Knowledge management (KM) comprises a range of strategies and practices used in an organization to identify, create, represent, distribute, and enable adoption of insights and experiences. Such insights and experiences comprise knowledge, either embodied in individuals or embedded in organizational processes or practice
The above is taken form Wikipedia and says very clearly what KM is all about.
I have been wondering recently what has replaced KM as the burning management issue.Clearly KM was such a powerful tool that it can’t have stopped being effective.Can It?It was the buzz word only a few years ago and changed the way companies were structured and the way that they operated.
Was there a sudden fall from grace that led to all KM departments being disbanded? Have the principles remained but the name changed?
It is a concern that Management fads come and go and absorb so much time that the drive of an organisation is turned inwards.Outward facing progress always is in terms of internal reorganisation. Should that be the case or should companies keep the pedal to the metal and keep going?
Losing sight of where the company is going is a real danger if valuable time is spenttinkering with the engine rather than driving. Is there a metric out there that maps the lost energy devoted to system management V market performance?
So what is the new KM?
Anybody care to venture an opinion?
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