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WHY KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT HAS SO MANY RIVALRIES WITHIN?
• Posted by Md Santo on May 23, 2010 at 9:33am

In recent years, regarding the phenomenon of convergence between web as platform with others platform mainly derived from IT/ICT, we observe many types of Management (tool) type being exposed as “KM’s rivalries” or “KM competitors” Why it could happened? Let’s take a look for examples : Internal Communication vs KM, Social Media vs KM, Business Intelligence vs KM, Balanced Score Card vs KM, Information Management vs KM, Business Process Reengineering vs KM, Content Management vs KM, Document Management vs KM etc

The answer is because people treat KM as an ordinary management technique with similar level as other management tool types. But, considering the following comprehensive special understanding on KM, the situation will be entirely different. The following are the answers :

First, by contextually-driven KM definition, Knowledge Management (KM) essentially is not management technique but behaving more as an access mechanisms that can be used across any management tool type such as Total Quality Management, Learning Organization, Benchmarking, Process Classification Framework, Business Process Reengineering, Balanced Scorecard, Business Intelligence including Social Media platforms etc. wherein each with their specific functions to be orchestrated under KM’s consciousness. So, here we put KM in incredibly broad meaning as subject with higher level than any other management tool type which is treated only as object (http://www.scribd.com/doc/28696847/How-to-re-postulating-the-paradi... ) From eastern concept, Knowledge with broad meaning also known as Noor or “Light” (Note 1 : The basic paradigm supported contextually-driven KM definition is our DI – KW model - http://delicious.com/mobeeknowledge/di-kwmodel )

Second, through content-driven KM definition, we described KM as “Human Enlightenment Process-based KM Definition” through the linkhttp://mobeeknowledge.ning.com/forum/topics/human-enlightment-staging andhttp://www.knowledge-management-online.com/human-enlightment-proces... in which KM defined as follow :
1. KM is the staging of Human Enlightenment Process
2. The process is to managing the transformation of Information content as object into Knowledge and beyond as subject (KW concept noted as narrow meaning)
3. The goals are towards Learning, Growth and Innovation
4. The management should leveraged by KM Standards, KM Tools and KM Process Frameworks

I hope through comprehensive understanding on KM above mentioned, it is no longer need again to put KM in rivalry position against many kinds of management tool types (Note 2 : To get more comprehensive insight should you visit Mobee Knowledge Base explaining our Human System Biology-based KM - http://delicious.com/mobeeknowledge/humansystembiology )