Knowledge Inventory & Knowledge Flow

The discipline of knowledge management involves helping knowledge flow and understanding the assets and gaps in knowledge. Best practices include documenting and understanding tacit and experiential knowledge, creating specialized solutions, and capturing lessons learned. It is important to adopt and fit in best practices from the existing portfolio of knowledge management approaches. Different contexts may require different techniques, but it is crucial to understand the knowledge that needs to be managed. Taking inventory of existing knowledge management efforts and leveraging them to improve knowledge flow is recommended. Whether using organic or systematic approaches, it is important to build on existing practices and adopt best practices.