Week 1

"Practice without 'Knowledge' is fruitless & Knowledge without 'Practice' is useless."

Knowledge based management system is a computer program that provide information using given data which can used to solve complex problem using various techniques. Data is basically raw facts which can be processed to get an information about anything (Information => Processed Data). Knowledge is actually understanding and experience of any Information.. Through knowledge, we can get wisdom which is used for decision making to find solution of the complex problem.

• Knowledge Management emphases on available knowledge to organize and transfer it across organizations to achieve the goal. It is very important for decision maker to make better and faster decisions.
• Knowledge Management Systems are interaction between latest technologies and social mechanism. It is used to promote Knowledge management (Means to enable drastic improvement in Knowledge management).
• Effective Knowledge Management is to make reusable solutions to use them across the several projects later. It is necessary to reduce dependencies on individuals.

Knowledge management system plays important and active role on building the contents of the systems but many organizations having KM systems have failed to enable sharing the knowledge. The knowledge management system implementations are as follows:

• Knowledge Discovery System
• Knowledge Sharing System
• Knowledge Capture System
• Knowledge Application System

Maheen Asif !