Best Practices in Knowledge Management

Knowledge Is the Path to Profit and Market Power

Best Practices in Knowledge Management (KM) are a collection of processes that govern the creation, dissemination, and utilization of knowledge in the enterprise. It stems from the management of a human-driven process of pursuing goals and creating conditions of success to achieve these goals. Because not all goals are created equal and not all conditions are optimal, there are sound and poor management practices. To be considered as "sound" best management practices in KM, they must possess a set of attributes of effectiveness, equity, sustainability, and equilibrium. Otherwise, it is a set of technical expedients, which are unable to achieve replicable results over time. In the end, the competitiveness of the new corporation is intimately linked to a better approach at the utilization of the knowledge base of the workers. In the 21st century, knowledge management best practices is a form of application of sound management to human resource management and the focus on encouraging, educating, and collaborating with all stakeholders; inside and outside the enterprise.

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Today’s best practice emphasis is to focus on the means of optimizing these holdings, improving the methods of formalization and increasing the use or usability of the available knowledge. From their perspective, the explicit knowledge of organizations is contained in information holdings; IT systems, policies and other informational resources such as customers, employees, suppliers and even stockholders. In a best practices environment KM is materialized in models, schema, analysis and skills, which ensure the replicability of the know-how. Replicability and sustainability of knowledge over time separates the best corporation from the also ran. For more information on knowledge management best practices, call us at 978-663-9212 to discuss issues and opportunities.