Knowledge process
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Definition
Knowledge process is Knowledge process is a process that acts on /or with knowledge, either individual knowledge or organizational knowledge.
Summary
knowledge processes includes knowledge generation, validation, maintenance and integration activities with sub processes like acquiring, transforming, developing, disseminating, using, sharing and preserving knowledge as a way to meet specified internal demand that can ultimately improve organizational learning. In this regard, knowledge processes helps an organization to gain insight and understanding from best practices.
Description
There are many different definitions of knowledge processes used in the literature. However for Nuclear knowledge management purposes we describe more widely used and accepted definitions into four primary knowledge processes by which knowledge is generated, validated, maintained and integrated in organizations.
Four category model
Creation Import Transfer Sharing Codification
Five category model
Knowledge generation
- Demand formulation (Internal and external)
- Capturing
- Acquisition
- Identification
- Codification
- Creation
- Generation
- Harvesting
- Retrieval
- Learning (individual and group)
Knowledge validation
Knowledge maintenance
Knowledge integration
Six category model
In Fig 2, an alternative categorization of the knowledge processes is presented.
