KM MODELS.........

knowledge management is a new era & it has its own importance now a days.

Why the models have evolved?

The models have been selected with a view to providing the widest perspective of KM as a whole.Problems seen in knowledge management is that knowledge is not spread equally in the organization.This is reason why we should follow a model.

Some of models i came across..........

Von krogh & Roos KM models (1995) differentiates b/w individual knowledge & social knowledge.In general human is the source of information.Then this information in our senses r manipulated for gaining knowledge & this knowledge is seen in external view to make it through logical views.

Nonaka & Takeuchi spiral model(SECI):

Knowledge is principally "group knowledge" which is converted , mobilised &transferred from one another.
example:Along the individual(researcher) to the group &then to the organisation from there to ontological dimension.One of the model named SECI was the secret for the success of japanese companies.It deals with socialisation,externalization,combination&internalization.

Socialisation:This is sharing the knowledge face to face through social interaction.Socialisation is amongst the easiest forms of exchange knowledge becuase this is what we do in cafeteria. In this there r drawbacks like these r rarely capture,noted.It remains only in mind.This may not result in transmitting and sharing(davenport & prusak 1998).

To improve brainstorming and knowledge cafes must be arranged frequently.

Externalisation:It gives a visible format for tacit knowledge to explicit knowledge.
example: A knowledge journalist is someone who can interview knowledge individuals in order to
extract ,model&synthesize.
HERE knowledge is tangible and permanent.

Combination:It is explicit to explicit knowledge.The process of recombining discrete pieces of explicit knowledge into new form.No new knowledge is created per see;it is a new combination or representation of existing or already explicit knowledge.
example:In developing a training course or curriculam for a university course,existing,explicit knowledge would be recombined into a form that better lends itself to teaching and transforming this content.

Internalization:
It mainly comes with learning while doing.Once knowledge is internalised it is then used by employees who broaden it,extend it & reframe it with in thier own existing knowledge.


So,finally knowledge ,experiences,best practices,lessons learned &so on go through the conversion process of socialisation,externalization,combination but they cant halt at any stages mentiond but only when knowledge is internalised.

REFERENCES:

1)Von krogh,G.,&Roos,j.,(1998)knowledge in firms:understanding managing,london stage publications,

2)Nonaka,l.,&takeuch,h.(1995).the knowledge creation community.Newyork:oxford university press

3)Davenport,t&prusak,l(1998)working knowledge boston:harvard business school press.

4)knowledge management in theory & practice.