Posted by Dilip Bhatt on May 05, 2000 at 08:04:22:

In Reply to: Re: implementation posted by Martyn R Jones on May 04, 2000 at 18:13:25:

Martyn
I have no problems for you using the fingerprint quote. Would love to read your paper when complete though, it sounds very interesting.

I also equate KM implementation to an eating experience. Bear with me and hear this out.

Organisations need Knowledge to survive just as people need food. Take that a step further, before you go shopping you will have certain tastes and/or desires that you want fulfilled and you will plan your shopping list accordingly. Which can equate to organisation visions and strategies and associated plans. Then you go to a KM mart. All the components are there but you pick and choose according to your needs and tastes or even life style. You take these home and prepare (plan and prioritise). You will cook the food according to your personal taste, in such a way that will bring you the greatest fulfilment. Similar to an organisation implementing KM, it will be unique to the organisation, even though you started with the same components as anyone else from the KM mart. The preparation and the results is what makes it unique. Someone else may copy your shopping list but will no be able to replicate the ‘cooking’. Which may come down to simple things like seasoning the food, some like a lil more salt then others.

You can of course choose the wrong food, if you have a sweet tooth, you may buy noting but say cookies, that maybe be great but will not do you any good in the long term. The diet has to balanced just as any KM implementation, hence I always go on about having a holistic approach and also to take bite size chunks. You can’t eat the same food day in day out either, you have to change depended on the situations. KM is not static but changes and evolves dependent the companies situation, needs and health.

As you can see I have a crazy way of equating business concepts to real life. This just another way of getting the KM concept across, there are many out there.

Good luck and take care my friend.

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