Knowledge Management --- Challenges

In my last post I talked about the KM - challenges and its various types. Now Lets talk about each challenges in details.

Employee assimilation, development and retention.

Employee assimilation, development and retention are processes that, taken together, may contribute to the success of a knowledge-based organization more than anything else. It's people who develop the knowledge needed to make an organization thrive, and since tacit knowledge is people-based, KM has a vital role to play in ensuring that employees are assimilated smoothly, continue to develop their knowledge throughout their careers, and are retained as their value (in terms of knowledge and expertise) increases.

Various aspects of KM can be used to help a new employee assimilate into the organization. Examples include "lessons learned" knowledge-bases, expert locators, knowledge-exchange lunch sessions, computer-based training and communities of practice..

It's often reported drat this is a unique time for most organizations, with up to four distinct generations working closely together: the ""silent", "baby boomer", "Generation X" and "millennial" generations. KM needs to take into consideration the diversity of attributes associated with these generations. This diversity contributes to the overall culture of an organization, spawning rich cultural knowledge that should be managed by an effective KM program.

Tackling information overload

As computing and connectivity capabilities become increasingly faster and more robust, people often complain that they find themselves overloaded with information. They have reached, they believe, their "exhaustive capacity", where their brain simply can't absorb any more information. Therefore, finding ways to make information meaningful (for example, by reducing unneeded content) and thus increasing productivity and innovation, is a big challenge for KM practitioners.

Too much information may obscure the knowledge that could be gamed if it were put into a context that made it easy to assimilate and use. This creates an environment rich for organizational learning, innovation and creativity.

I am penning down for the day----- and would discuss the other KM challenges in detail.

Signing 0ff,


Happy Reading
Sudhish