Successes and Failures of Knowledge Management [Paperback]

Successes and Failures of Knowledge Management highlights examples from across multiple industries, demonstrating where the practice has been implemented well-and not so well-so others can learn from these cases during their knowledge management journey.

Knowledge management deals with how best to leverage knowledge both internally and externally in organizations to improve decision-making and facilitate knowledge capture and sharing. It is a critical part of an organization's fabric, and can be used to increase innovation, improve organizational internal and external effectiveness, build the institutional memory, and enhance organizational agility.

Starting by establishing KM processes, measures, and metrics, the book highlights ways to be successful in knowledge management institutionalization through learning from sample mistakes and successes. Whether an organization is already implementing KM or has been reluctant to do so, the ideas presented will stimulate the application of knowledge management as part of a human capital strategy in any organization.

• Provides keen insights for knowledge management practitioners and educators
• Conveys KM lessons learned through both successes and failures
• Includes straightforward, jargon-free case studies and research developed by the leading KM researchers and practitioners across industries

1. Parameters of knowledge management success 2. Why are companies still struggling to implement knowledge management? Answers from 34 experts in the field 3. REAL knowledge and the James Webb Space Telescope: success and failure coexisting in NASA 4. Processes: Still the poor relation in the knowledge management family? 5. KM successes and?failures: some personal reflections on?major challenges 6. Lessons learned from nearly 200 cases of KM journeys by Honlã0