What Knowledge Management Should Be (October 14th, 2003)

Knowledge Management has been an interesting buzz-phrase over the last few years, and perhaps for the wrong reasons.

This site - KnowProSE.com got it's name through a few different plays on the words Know and Prose, but more importantly it got it from the phrase 'Knowledge Professional; Software Engineer.'

Which gets us to the very definition of Knowledge Professional, which

in part would derive from Knowledge Management. And Knowledge

Management's definition is something which can bear some scrutiny.

elearnspace blog: Knowledge Management

has great discussion on this - and I have to agree about the

definition. The truth is that the definition, "Succinctly put, KM is

the process through which organizations generate value from their

intellectual and knowledge-based assets. Most often, generating value

from such assets involves sharing them among employees, departments and

even with other companies in an effort to devise best practices." is a business definition.

There's nothing wrong with a business definition, but many business

definitions lack the attachment to the underlying concepts as gsiemens points out.

An enterprise should not be limited to a mind - it should have a soul as well.