Knowledge sharing is a widely used term these days. But then this term is
confused with information sharing. Information sharing includes the give and take of
the facts among the people. Knowledge sharing should create a creative
learning process. This is one of the features supported by `Knowledge
Management,' which has been realized by most of
the organizations and enterprises as they have started having some sort of
knowledge management framework.
Various enterprises have started adopting this concept wherein they share
and analyze its knowledge based on
enterprise data and statistics. Storing enterprise information like
company documentation, presentations, material specification, customer and
vendor related data, project data sheets, reports, document collection on the
Enterprise SharePoint constitutes the strategies involved in knowledge management.
It's a continuous process of creating, storing, sharing, applying and
reusing organizational knowledge to enable an organization to achieve its goals
and objectives. This continuous process of learning and graduating eventually
helps in promoting learning and innovation.
According to Webster's Dictionary, knowledge is "the fact or condition
of knowing something with familiarity gained through experience
or association." According to Denning (2000), "knowledge means the ideas
or understandings which a firm possesses that are used to take effective action
to achieve the firm's objective(s). This knowledge is specific to the firm
which created it." Denning further explains
that an understanding of knowledge requires some grasp of its relationship
to information. In the words of Drucker (1993), knowledge is like the sound of
the tree that falls in the forest when no one is there: |
