What are the biggest barriers to Knowledge Management?
• Knowledge is power. Too often people see knowledge hoarding as a way to personal power. However by the same argument, knowledge sharing is empowerment. • People need to move from Building empires to building new relationships. • The Individual work bias of the past (“I have to solve this all by myself”) is shifting to a teamwork and a collaborative bias. • Local focus is often a perceived barrier to knowledge management, which can be converted to a network focus by the establishment of communities of practice. • “Not invented here” can be a real barrier to the import of knowledge, if the relationship of trust is missing. Trust will grow with face-to-face knowledge sharing, and few people resist a request for help. • People are often afraid that Errors will be Penalized, and are therefore unwilling to share what they may see as failures. That is why techniques such as Retrospects accentuate learning from success • People feel they are Not paid to share. Knowledge management is often s
