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Revision of key Concepts
a) Describe several benefits to an organisation of undertaking knowledge management.
b) Explain how the interdisciplinary origin of KM has influenced the ways in which it is studied and practiced.
c) Define tacit and explicit knowledge and explain the importance of each to knowledge management.
d) Nonaka proposed the SECI model of knowledge creation within organisations. Explain the key features of the SECI model, using examples to illustrate your answer.
e) Explain what a community of practice (CoP) is and how CoP may be developed and supported in an organisation.
f) Explain why and how formal metadata is used to prepare stored content for a knowledge repository.
g) Describe some of the barriers to knowledge sharing in an organisation, and how they might be overcome.
h) Describe some of the problems associated with centralised knowledge repositories that more social approaches and technologies aim to address.
i) Briefly describe the key steps an organisation should go through in creating a
knowledge management strategy.
j) Explain how the lessons learned and best practices techniques can assist an
organisation in becoming a 'learning organisation'.
k) What is a knowledge audit? Why would an organisation carry out a knowledge audit?
l) Explain what knowledge continuity management is and why it is essential for organisations.