KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT MODELS

A product requires good modelling at initial stage inorder to increase its quality production. For example,in the software industry,before a new software comes out,the software processionals those who are working on it lay the requirements of the project and coding and the platform on which the software is going to build.So, if they follow a step wise manner which they have written a good software comes out.Same case with automobiles,buildings,etc.. How many models are there?? I donot know actually how many are.But i can say there are many.As such,let us look at a few KM models that have been develpoed in the knowledge management discipline.Inorder to get information of what this KM models is all about.

SECI model:

The SECI model was designed by (nonaka and takeuchi,1995).The knowledge creation which is developed have undergone two phases of development.They are "epistemoligical" and "ontological".In the epistemological dimension, knowledge conversion is a social interaction process between tacit and explicit knowledge.Here ,the knowledge is converted from one type to another.Knowledge conversion takes place in four modes.They are tacit to tacit which is socialization,tacit to explicit which is externalization,explicit to explicit which is combination and explicit to tacit which is internalization.The second dimension which is "ontological" dimension depicts the flow from individual to the inter-organizational knowledge(Nonaka & Takeuchi;1995).Through this process individual's knowledge is amplified and crystallized(Nonaka 1994;pp. 17-18).This model has been criticized has a two-by-two diagram(Wilson;2002).

References ::
(1) Nonaka, I. and Takeuchi, H. (1995). The knowledge-creating company. New York, Oxford:Oxford University Press.

(2) Nonaka, I., and Toyama, R. (2003). ‘The knowledge-creating theory revisited: knowledgecreation as a synthesizing process’. Knowledge Management Research & Practice, Vol 1, pp2-10

(3)Nonaka, I. (1991b). ‘Managing the firm as an information creation process ‘. In Meindl, J.R.,Cardy, R.L. and Puffer, S.M. (Eds), Advances in information processing in organizations.Greenwich, Conn., London: JAI Press Inc, pp 239-275.

(4)Nonaka, I. (1994). ‘A dynamic theory of organizational knowledge creation’. OrganizationScience, 5, 1, pp 14-37.

(5)Nonaka, I., Byosiere, P., Borucki, C.C. and Konno, N. (1994). ‘Organizational KnowledgeCreation Theory: a first comprehensive test’. International Business Review, 3, 4, pp 337-351.