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Change Management

Defining and instilling new values, attitudes, norms, and behaviors within an organization that support new ways of working, enabled by knowledge.

Collaboration

Employees working together in a joint intellectual effort. This is usually achieved by using tools that allows the employees to share information dynamically between one another to boost performance and productivity.

Communities of Practice

The process of social learning that occurs in a community in which people who have a common interest in some subject or problem, collaborate over an extended period to share ideas, find solutions, and build innovations. To build a knowledge sharing culture communities of practice play an important part in providing the momentum to learn and improve performance.

Content

The process of creating, editing, storing, organizing and publishing content on the web. In business, content should be designed for rapid assimilation and use to create value. Knowledge sharing requires that content is treated as a valuable asset that grows in value over time. When content is dated it needs to be deleted or archived.

Information Architecture

An Information Architecture provides a framework for organizing, navigating to, and accessing information on the web; a logical information architecture increases the "findability" of content.

Knowledge

Knowledge is the internalization of information, data, and experience. Business or operational knowledge is a key asset in companies. Tacit Knowledge is the personal knowledge resident within the mind, behavior and perceptions of individual. Explicit knowledge is expressed in documents and presentations. Both are important to address in a knowledge management strategy and both can be leveraged to improve performance of a company.

Learning

The process of acquiring knowledge, attitudes, or skills from study, instruction, or experience. Managing skills acquisition and personal growth of employees allows a company to grow capabilities faster than the competition.

Metrics

Measures used to indicate progress or achievement of an objective. Metrics are used to gauge the value of knowledge management initiatives.

People

Individuals employed by the organization whose performance must be continually improved to compete effectively. Improving performance of people in their jobs is the primary goal of knowledge management.

Portals

Portals provide personalization, single sign-on, and content aggregation from different sources and hosts the presentation layer of information systems. Portals provide the necessary context for finding information on an intranet.

Process

A collection of logically related steps that when combined in a flow, complete a business function. A business process can be enabled with knowledge to improve process performance.

Taxonomy

Taxonomy is a structured collection of terms, generally hierarchical, that is used for both classification and navigation. Building precise and logical taxonomies improves the "findability" of content.

Technology

Includes both hardware and software. Today information technology is the underlying driver of an organization's profitability and productivity. Technologies that enable knowledge sharing can take work out of knowledge management processes making it easier for professionals to adopt the solutions.

Thought Leadership Thought leadership is an increasingly important driver of business success. It's aim is to engage customers in a conversation about a company's innovative ideas and to encourage new sales. It is frequently used in professional service firms to laugh new service offerings.

Social Media

Social Media is the umbrella term that defines the various activities that integrate technology, social interaction, and integrations of words pictures, videos and audio. This interaction and the manner in which information is presented, depends on the sites objectives and how a community chooses to "build" shared meaning among its members.

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