phase analysis
A Knowledge Management project can be divided into four stages: Knowledge management planning, knowledge sorting, system selection and implementation, and continuous improvement. At each stage of the project, enterprises may face various risks. Before discussing these risks, let's take a look at the four stages of the project and what the enterprises should do.
in the knowledge management planning stage, enterprises are faced with three main tasks. The first is to detail future development strategies, summarize the key success factors of an enterprise, and determine the support points of knowledge management. For example, for product R & D-oriented enterprises, knowledge management is mainly applied in R & D departments; for sales-oriented enterprises and terminal control-oriented enterprises, the core application of knowledge management should be in marketing departments; in the customer service-oriented service industry, knowledge management helps to improve the management of customer knowledge and customer service experience. The business model, development strategy, and key success factors of different enterprises determine the overall strategy and core of knowledge management.
System Support risks: select appropriate knowledge management system software to support knowledge management, and there are System Support risks, it mainly includes functional risks of the software of the knowledge management system and the selection risks of the software. Software functionality does not meet enterprise needs, lack of integration openness, poor maturity and stability, lack of software supply and service provider evaluation methods, improper selection, and blind decision-making will eventually lead to failure of knowledge management projects.
system usage risks: After the knowledge management software system is launched, employees of the enterprise cannot use the system frequently, the knowledge management system cannot be maintained, which makes it difficult to guarantee the quantity and quality of knowledge in the knowledge management system. In the "vicious circle", the knowledge management system is gradually becoming a flashy display.
Strategic fuzzy risk: after the completion of the Knowledge Management Project, other strategies will be gradually adjusted over time. The knowledge management strategy also needs to closely follow the enterprise's overall strategy to make adjustments, otherwise, strategic fuzzy risks may easily occur, leading to insufficient efforts of KM in supporting enterprise strategies.
Risk Sharing: a full-time or part-time knowledge management team will devote a lot of energy to the project. In the continuous improvement period after the completion of the project, the team is prone to lack of concentration, and the enterprise knowledge management work is also facing the risk of scattered organizations.
risk of employee turnover: After the knowledge management project is completed, a group of professional km practitioners have grown up, enterprises must adopt a good performance management system to maintain the stability of these professionals, otherwise they will face the risk of losing km professionals.
sustained development risks: lack of understanding about the long-term changing characteristics of knowledge management.