What Is The Knowledge Management Toolkit?Knowledge management has begun to be big business and there are many vendors that are taking advantage of the fact that there are many companies that are in the starting stages of setting up their company intranet and they need help with the integration of a knowledge management portal and the knowledge management toolkit that creates it. There are many types of knowledge management tool kits on the market today in the form of books and in software programs. The vendors understand that creating a knowledge management system is a difficult undertaking and that the companies need some leadership in the department of knowledge management in order to get them the right kind of a knowledge management toolkit for the type of information that they will be accessing. The knowledge management toolkit should consist of contents such as a knowledge management fact sheet which basically shows a working perspective of how the companies knowledge management should work. It should consist of knowledge sharing which will usually come in the form of a power point presentation is it is on a software program. This introduces the topic of knowledge sharing and how it works. There should also be a knowledge management implementation plan template which is a template that shows the company their plan of action that should be taken in specific reference to their knowledge needs. The knowledge management toolkit should also include a knowledge management organization document which is really a summary of your organization's road to knowledge management and this will be in a form to be able to give a presentation and introduce your staff to knowledge management. There should also be a knowledge management assessment and ROI which is a tool for the company to find out the answers to where their organization is at the present time and where is the organization going from there. The ROI is a method to calculate the return of investment. The knowledge management toolkit should also have knowledge management tools which are basically a summary of what tools the company has in their strategy of knowledge management and how they plan on using those tools. There should also be some form of a knowledge economy and KM future which is a document and could also be a presentation showing what the future could hold for the company if the knowledge management system is put into place. And last but not least, the knowledge management toolkit should have a KM systems and workshop which is a helper for the people in the leadership positions in order to get their staff talking and documenting the thoughts and ideas that come out. |