How much can we Improve by Better Utilizing the Knowledge we Have
Many corporations invest heavily in knowledge management systems and processes
Many of us have knowledge management systems, communities of practice, and other measures to create, manage, and deliver knowledge. Does anyone do this well? What is the purpose of knowledge? How can we define what is knowledge of benefit? What should be the main key to access knowledge? Who should manage knowledge? Where does our knowledge reside?
All corporations have problems relating knowledge to the business and delivering knowledge solutions where and when needed
Much knowledge still may be intellactual capital known by someone, but not documented as knowledge for use. Formal knowledge may be stored in documents or in a knowledge management system a topic or subject matter. What happens when we need to access knowledge in the business? It is usually up to someone to think about it and go about finding the knowledge. Often it is easier to get on the Internet and start from scratch rather than trying to find or relying on enterprise knowledge. But, sometimes we end up with bad knowledge that has not been validated.
Corporations need to manage the specific knowledge needed for the business and to integrate knowledge access with day-to-day work.
We need a way to isolate and professionally manage the specific knowledge we need for the business. Knowledge management needs some professional capabilities in knowing how human capital improves from knowledge and utilizes knowledge. We need to identify knowledge needed by the business, coordinate new knowledge solution creation, and manage knowledge as human capital. We also need integrate knowledge access into our day-to-day work, so that it is delivered with business data and other information capital to produce results.
Result-performance Management (R-pM) enables the enterprise to create and utilize knowledge as information capital and to manage knowledge as human capital.
Now, there is Result-performance Management (R-pM). R-pM employs one integrated method to organize and manage the business. R-pM defines knowledge as human capital for utilization in human capital development and management. Knowledge is managed as information capital by the result users who must assist knowledge creation and utilize knowledge to produce their results.
Learn the Basics of R-pM from articles under that category, or join the R-pM community to download information on R-pM.
