Knowledge engineering
Knowledge Management caters to the critical issues of organizational adaption, survival and competence in face of increasingly discontinuous environmental change.... Essentially, it embodies organizational processes that seek synergistic combination of data and information processing capacity of information technologies, and the creative and innovative capacity of human beings.
Introduction:-
In recent years the term knowledge management has been used to describe the
efforts of organisations to capture, store, and deploy knowledge . Organizations are interested in acquiring knowledge from valued individuals, and
analysing business activities to learn the lessons from successes and failures; such
captured knowledge then needs to be made available throughout the organisation in
a timely fashion. Most knowledge management activities are a combination of
business processes and information technology. As currently practiced,
knowledge management" is a broad-based activity:
1. Document management systems-
Allow workers to find existing documents
relevant to the task-at-hand. Essentially these are multi-source
search/information retrieval systems
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English: It describes in a general way what a KNOW...2.Discussion forum systems-
Promote dissemination of knowledge within
communities of practice. Workers subscribe to forums relevant to their
interests, exchanging questions and answers, lessons learned and announcements.
3.Capability management systems-
Allow an organisation to "know who knows
what." Essentially, they can be thought of as databases of suitably-
structured CVs, and as such are implementable with off-the-shelf database
software.
4. Lessons-learned knowledge base systems-
These are designed to allow workers to tap
into past experience, by storing that experience in the form of structured
cases.
To give a pragmatic approach to the issues and business parctices concerning knowledge managment, the three facets of the knowledge management task(capture, storage, and deployment)are elucidated as follows:-
1.Knowledge capture-
Is performed by a systematic knowledge acquisition process in which a conceptual model of aspects of the company's business domain is used to guide the capture of cases and...