Knowledge Management and Organisational Learning

Contents

Title Page 1 1 Introduction 3 2 Body 3
2.1 What was the outcome of the team activity? Did you achieve your team objective? How? 3
2.2 What knowledge did you use? What worked and what did not work? 4 3 Conclusion / Recommendations 5
3.1 What did you learn? What would you do differently? 5 4 References 7

Introduction

This report discusses some of the reasons for the implementation of knowledge management. It discusses the differences between data, information, and knowledge. The opinion that communication appears to play a key role in the outcome will be discussed and how it relates to effective collaboration. Furthermore, this paper discusses what knowledge management is and the reasons why knowledge management must be realised in todays’ society expanding on the methods used during the Knowledge Management and Organisational Learning module team activity; namely The Prisoner Escape activity. The prisoner escape participation activities used during the exercise will be discussed with the focus on how knowledge was shared to reach a collaborative objective. The paper concludes with the observation that knowledge sharing is the only concept that promotes progress in society.
Body
What was the outcome of the team activity? Did you achieve your team objective? How?

The teams’ objective was to not get caught by the police and we successfully achieved that. As a team we captured, developed, shared and effectively used knowledge; this is knowledge management.
Armistead (1999) explains knowledge management (KM) as is the process of capturing, developing, sharing, and effectively using organisational knowledge. We used this multi-disciplinary approach to achieve our objective by making the best use of knowledge. Within knowledge management, it is conventional to draw up a ladder