Posted by Peter Malling on June 01, 2000 at 21:58:47:

In Reply to: Production planning and KM posted by Maruchi on May 31, 2000 at 19:43:21:

I agree with you that probably the ERP-data are just data og information. In order to turn these data into knowledge, it should be crucial to link them to decision support, innovation and action. How do you do this?

I'm presently working at a somewhat similar problem: We are developing an system to support planning of the local authorities' policies in agricultural planning, especially regarding crops production. The context is Vietnam, and even basic reliable information on the actual data of agricultural production are unavailable. So, the first step is to set up a reliable information management system, with proper data flows etc. This will - hopefully - facilitate the access to correct data. But the interesting part starts, when we these data are compared to the targets (stated in annual plans) for agricultural production, and facilitating exchange of views and ideas between the various departments involved in the planning process on how to tacle the problems that arise, and how to exploit new opportunities. Hence, we're looking at somehow linking the data with e.g. discussion forums and facilitation of best practises.

The basic question must be: how do we enable the decision makers in the production system to learn more about the system. How do we support them reflecting on the system and seeing the "big picture" containing views from all the departments and stakeholders? If we can create some kind of holography in the production organisation, where there is mutual understanding of each others' situation, we start to talk about KM.

Probably, in production planning, a KM system will be link to more traditional MIS than is the case in so-called knowledge intensive organisations. Hence, the challenges is to use the information as input to a creative and co-operative knowledge process i the organisation.

Regards.

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