Knowledge Management can vary from company to companies. You can look at different companies and see this first hand. This can be for a number of reasons. You have different productions, different leadership, and different understandings. Partners Healthcare, Nucor Steel, and Buckman Labs are an example of varying knowledge managements.
Partners Healthcare had different problems than Nucor Steel and Buckman Labs. The problem that occurred was that Partners were getting medical errors. This is because they had to much information and often it would get lost, misplaced, and obsolete. So in order to control their medical errors they created integrated systems of information. These databases included order entry, drug, patient, and lab test; an online access
to relevant medical publications.
Nucor Steel goes into a different direction for how they manage their knowledge. They use three different techniques to increase their knowledge stock. Those three techniques are knowledge creation, knowledge acquisition and knowledge retention. Each of these combine to provide superior human capital, high power-ed incentives,
empowered employees, abilities, mind-set, behaviors, the lowest turnover
rate in industry, successful ability to identify mutual interests and goals,
operating policies cultivate loyalty and commitment.
Buckman Labs are one of the companies who have a different view of knowledge management. Employees have access to whatever information they
need, easy user ability, and 24/7 access. This causes more productivity and according to the text an employee who is
given information can’t help but to take responsibility.
Some of these companies are in the health field, manufacturing, and etc. This is why they are have different ways to share knowledge. As one can see knowledge management can be handled different but is still created to serve one purpose.
