Posted by Meckler on July 21, 1997 at 20:57:18:

In Reply to: Re: The issue of sharing knowledge - A correction posted by Umesh on July 17, 1997 at 06:09:55:

A quick note. Who is to say if the bevergage industry is not knowledge intensive? I imagine there is a very intense focus upon contractual arrangement, logistics, bottling arangements, cultural details etc. It is just not technological knowledge.
A any rate, the benefit of knowledge managment is to categorize the things your company knows, and work with it to:

Disseminate that knowledge as needed
Combine knowledge to feed innovation
Save the cost of re-learning when someone already did it.
Find out the extent to which knowledge in one context/subsidiary is true in another so that practices can be transferred or not.
Rebuild the human resource function by truely cataloging the knowledge and competencies in the organization so that they may be redeployed and recombined as needed.
Allow computers to resort the database continuously and find new relationships as new knowledge is added. Perhaps some old archived knowledge suddenly becomes relevant due to a new aquisition. A KM system would spot this immediately.

These are all implementation ideas. I'm sure there are more.

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