Week3

Knowledge Management Systems Life Cycle

CHALLENGES IN BUILDING KM SYSTEMS: 

A knowledge management project has uncovered a number of difficulties in implementing knowledge management systems.

Among these difficulties are the following:

• Changing Organization Culture: Management support / sponsorship demonstrating business value change management implications keeping up with new technologies security.
• Knowledge Evaluation: Manage integrated databases, interoperability, navigational tools of the organization.
• Knowledge Processing: Content in repositories lacks context, making documents difficult to understand.
• Knowledge Implementation: Individual employees are not rewarded for contributing content, and many fear sharing knowledge with others.

Key Differences and Similarities: The systems analyst gathers data and information from the users and the users depend on analysts for the solution. The knowledge developer gathers knowledge from people with known knowledge and the developer depends on them for the solution. Conventional systems development is primarily sequential, whereas KMSLC is incremental and interactive. In case of conventional systems, testing is usually done towards the end of the cycle (after the system has been built), whereas in KMSLC, the evolving system is verified and validated from the beginning of the cycle. Systems development and systems management is much more extensive for conventional information systems than it is for KMSLC. The conventional systems life cycle is usually process-driven and documentation-oriented whereas KMSLC is result-oriented. The conventional systems development does not support tools such as rapid prototyping since it follows a predefined sequence of steps KMSLC can use rapid prototyping incorporating changes on the spot.

Stages of KMS: 

There are eight stages of KMS:

System justification: 

It begins finding the experts that are interested in building the KM system and does these experts require years of experience and knowledge. The system should be complete quickly and using the latest technologies. Strategies should be made before building a Km system. The development team should keep the vision, resource, culture in mind while working on it.

Forming team: 

The team should be formed according to the complexity of project and ability and motivation of team members and their core competencies.

Knowledge Capturing: 

Knowledge capturing is an important stage of the km system. Accessing the value of information from repositories. Rending knowledge from organizational experts.

Design the km blue print: 

In designing the km blue print address several issues in deciding the system component, developing the software architecture.

Testing the KM system: 

Verification determines if the system was built right, while validation ensures that the correct system was built to meet the user’s expectations.

Implement the KM system: 

Before implementing the Km system quality assurance is very important factor .conversation the system in real life operation includes data and file conversion.

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