Knowlege Management

“We are drowning in information but starved for knowledge.” – John Naisbitt

“Knowledge is of two kinds: we know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.” – Samuel Johnson

Wisdom is nothing without knowledge and knowledge is nothing without data. To think about knowledge management in the opposite can sometimes make more sense than moving forward. To have a successful business, you need to look at where you want to go and then how to get there. By knowing what you want, you can create a better plan to get there. Using everything that you know and have access to, distribute it and using it is what we call knowledge management. There are many ways to use knowledge management, and using information technology is one way to accomplish it.

With no universal definition for knowledge management, you can use it and define it to make it work for you. Knowledge can be organized into a knowledge base to create a database of information that can be shared. The most common types of organizational structures contain the facilitation of organizational members, using information technology to foster teamwork, and a transmission of knowledge. Much of the information that we call knowledge can be anything from people, money, leverage, learning, and competitive advantage. Having all this knowledge can be overwhelming unless you know how to organize it and make it logical to other members of your company.

Pegasus Communications is a group that focuses on taking your business to the next step. They look at the ever-changing world and help a company make necessary changes to keep them current and organized. They believe that people within an organization hold the key to knowledge and potential. Pegasus breaks organizational learning into five basic disciplines: systems thinking, team learning, shared vision, mental models and personal mastery. Systems thinking looks at parts of a system and how to make them whole. By recognizing the parts...