What is Schools….?
At first when I read this term "Schools" I came to a conclusion by relating it to the past where I have studied, But after doing a bit of research on it, I came to know that Schools of Knowledge Management is different subject; Where Schools are the classification or typology of knowledge management.
Schools of Knowledge Management....?
In 2001, Michael Earl has come up with 7 Schools of knowledge management which was known as "Earl's 7 Schools". The first three schools were considered as "Technocratic" because they are based on management technologies, which support the day to day task of employers.
The First schools in the technocratic group consist of "Systems". The fundamental idea of this school is a computer system capture, store, organize and display knowledge derived from expertise and experience. Gist of this school as Knowledge Repository
The Second school is "Cartographic". It's mainly about mapping the organisational knowledge. The good example here is having a Knowledge Base. Where knowledge sharing and retrieving of knowledge can take place from a central place in an organisation. Gist of this school as Knowledge Map
The Third school is "Engineering". Its origin is business process reengineering. If you give knowledge workers access to knowledge and information, performance and adaptation of management processes are likely to improve Gist of this school as Knowledge Sharing
The Fourth school is labelled as "Economic". This fourth school in Economic group is known as "Commercial". It mainly considers knowledge as an asset. It is also considered as higher level of classification because it consists of protecting internal knowledge and intellectual knowledge to generate revenue income Gist of this school as Knowledge Exploitation
The Fifth school is labelled as "Behavioural". This fifth school in the Behavioural group is known as "Organisational". It's mainly forming a network, sharing or pooling knowledge. This is known as Knowledge Communities.
The Sixth school is "Spatial". The spatial school is more a design for emergence philosophy of knowledge management. In particular, it centres on the use of space to facilitate. Knowledge exchange
The Seventh school is "Strategic". The strategic school sees knowledge management as a dimension of competitive strategy.
Reference
Earl, M. (2001), Journal of Management Information Systems/summer 2001, Vol 18, No 1. Pg. 215-233. Available at (http://staffweb.ncnu.edu.tw/hyshih/download/KM/Paper/KM%20strategy%20taxonomy.pdf, 02/18/09, 2009)
Hello Dilip :)
ReplyDeleteOne thing I would like to mention as you stated in the beginning of your post "I came to a conclusion", did you only read the one article to draw this conclusion. I would like to give you a bit of my experience that reliance on just the one is not enough. There is a need to take into account other perspective angle view of the topic area from other literature scholars to be able to understand the wider context. (bear in mind the bias perception)
[This may be time consuming but it is worth it to develop skills].
There could be a possibility by what you have read and understood, how could each of the school you mentioned be applied to organisations... such as will each of these schools all work for every single organisations out there or only specific ones? If yes or no, what is the rationale reason behind this?..
Good luck. :)