Knowledge process
Definition
Knowledge process is Knowledge process is a process that acts on /or with knowledge, either individual knowledge or organizational knowledge.
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Description
The following basic processes are the focus of KM activities and must be considered from a KP perspective in the organizational context:
- Identification;
- Capture;
- Generation or creation;
- Processing and transformation;
- Storage and retention;
- Search and retrieval;
- Representation;
- Transfer and exchange;
- Maintenance and updating.
These processes may occur in different sequences. A brief definition of each of the basic knowledge processes follows:
Identification: The process of distinguishing which knowledge should be or has been captured, processed, maintained and preserved. It considers how such knowledge will be identified, and how changes over time will be identified.
Capture: The knowledge process that brings data, information, or knowledge into the organizational knowledge base. A process of capturing the knowledge available within an organization and making it available.
Generation or Creation: Template:Generation
Processing and Transformation: Template:Processing
Storage and Retention: Template:Storage
Search and Retrieval: Search is the process of locating explicit knowledge.
Representation: Template:Representation
Transfer and Exchange: Template:Transfer
Maintenance and Updating: The process of keeping knowledge in good condition, complete, current and usable
Source: Comparative Analysis of Methods and Tools for Nuclear Knowledge Preservation
Description
In the literature, authors such as N.T. Pham and F.W. Swierczek [1] describe the mechanisms by which knowledge is accumulated, disseminated and stored in organizations and many refer to these as knowledge processes. There are many different definitions of knowledge processes used in the literature. This research classified the more widely used and accepted definitions into one of five primary knowledge processes, shown below in Figure 1. The primary knowledge processes are defined as [2]:
- Knowledge acquisition and adoption;
- Knowledge generation and validation;
- Knowledge sharing and transfer;
- Knowledge retention and storage; and
- Knowledge utilization and application.
Knowledge processes can be viewed as the means by which organizations build, maintain and apply the tacit and explicit knowledge in all its various forms.
References
[1] PHAM, N.T., SWIERCZEK. F.W., Facilitators of organizational learning in design, The Learning Organization, 13, 2, (2006) 186–201.
