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What is Knowledge Management (KM)?

Knowledge Sharing Stories - Other KM Resources

Adapted from Mark Burk's Cycle of Knowledge

Knowledge management involves systematically and routinely creating, gathering, organizing, sharing, adapting and using knowledge - from both inside and outside an organization - to help achieve organizational goals and objectives (Milton, 2002).

Put more simply, knowledge management gets the right knowledge to the right people at the right time so they can work more effectively (APQC, 2003).

Knowledge management offers reproductive health care programs a new point of view – one that values many different kinds of knowledge as essential organizational resources. On these pages you can:

Read about knowledge management (KM)
Review and link to important KM resources
Read success stories about knowledge sharing
Learn how INFO knowledge management products have been used around the world

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