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What is
Knowledge Management?
Knowledge
Management (KM) is the explicit and systematic
management of vital knowledge and its associated processes
of creating, gathering, organizing, use and exploitation. It
requires turning personal knowledge into institutional
knowledge that can be widely shared throughout the
organization and appropriately applied. KM would then mean
sharing "the right information, in the the right place, in
the right format, at the right time."
Nowadays, organizations everywhere
have realized that their most valuable asset is the
knowledge embedded in the staff skills including the
knowledge and experiences they generate from their
interactions and in conducting studies. This knowledge has
largely remained uncollected, unorganized and mostly
untapped. In addition, technology such as the internet is
also flooding us with more information than we can handle.
Hence, knowledge
management, particularly in the government operation, such
as in NEDA, which is an organization with vast information
and knowledge available among its staff and in the
various reports and documents that it prepares and/or
compiles, hopes to address the fragmented and disorganized
information available in the bureaucracy, leverage those
information and share/transfer them to those who could use
them for well-informed decision-making on socio-economic
issues and other matters. |