Strategy for Knowledge Asset Management
Develop and communicate knowledge asset management goals and objectives. Develop high-level action plans to implement the strategy.
Improvement Planning
Practices-Outcomes-Metrics (POM)
Representative POMs are described for Strategy for Knowledge Asset Management at each level of maturity.
- 1Initial
- Practice
- No knowledge strategy is applied.
- Outcome
- No formal process to design knowledge strategy.
- Metric
- No metrics.
- 2Basic
- Practice
- Define basic goals and objectives at team or department level for the development of the knowledge strategy.
- Outcome
- Basic goals and objectives are defined as input to the knowledge strategy.
- Metric
- # of department level formal meetings to define goals and objectives. # of goals and objectives as input to the knowledge strategy.
- 3Intermediate
- Practice
- Specify details of priority short-, medium-, and long-term knowledge goals to support the development of the knowledge strategy at department level.
- Outcome
- Agreed short-, medium-, and long-term knowledge goals are defined.
- Metric
- # of prioritised goals agreed at department level. # of goals to focus the framing of the knowledge strategy.
- 4Advanced
- Practice
- Align department level short-, medium-, and long-term knowledge goals at an enterprise level, and include in the business plan.
- Outcome
- Aligned goals acknowledged in the business plan.
- Metric
- # of aligned, prioritised, time-based goals adopted in the framing of the knowledge strategy. Yes/No indicator for alignment of knowledge goals. Yes/No indicator for aligned knowledge goals included in the business plan.
- Practice
- Ensure senior management review aligned knowledge goals annually.
- Outcome
- Aligned knowledge goals are reviewed annually.
- Metric
- Yes/No indicator for annual review of aligned knowledge goals.
- 5Optimized
- Practice
- Adopt knowledge strategy across the enterprise.
- Outcome
- A fully developed knowledge strategy is adopted and supports KAM effort across the enterprise.
- Metric
- Yes/No indicators confirming adoption of knowledge strategy.
- Practice
- Establish a measurement process to capture the contributions of the knowledge strategy at an enterprise level.
- Outcome
- Contributions of knowledge strategy are captured through the established measurement process.
- Metric
- Yes/No indicator confirming measurement of the contributions of the knowledge strategy. % positive contributions of the knowledge strategy.
- Practice
- Align knowledge strategy with overall business strategy and revise regularly.
- Outcome
- Alignment and revision of knowledge strategy achieved.
- Metric
- Yes/No indicator for alignment of the adopted knowledge strategy with overall business strategy. Frequency of revision of knowledge strategy (# of revisions per 1–2 years)