Daily Archives: March 4, 2003

Another posting on Brint board

My personal humble opinion is that KM is expanding in scope and also spawning off whole systems of sub disciplines, which link with other branches of thought.

1. Expanding KM: KM at a strategic level is expanding, linking with strategic thought and focussing on how knowledge can enhance business breakthroughs.

2. Focussed KM:
(a) IT: The KM tools market is undergoing a consolidation and the hype that has been defused is seeing tools being shaken to separate the actual KM tools from Document Management tools.

(B) Intangible Assets: Looking at the Knowledge Assets with a financial lens.

(C) Human Processes: As organizations understand the importance of learning and knowledge creation KM will move to top management and HR, and I don’t think they are ready to handle the scenarios.

My posts on the Brint KM Board:

As a CEO of a knowledge corporation said “all my assets walk out of my door” and he doesn’t know whether they will come back the next morning!!

How do we protect these knowledge assets? By trusting and encouraging the employees we have, and knowing that ideas and knowledge will always be permeable and travel no matter how an organization tries to water-tight them