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Knowledge Management System: What it is & Types

Knowledge management system is an IT system that saves and retrieves knowledge to enhance comprehension, collaboration, and processes.

“Knowledge empowers,” so goes a famous cliché. Sometimes clichés are true. Thanks to agricultural knowledge, humanity advanced from hunting and gathering to civilization. Today, knowledge is one of an organization’s most significant intangible assets. Understandably, businesses would desire to increase the asset’s worth. They can accomplish this by putting money into knowledge management and building a robust knowledge management system.

Any organization needs knowledge and collaboration to succeed. Systematic knowledge transfer and cooperation are made possible by the strong qualities found in knowledge management systems. More information puts your coworkers and clients in a better position to work more intelligently and productively.

This blog will explain knowledge management systems and their various types. We’ll start now.

What is a knowledge management system?

A knowledge management system is any IT system that saves and retrieves knowledge to enhance comprehension, collaboration, and process alignment. Organizations or teams may utilize knowledge management systems, which may also be used to organize your knowledge base for your users or clients.

This description is broad, and for good reasons.

Although the term “knowledge management system” has a wide range of applications, it can be defined as a system that makes it easier for individuals to use knowledge to complete tasks more effectively.

A knowledge management system (KMS) is a tool that enables you to distribute the appropriate knowledge to the right individuals at the appropriate times. The information must be categorized to achieve specific goals as part of knowledge management, and knowledge management systems make this process more effective.

A KMS has numerous advantages for a business, including:

  • External: potential customers, clients, users, and other parties involved.
  • Internal: knowledge managers, content producers, customer service agents, and other teams within your company.

However, perhaps a specific computer folder would be enough. In reality, a KMS does much more than just store information and distribute it to the appropriate parties.

Knowledge management’s benefits

The better a business does, the more effectively and efficiently it shares information with its employees. Some of the benefits of a knowledge management system are:

  • Quicker decision-making
  • Adequate access to knowledge and information
  • Collaboration and idea generation has gotten better.
  • Improved communication throughout your organization
  • Better quality of information and data
  • More safety for intellectual property
  • Optimized training
  • Will the knowledge of mana

Types of a knowledge management system

A knowledge management system will give your users access to the knowledge bases that assist them in solving their problems. Content management systems are used in these situations because knowledge management (KM) is essential for effectively managing content.

The content is created, managed, and distributed using these knowledge management applications for intranets, extranets, or websites. In today’s highly technological world, there are three primary kinds of knowledge management systems:

1. Enterprise-wide systems

A general-purpose system serves the entire organization. It gathers, stores, disseminates and uses digital data and related knowledge. These facts concern organizational learning.

  • The most prominent examples of technology that maintains systems are portals, search engines, collaboration tools, and learning management systems (LMS).
  • These systems include tools, online directories, and other implementation information to find knowledge workers with specialized or experienced experts. They are crucial sources of tacit knowledge (Botha et al.).

The enterprise-wide knowledge management system is responsible for handling or searching for pertinent information, storing data in both structured and unstructured formats, and locating knowledgeable individuals inside your organization.

2. Knowledge Work Systems

What is a knowledge work system? It is a specific management system created for engineers, scientists, and other intelligent people. Such efficient knowledge management applications provide an online directory where users may look for company employees who can provide them with the precise information they require.

  • This knowledge management system helps employees locate accurate information from the existing knowledge database, utilizing best practices for future uses with the aid of standardized expert systems.
  • However, there are some things that people can only discover via personal experience. It is known as tacit knowledge
  • Typically, the system includes
  • Tools for managing knowledge differently to facilitate group cooperation
  • Proper gateway to limit access to information.
  • Understanding of how to execute management
  • Search engine.
  • An interactive tool for classifying data according to taxonomy.

3. Intelligent Techniques

One of the best forms of information management systems, Intelligent Techniques, combines gathering, storing, and maintaining knowledge with clever strategic actions.

  • To execute information capture, knowledge transfer, knowledge storing, and knowledge acquisition, people employ artificial intelligence to transform unstructured data into beneficial knowledge management systems.
  • These knowledge network systems have intelligent agents that handle specific, repeatable activities for users, customers, employees, business processes, or anything linked to knowledge-based software applications.
  • These information management systems concentrate on patterns and relationships using search methods like deep learning, machine learning, and big data techniques.
  • Such information systems assist the company in quickly retrieving the necessary information by sifting through vast data sources.
  • It enables the company to control knowledgeability, maximize its knowledge management efforts, and significantly emphasize additional resources like communities, groups, and webinars.

Conclusion

Knowledge management is not a technology field in and of itself. Instead, it is a process that has been around for decades, before the internet and even computers. The Knowledge Management System is a technology that helps manage knowledge as a whole.

If you know what knowledge management is and how it can be used, you can make a system that works for your business and brand. 

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