INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

Knowledge Management Systems

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Executive Summary

A firm's key success factors sorrounds retrieval, creation and storage with is the work of Knowledge Management Systems. However the introduction about these systems are often misunderstood in organizations regarding their efficiency and efficacy and even if adopted many times paralleled by illison and disillusionment related to its real use. We will use an approach that will consist of Case Studies that will involve the use of KM systems in those organizations and define its extent of success and failure in those organizations. By building up links and finding the loop holes we will be able to recognize the fluctuations and then relate it to general framework. We will also find how different organizations are successful in implementing knowledge management systems and examine by profiling some latest thriving Knowledge management uses and applications.

The study also identifies the evidence of proper use of KM systems in the organization and defines the theoretical framework approaches along with relevant KM system models that could be implied and executed in any existing structure of organization, depending on its nature. Following my study I will then present some critiques and problems that knowledge management system offers and some challenges that organizations have faced in implementing it. I will suggest recommendations for how knowledge management systems can be modified to address these shortcomings.

I conclude my analysis by signifying that reasonableness and competition are critical ingredients of the method to make KM systems work.

Knowledge Management Systems

Introduction

Evaluation of Research

In today's era, we see that organization's most valuable asset is knowledge, we see that the effort to disseminate, capture and store knowledge has been implemented by numerous firms over the years. However, concerns have been raised regarding the potential use of that knowledge and its acquirement and how dependent an organization is over its use. Lack of professional development of storing of that knowledge has lead to collapse of many organizational systems. This knowledge is a collection of experience, expertise and information that workgroups and individuals used during implementation of the task. This set of knowledge is documented and implicitly encoded for organizational processes, systems and services, which is the work of individual mind in producing and storing that information which is known as Knowledge Information Systems (KMS). This study will provide deeper understanding of Knowledge Management Systems in the organizations and how they are being implemented. Detailed strategies regarding the implementation and its processes have been discussed with the results that took place over time. Placed analysis on the success and failures of those processes in the organization and discussed the applications those firms fell short of in strengthening the existing Knowledge Management System.

The placement of knowledge as primary resource is positioned at the center in private knowledge networks that goes with the trends of strategic management writing. To reduce the size of gaps developed in organizations to influence tacit and explicit knowledge. Companies have been initiating the step of running knowledge management plans to support and enhance network-based area and communities in ...