Henry Mintzberg interviewed by Michael Kull
Knowledge Management
The ability to use data and information as well as the skills, intuition, motivation, competency and commitment and ideas of others is what is known as knowledge. In the book Think and Grow Rich, Henry Ford was able to demonstrate, while being brought to trail on the subject of not being “book smart”, that it was best obtained through employing individuals who had knowledge as specialists if he needed them.
Knowledge management uses this principle as a foundation by requiring individuals to contribute those essential attributes to achieve results. Money, flexibility, people, competitive advantage, learning, power and leverage are all examples of knowledge in our current economy. The ability to know how to make decisions based upon data is more important than land, labor or capital and is the most unappreciated asset that often goes unnoticed and neglected.
When assets of an intellectual medium need to be analyzed in order to reveal the critical functions, unique sources or potential clogs that do not allow information to be used properly, knowledge management becomes a necessity. Intellectual assets can sit and become obsolete if they are not put to proper use in an organization, and providing flexibility while increasing value are strong points of this much needed tool.
Organizational learning, BPR (business process re-engineering), and total quality management are initiatives that have become an enhancement of knowledge management, in order to provide an urgent and new scope when sustaining a company’s position of competitiveness. These processes provide just the right give and take for a business to increase productivity and provide solutions for problem solving.
Application of this management is necessary when your customer’s needs are a top priority, and in addition to this already important focus, the ability for a company to operate when overhead and assets that are fixed are at a minimum. The empowerment of employees, shortening of product development time, enhancement of adaptation and flexibility as well as the delivery and innovation of products of a high quality are also vital.
Without providing a necessary focus on the way information is managed at work, by all teams and employees, the availability, creation, its use and quality would be wasted. When information is accumulated while under management, its transformation to documents, technology, books, practices and other important uses becomes an inevitable evolution for that company, helping to reach more customers and provide credibility for that company’s values.
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a fuckings genius this guy. love his book stucture in fives, fucking read the whole book in a day. then i smoke that.
Ask your tutor for help. I am sure they would prefer it if you went to them because you do not understand rather than not attempt it at all.
Sorry it is way above me, but good luck
Someone needs to spend time with the assigned reading homework.
Use your mind. Think. Push those gray cells to communicate and share their thoughts with each other to form new ones. Or choose to be mediocre; the latter course will put you in a very large group.
Data are mixed up.
It is an interesting speciality, sort of a cross between a business degree and a library degree. The upside is that it will prepare you very specifically for a certain niche in an organizational hierarchy. The downside is that it might not give you enough big-picture training to move up that hierarchy. But like most undergraduates degrees what you do with it depends mostly on you, not on the degree.
Good luck.
No, it is not needed. Companies survived for hundreds of years without it.
Try ibm.com for statistics.
There's some really good articles on management at http://management.hammocksurvivalguide.com/
I don't know if it will solve your issues but there's some good stuff there.
Before attempting to address the question of knowledge management, it's probably appropriate to develop some perspective regarding this stuff called knowledge, which there seems to be such a desire to manage, really is. Consider this observation made by Neil Fleming
A collection of data is not information.
A collection of information is not knowledge.
A collection of knowledge is not wisdom.
A collection of wisdom is not truth.
The idea is that information, knowledge, and wisdom are more than simply collections. Rather, the whole represents more than the sum of its parts and has a synergy of its own.
in summary the following associations can reasonably be made:
Information relates to description, definition, or perspective (what, who, when, where).
Knowledge comprises strategy, practice, method, or approach (how).
Wisdom embodies principle, insight, moral, or archetype (why).
The value of Knowledge Management relates directly to the effectiveness with which the managed knowledge enables the members of the organization to deal with today's situations and effectively envision and create their future. Without on-demand access to managed knowledge, every situation is addressed based on what the individual or group brings to the situation with them. With on-demand access to managed knowledge, every situation is addressed with the sum total of everything anyone in the organization has ever learned about a situation of a similar nature. Which approach would you perceive would make a more effective organization?