KNOWLEDGE

MANAGEMENT
STRATEGY
KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT
STRATEGY
• Deals with the general ways knowledge can be managed,
tackles long-term knowledge management strategy.
• Strategic investments represent the company’s
choices/options so as to enable and enhance the processes
(e.g. knowledge sharing) and to offer help define which
knowledge is relevant (i.e. in line with strategic objectives)
and which is not.
STRATEGIC PART OF THE
INTEGRATED KNOWLEDGE MANAGEME
NT MODEL
• Invest: Support of existing structures, competencies,
knowledge retention mechanisms, culture, external
network, and knowledge management systems
• Invest: Implement changes to structures, competencies,
knowledge retention mechanisms, culture, external
network, and knowledge management systems
• Divest: Remove obsolete knowledge
MANAGING ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURES

• Organizational structure is the layout of the company itself

and also to the various bodies that exist within it.
• Organizational structures deal with the way the firm is
organized, and the way people relate to one another.
TYPES OF ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURES

• Formal: The official structure of the organization, which is

normally displayed on an organizational chart, and which
denotes the hierarchical relationships between members of
the firm.