Articles: Knowledge Management

Knowledge Management in Real Life

Knowledge Management in Real Life

The author studied Knowledge Management (KM) back in 2010-2012.  It was fun but it is difficult to apply in real life.  Most of the KM activities are driven by Academic.  The question of how to make it work in real life is catching most people, including the graduates.  For 8-10 years, the author has been looking for ways to apply KM in a sensible manner.  The biggest challenge is how to bridge the gap between academic and real life business, and finally, this is what that is important:

Get Organized - Our Knowledge

Get Organized - Our Knowledge
Knowledge management was a nice terminology, but was mis-leading too. Knowledge is something nobody would say no. Management is also something good and acceptable. But when we put the 2 words together, it becomes something different, something difficult to explain. That makes people falling into a trap. Some people heard about it, some not. After a few years' hard practice in knowledge repository, I try to re-think about it, and re-understand what really is knowledge management. Everything re-started from organizing our knowledge .....

Why I use BYOS to support Knowledge Management

Why I use BYOS to support KM

BYOS is actually a personal research project I started back in 2015 on my own, with the objective of looking for a suitable and low-cost solution to build a KM system to be used for knowledge management in organizations.  It took me quite some time to reach the current solution that I have found, and the result is quite satisfactory.

I looked into different criteria that I consider important to build such a system, from different perspectives of the business needs, user needs and technology considerations.

Job Descriptions of KM Jobs

Job Descriptions of KM Jobs

To a lot of people who studied Knowledge Management including the author, they like it, they practice it, but they don't necessarily know how a formal KM job would look like because we did not learn enough how to put things to practice, and how to make things happens in the real business environment in organizations.  The author found some job descriptions of KM positions on the internet, which serves as good references.