All entries for Saturday 05 May 2012
May 05, 2012
Learning Organisations & Knowledge Management
With regard to our mini – project, I was wondering about which comes first in application, is it the principles of learning organisations or knowledge management?
The whole point of knowledge management is to make sure that the knowledge present in an organisation is applied productively for the benefit of that organisation, and as a result this what makes a learning organisation, but managing knowledge effectively within organisations requires a culture where organisations could identify, capture and store critical knowledge, and this could be done by adopting the five disciplines of Senge’s organisational learning.
So is it knowledge management that drives an organisations towards a learning organisation, or is it the characteristics that organisational learning have that makes an effective knowledge management system within an organisation.
Definitely, the two terms overlap, and organisations are in such need for both of them, and from my point of view, I think that those two are applied in parallel, and each one is the end result for the other.