What Knowledge Manager Should be Knowledgeable About? (The Missing Core Business)

 What Knowledge Manager Should be Knowledgeable About?

(The Missing Core Business)
By
Abdelkarim Darwish, Ph.D

Let us start with a simple question: Why is knowledge important? Is it important because it is pleasant to possess? Or perhaps it is because it is a modern, or advanced, or fashionable concept? Or maybe because it has the ability to add value or create value to individuals, groups and institutions as well as societies?
If this is the ground truth concerning the value of knowledge, so what value should valuable knowledge add or create for Individuals, Teams, Organizations, Countries or/and our Planet? It should generate pleasant feelings, as well as make sound economic impacts; making money –or any other materialistic things such as nice cars, elegant dresses, and beautiful houses. Let us assume that what we want to accomplish these things, so we set them as goals. Therefore, we should value the knowledge which can helps us to accomplish these goals; in this case, the primary goal of knowledge management programs would be supporting people through focusing on creating or acquiring knowledge. This would enable them to introduce services or products which make people (employees, customers-clients) feel good, as well as make profits for profitable institutions. This is what I see as the “missing core business” of most existed knowledge management programs or what knowledge managers considered to be managing in many real cases, because the focus here is on the knowledge not on the value addition or value creation from that knowledge.
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Abdelkarim.A.Darwish@gmail.com
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