Professional Documents
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MANAGING
ORGANISATIONAL
KNOWLEDGE
It’s also important that this knowledge can be easily found by whoever needs
it - whether that’s your customers, employees, or both.
Example No.1 Vacasa delivers on-demand, self-driven customer support with its knowledge
base
Example No. 2 Apptegy uses its internal knowledge base to streamline employee
onboarding processes
Example No. 3 Valant’s knowledge base helps improve internal processes and deliver
valuable content to their customers
CONT.
A knowledge base can contain various types of content such as:
1 User documentation and video walk-throughs to help users better understand how to use
a particular product
2 Training manual for employees to better understand a company's products and services
as well as its internal processes and procedures
An external knowledge base (also known An internal knowledge base, on the other
as a self-service library or customer service hand, is typically utilized as a way to allow
knowledge base) is where customers can go employees to collaborate and share all
to learn anything they’d ever need to know company knowledge and information
about a company’s products or services, internally.
organization, and industry.
BENEFITS OF KNOWLEDGE BASE
External Knowledge Base Internal Knowledge Base
Benefits for Customers
And those benefits have their own far-reaching effects because when
employees are empowered to do their best work, your organization’s
customers and partners benefit as well.
LEARNING ORGANISATION
Peter Senge, renowned management thought leader, faculty member at MIT
Sloan School of Management, and author of The Fifth Discipline: The Art and
Practice of the Learning Organisation, popularised this term.
CONT.
He defined a learning organisation as: “a place where people continually
expand their capacity to create the results they truly desire; new and
expansive patterns of thinking are nurtured; collective aspiration is set
free, and people are continually learning to see the whole (reality)
together.”
CONT.