Chapter 11: Managing Knowledge and AI Flashcards
Knowledge Management System
Knowledge is useful and actionable when shared
- information economy: wealth and prosperity comes from distribution of info and knowledge
- knowledge projects can produce ROI
Knowledge is an Asset
- data is useful for transaction
needs processed into categories of understanding to be info - info needs expanded with additional research to discover patterns, rules, and contexts to turn into knowledge
- Wisdom: applying knowledge to solve problems
- knowledge based core competencies (2/3 things org does best) are key org assets
Data
simple observations
- easily captured and structure
Information
Data endowed with Relevance and purpose
- unit analysis, consensus meaning
Knowledge
valuable info from human mind
- hard to transfer or capture
(knowledge is knowing how to do something vs. info is what to do)
Traits of Knowledge
- independent and collective attribute of firm
- knowing how to do things efficiently in ways other cannot duplicate is prime source for profit and competitive advantage
- stored variety of places (has location)
- “sticky’ hard to move
Situational Knowledge
Conditional (when to apply)
Contextual (circumstances)
Tacit Knowledge
UNDOCUMENTED
- hard to formalize and communicate
- subjective
- not recorded
- experiences, beliefs, skills
Explicit Knowledge
- easily transferrable, collected and organized
- objective, logical, technical
Knowledge Attributes
total knowledge increases, half-life decreases
- can be in more than 1 place at a time
- permanent or time sensitive
- used without being consumed\
- selling doesn’t decrease supply
once disseminated, can’t recall
Organizational Learning
knowledge drive of new behavior
- process in which organizations learn
-gain experience through data collection, trial and error
- just behavior to reflect experiences
Knowledge Value
- value is difficult to measure
- value extracted when knowledge is used
- sharing increases value of knowledge
- value increases with abundance
- buyer can’t judge in advance
- can be added by filtering knowledge
- value is not well related to acquisition cost
Knowledge Management Value Chain
business processes developed in org to create, store, transfer, and apply knowledge
Value Chain: activities that increase efficiency, add value
- each step adds value to info and raw data as they are transformed into knowledge (acquisition, storage, dissemination, application)
Knowledge Acquisition
process depends on type of knowledge
- discovering patterns via machine learning or
- business analytics processing data
Knowledge Dissemination
- portals, email, IM, social, search engines
- shared calendars, documentation storage
- training programs, shared management experiences communicated through culture
Knowledge Applicaiton
- knowledge that is not shared nor applied to solve problems add 0 business value
- ROI: return on investment, drives decision making
- knowledge must be applied or built in system
- helps maintain internal business processes, relationships, stakeholders
- management drives process by utilizing new knowledge to create new stuff
Collaboration, Communities of Practice (COPS) + office environments
COPS: informal social networks within and outside firm, similar work related activities and interest
- depend greatly on software environment that enable collaboration and communication
- easier to reuse knowledge: document repositories
- encourage discussion and contribution
- providing industry contacts - access to already established methods and tools
- “spawing around” for new ideas and techniques
Types of Knowledge Management Systems
- Enterprise Wide KMS
- Knowledge Worker system (KWS)
- intelligent Techniques
Enterprise Wide KMS
general purpose firm-wide efforts to collect, store, distribute, and apply knowledge
Knowledge Worker system (KWS)
specialized systems built for enginers and scientists (those charged with discovering and creating new knowledge)
Intelligent Techniques
diverse techniquest used for various goals: discover knowledge, distilling it, and discovering optimal solutions
Intelligent Techniques (AI)
involves attempt to build comp sys. that think/act like humans
- take data input from environment, process inputs, generate outputs