At New Media Solutions, we regard Knowledge Management (KM) as an audit of "intellectual assets"
that highlights unique sources, critical functions and potential bottlenecks which hinder
knowledge flows to the point of use. KM protects intellectual assets from decay, seeks
opportunities to enhance decisions, services and products through added intelligence,
increasing value and providing flexibility.
For organizations to thrive they must: reduce their cycle times, operate with minimum
fixed assets and overhead (people, inventory and facilities), shorten product development
time, improve customer service, empower employees, innovate and deliver high quality products,
enhance flexibility and adoption, capture information, create knowledge, share and learn.
None of this is possible without a continual focus on the creation, updating, availability,
quality and use of knowledge by all employees and teams, at work and in the marketplace.
At New Media Solutions, we believe that Knowledge Management (KM) is not a technology-based
concept. While technology can support KM, it's not the starting point of a KM program.
We advise our customers to conduct KM decisions based on a thorough review of who (people),
what (knowledge) and why (business objectives)…and then we advise on developing and implementing
the "how" (technology).
Our KM solutions run the gamut from standard database driven, e-mail communications
systems to sophisticated portals with collaboration tools designed specifically to support
community building and identity. Generally, our solutions fall into one or more of the
following categories: knowledge repositories, expertise access tools, e-learning applications,
discussion and chat technologies, synchronous interaction tools, and search and data mining
tools.
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