management 3.0?

Collecting and sharing with others is still important, but what you share with your project team is not necessary the same as you share

with your department, division or your organization.

-There is no point collecting common knowledge if it isn't shared.

- There is no point sharing knowledge if it isn't used.

-Collecting everything will lead to information overload and make it more difficult to search for and find what you need, and may

actually decrease the overall value of the captured knowledge.

-If 30% of your knowledge database is useful to 2% of your

employees, then the other 98% of your people will have to filter through a lot of irrelevant information unnecessary.

-INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY’s MAIN ROLE IN KM 3.0 IS

TAXONOMY: Tools to filter out relevant info.

7. Best Practice Examples:

• Making KM a natural part of the workflow

Call center example:2 agent levels: -Level 1 agents for initial client interactions, less sophisticated problems, -Level 2 agents for problems that the 1st level agents can’t solve.

A customer calls about a software problem.

As Level 1 agent prepares to find a solution, he/she gathers problem description along with info on product model and computer operating environment.

If Level 1 agent can find an existing solution in the knowledgebase, he/she shares with the caller. If not, puts the caller through to a higher level agent.

Expert agent then solves the problem, and makes an entry into the knowledgebase about the nature and solution of the problem. Next time, level 1 agents will have access to the solution of this particular problem.

• Interoperability:

Consulting company example:

A knowledgebase, which covers the company’s success measurement criteria and tips and hints on fixing several different types of management issues, is available within the consulting company’s database.

Instead of functioning in a vacuum, the knowledgebase, thanks to the foresight of the IT department, is able to pull valuable information from a wide selection of existing sources (drawing on the expertise of different departments within the company) in a wide variety of file formats, such as Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Adobe Acrobat and web pages in HTML.

• Open organization culture:

“[Knowledge management] is not just a tool-set it’s a cultural revolution.The major implementation hurdle in a knowledge-sharing system is not thetechnology. It is getting people used to it. Sharing ideas freely is one thingwhen you are at a physical meeting and can see reaction. It is another whenyou are working electronically.”— Gig Griffith, Manager of Business Operations for Technical Services, Novell

In many companies, a knowledge-based support organization requires a cultural shift, a migration to an organization whose people are open and willing to share what they know with others in a more systematic way than what they may be used to.

Continuously creating motivation for sharing:Ongoing recognition of improvements, Periodic feedback on efficiency gains, Rewards on personal contribution (e.g. Reward per 10 entry),View as a marketing strategy to reflect expertise

• Online Forums as a customer support service:

A way of providing rapid customer service, gathering a wide range of information from the customers, and letting customers help each other in solving problems

PROJECT RELATED DOCUMENTS

Photos:http://www.flickr.com/photos/50008418@N03/?saved=1

Videos:http://vimeo.com/user3781333

Links:http://delicious.com/KM3.0

Blog Entries:https://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dg4c9n74_36kxs3sf2

Kick Off Presentation:

https://docs.google.com/present/edit?id=0AYE8CS6210idZGc0YzluNzRfMjdmNXNnMzhjNQ&hl=en

http://www.slideshare.net/KM03

Project Documents:

https://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AYE8CS6210idZGc0YzluNzRfMTZkY3Z6aGJ0cg&hl=en

Presentation:http://www.slideshare.net/KM03

REFERENCES:ARTICLES;

Murray, J.E. (2007) Knowledge Management in Modern Organization. Hershey: Idea Group.

 

Schwartz, D.G. (2006) Encyclopedia of Knowledge Management. Hershey: Idea Group.

 

King, W.R. (2009) Knowledge Management and Organizational Learning (Volume 4). New York: Springer.

 

Dalkir, Kimiz. (2005) Knowledge Management in Theory and Practice. Burlington: Elsevier.

 

Figallo C., Rhine N. (2002) Building the Knowledge Management Networks. New York: Wiley Technology Publishing.

 

Senge P., Scharmer C.O., Jaworski J., Flowers B.S. (2004) Presence. New York: Doubleday.

LINKS;http://www.ppcsoft.com/blog/km-3.asp

http://fredzimny.wordpress.com/2010/02/28/recommended-knowledge-management-3-0-part-iii-the-km-process/ www.aplici.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/Lester_KM_slides.pdf

http://mature-ip.eu/knowledge-management-3.0-learntec-2010

http://www.activecampaign.com/blog/knowledgebuilder-30-beta-coming-soon/

http://zyxo.wordpress.com/2008/12/28/km-10-km-20-km-30/

http://www.metacafe.com/results/knowledge_management/

http://www.slideshare.net/TSystemsMMS/enterprise-20-knowledge-management-getting-started

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge_management

http://blog.jackvinson.com/archives/2009/11/22/is_there_a_next_stage_to_km_10_20.html

http://www.thinkhdi.com/library/deliverfile.aspx?filecontentid=130 http://www.providersedge.com/docs/km_articles/Best_Practices_in_Business_and_Competitive_Intelligence_Volume_I.pdf

http://www.dkms.com/papers/kmfamrev1.pdf http://www.practicallaw.com/4-225-4012 http://www.aplici.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/Lester_KM_slides.pdf

THANK YOU!

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Yağmur BÜYÜKEMRE

Can ÇAKIR

Mehmet SUBAŞI