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Four types of knowledge management for development

By Research to Action 18/07/2012

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In a recent blog post, entitled KM a dollar a day, Ian Thorpe provides an in interesting overview based on his experiences of four  types of knowledge management (KM) that are relavent to development based organiations. The blog offers a useful insight into the various forms KM can take:

  • Internal knowledge management – giving their staff access to knowledge in order to support them to do their jobs better or to improve organizational performance. This can include various types of tools and approaches – intranets, toolkits, databases of research or lessons learned, communities of practice, knowledge sharing events.
  •  Knowledge dissemination – generating knowledge and making their organizational knowledge as widely accessible, or known to the external world especially development partners. For organizations with a strong base either in research, or in practical on the ground experience a next natural step is to want to make the knowledge you have as widely available, accessible and used as possible.
  • Knowledge brokering – connecting development partners to relevant knowledge and expertise wherever it comes from. Here the role is to help connect development partners with the knowledge they need, whether or not it comes from within your own organization.
  • Building knowledge capacity – building the capacity of development partners to generate, acquire, share and use knowledge effectively. This is perhaps the most challenging but also most fundamental way to put knowledge at the service of development.

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Topics: building capacity, knowledge brokering, knowledge dissemination, knowledge management

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2 Responses to Four types of knowledge management for development

  1. Avatar md_santo says:
    21/02/2013 at 9:43 am

    Thanks for your classification types of KM for development. It is to somewhat greater extend seems very suitable with our KM Time Line of 2008 – 2013+ showed at our corporate intranet that later becoming corporate extranet “Mobee Knowledge CoP”.

    Let’s have a look at http://t.co/pdcT5QMQ – “DIKW-based and Nature Knowledge-based Knowledge Management Time Line (2008 – 2013+)” :

    2008 – 2009 = Internal Knowledge Management

    2009 – 2010 = Knowledge dissemination

    2010 – 2011 = Knowledge brokering

    2011 – 2012+ = Building Knowledge capacity

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