Learning to learn may be the key to success

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[...] It helps you to apply knowledge, from the business perspective; it's learning that's more important than knowledge,” TECHNOLOGY ISSUES Technology, a key enabler for any KM system, provides the foundation for solution that automates and centralizes the sharing knowledge and a fuelling of the innovation process. KM can be broken down into various stages namely knowledge generation, codification, storage, transfer and application. Information and communication technologies can be used to help in various stages of this knowledge life cycle. As a market matures, point products for each of these functions have started to appeared some functions include knowledge retrieval and access, led by Excalibur and fulcrum technologies, and knowledge indexing and mapping, which is covered by knowledge X and theme media. [...]

[...] In the land of Vedas KM has been effectively practiced through a person to person transfer of knowledge through the oral tradition but when it comes to adding value corporate, it is organizational knowledge and not individual knowledge-that matters. This has led to more formal approach towards managing knowledge, by not just preserving information but analyzing it and presenting it in a access friendly format and company intranets. The key to KM is achieving better business results, which could only come from improved organizational learning. [...]

[...] KM KM application Process solutions Specific ICT tool(s) requirement support required available Knowledge Engaging in Physical meeting Brainstorming Generation/ creative places application absorption thinking, Incentives or Electronic meeting brainstorming innovations support systems Linkages with Videoconferencing educational Discussion boards institutions Case-based reasoning Knowledge Cataloguing Presentations/lecture Electronic classificatio knowledge, s to the teams publishing n preparing expert ISO/CMM standards technology directories and Incentives for Document management user interest writing reports Web search engines profiles Creating a Semantic networks documentation team Help-desk technologies Knowledge Developing libraries Expert systems storage knowledge maps, Database organizational technologies thesaurus and Web-mapping tools dictionary, best Electronic practices/lessons publishing learned, technology frequently asked questions Knowledge capturing history transfer and usage information of available knowledge Tacit to Engaging in presentations by Email tacit informal experts Bulletin board communication, joint ventures Videoconferencing online Brainstorming chat/discussions applications during work Tacit to Creating documentation teams Database explicit organizational reward system for technologies memory using documentation Data warehousing knowledge maps, job rotations Determining models and charts, process documentation, lessons learned Explicit to Sharing User groups Document management explicit knowledge, Team- based Workflow systems coordinating in organizations Group decision group decision support systems -making Groupware/computer-s upported systems Explicit to Searching for Learning rooms Database tacit best practices Libraries technologies and lessons Incentives for Data warehousing learned learning Web search engines Developing Data mining personalized pathways using knowledge metaphors Knowledge Engaging in Team based approach Decision support application knowledge-based Incentives for systems decision/action innovations Simulation software updating, Artificial neural evolving and networks creating new Performance support knowledge systems KM TOOLS. [...]