Posted by Vidur Chhabra on April 09, 2002 at 04:57:15:

I have read through quite a bit of literature on knowledge management over the past few months. Just trying to get a grip on this so-called “Management tool of all tools”, something without which no organization in the future can retain a competitive edge.
Though all this sounds really good on paper, there seems to be needless hype currently on a subject which mankind has been well aware of and practicing since the days of Adam. There is really nothing tangible I see, relating to create a true and complete knowledge management system. We just have a bunch of methodologies, written and re written, someone waiting to win a Nobel prize, and heck who knows someone might just win the prize.
Yes, any field to reach that stage of maturity goes through a certain level of hype, then it gets a kick through a spate of failures, and if it recovers from it, it might just revolutionize the way we life.
I really don’t see knowledge management succeeding. However hard one tries, it is really impossible to capture tacit knowledge, and without that happening, knowledge management would be just confined to databases and technology, capturing all the explicit knowledge, but loosing its true essence of capturing critical information residing in our heads.
People are trying to create all sorts of methodologies to capture tacit knowledge; realistically can anyone tell me if anyone will succeed in doing that?
It would be nice to see responses to my argument.

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Follow Ups:

• Re: KM is it just a waste of time? Dienices 01:50:18 04/23/02 (0)
• KM is valuable is you understand what knowledge is.. Mezei 12:25:07 04/10/02 (0)
• Re: KM is it just a waste of time? Abhay 15:18:16 04/09/02 (0)
• Knowledge Capture Vs Knowledge Management Akhil Shahani 07:10:03 04/09/02 (6)
  • Re: Knowledge Capture Vs Knowledge Management TO : ANYBODY THERE 03:04:39 06/15/02 (0)
  • Re: Knowledge Capture Vs Knowledge Management reply to Akhil Abhay 15:34:33 04/09/02 (1)
    • Re: Knowledge Capture Vs Knowledge Management reply to Akhil John Tieso 08:55:15 04/10/02 (0)
  • Re: Knowledge Capture Vs Knowledge Management Paul Arveson 09:55:07 04/09/02 (2)
    • Re: KM Help to : Anybody there 02:54:50 06/15/02 (0)
    • Re: Knowledge Capture Vs Knowledge Management Caroline Stocker 21:36:57 04/09/02 (0)
• Re: KM is it just a waste of time? Chris 05:49:50 04/09/02 (0)

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