| | September 20168CIOReviewChristopher HarrisonThe concept of knowledge management has existed for over two decades and at its core basic conceptual definition, it focuses on capturing, developing, sharing and effectively leveraging organizational knowledge within the enterprise for competitive advantage manifested in several different forms. In today's digital world, entities have embraced the value and power of knowledge management to the extent of leveraging expert systems, software, databases, repositories of data and human capital in order to bring together value and efficiency into their organization.Currently, companies have taken the intellectual capital of their organization and have built solid frameworks around the integration, collaboration and collection of critical data points in order to either remain competitive, transform themselves or lead the way. These frameworks together with a plethora of solution providers that include groupware, workflow, content management, document management, portals, eLearning solutions, business intelligence, databases, blogs, wikis and a few others are part of an ecosystem that provide the foundation suite of tools to aid organizations in their quest having the right information available at the right time.Chief Knowledge Officer's today are not only new to the "C" suite but play a critical role in orchestrating the power of knowledge management as they collaborate together with Chief Information Officers, Chief Marketing Officers, Chief Human Resource Officers and other key By Christopher Harrison, CTO, Nova Southeastern UniversityKnowledge Management­A Pragmatic ViewBegin with a phase approach that will enable your knowledge management initiative to be refined and fine-tuned before a wider application
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