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Selecting a Knowledge Management System (KMS) (Factors to consider…
Selecting a Knowledge Management System (KMS)
What is a KMS?
"KMSs are systematic approaches to managing organizational knowledge through ICT" (Greco, Grimaldi, & Hanandi, 2013, 2).
Examples
Intranets
Document management systems
Content management systems
Web portals
Groupware
What is the best system?
"It is generally accepted that there is no 'one size fits all' solution to the use of technology to support of KM in organizations" (Grimaldi & Rippa, 2011, 48).
"There are no proven reliable metric model[s] and metric database to estimate and report the worth of the knowledge being shared and also the worth of KM Systems (Subramanian, Geetha, Mehata, & Hussain, 2012, 17).
"A single set of tools for KM cannot be mandated because every library and its employees will need to decide for themselves which tools and technologies they find easy to use and useful to their current needs" (Agarwal & Islam, 2014, 324).
First steps
"It is of the utmost importance to delineate all the necessary business processes as the first step by selecting those KMS criteria which could lead to the successful implementation of the system" (Greco, Grimaldi & Hanandi, 2013, 2).
Be clear on the organization's mission and goals.
Identify the problems/issues.
Factors to consider
Quality
Usability
Reliability :
Maintainability
People
Customers
Stakeholders
Employees
Budget
Schedule
Technology
"Technology is needed to support people's needs, and not the other way round" (Agarwal & Islam, 2014, 324).