Integrated Knowledge Management (IKM)

"Unless an organization objectively knows how much it knows, it really doesn't know."

Integrated Knowledge Management is a tool to support an organization to manage its knowledge and human capability. The concept is based on professionals having levels of mastery within specific knowledge sets at various stages of their career. The value to the organization is the visibility of strengths and weaknesses so that knowledge can be managed as an organizational process. Not having the ability to ensure human capacity/capability is an expensive business risk. IKM can also be deployed throughout the value stream and modified to meet any knowledge management needs an organization may have. IKM also works well for organizations or functions that are not yet integrated.

The IKM model can be applied to any business need:

• Internal knowledge capability
• Supplier/Partner knowledge capability
• Cross-training
• Development of flexible workforce
• Surgical training development
• Work design
• Value stream knowledge capability assessment

The end result with IKM is an organization which has a process-based knowledge management system, a business that knows what it knows.

 

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