What is PD 7501 – Managing culture and knowledge about?
PD 7501 discusses managing culture and knowledge. The aim of the PD 7501 is to provide guidance on KM and Culture that help you be successful.
PD 7501 guidance on how to identify different types of cultures within organizations, their relationships with individuals, and the growth and utilization of individual and organizational knowledge and learning. PD 7501 also gives guidance on managing change, within an organization, towards establishing a successful culture of KM. PD 7501 discusses various different management sciences (for example change management) it does so only, by way of example, to show how KM fits into the current framework of established management sciences.
Note: PD 7501 is primarily oriented to KM and is not intended to cover other specialized management sciences.
Who is PD 7501 – Managing culture and knowledge for?
PD 7501 on managing culture and knowledge is useful for:
- Employees
- Change managers, directors or anyone else involved in a program of introducing and/or sustaining KM within an organization
Why should you use PD 7501 – Managing culture and knowledge?
Culture is a highly significant factor in the management of knowledge and can have a large and profound influence on success and failure. Successful implementation of a Knowledge Management program is very dependent on culture.
PD 7501 basic understanding of the relationship between culture and KM to an appreciation of managing the complex interactions in organizations and how that will affect strategy and implementation. The process of developing ideas and practices will be iterative, adapting and changing with experiences gained.
PD 7501 provides a foundation of how you might look at yourself, your organization and the diversity of individuals and cultures you will be tackling in your program.
Managing Change is an important feature of KM programming and PD 7501 covers some key considerations that will boost success. Many KM interventions have failed because of poor change management.
Overall, PD 7501 is intended to help the reader before, during, and after the implementation of knowledge management.
