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A Study to Identify the Forces Behind KMS Implementation in Indian B-Schools


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The Indian Management education is undergoing a paradigm shift in its scope and essence. However any progress comes with its own quiver of challenges. At the same time every challenge is an opportunity in disguise and every innovation bears its genesis in obstacles faced and conquered. With the set of high quality infrastructure, qualified teachers, efficient placement and training officers, eminent guest/visiting lecturers, well equipped computer labs and libraries, B-Schools are still experiencing some gaps in their day to working and lacking in acquiring good information and ultimately end up in poor decision making which causes low results against expectations.

The knowledge management system implementation could be the solution to pave the gaps in information system execution and would lead fo effective decision making of an organization.

KMS implementation is a systematic process. It includes a study of identification of knowledge sources, knowledge sharing mechanisms, hardware and software components, people’s perspective, top management initiatives and the reasons behind KMS implementation. The study about the forces responsible for KMS implementation are useful to define the objectives for execution, to set the priority of activities to be implemented and to understand the awareness level of the organization about KMS implementation.


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Knowledge Management, Decision Making, Strategic Advantage, Competitive Advantage, Employee Participation.
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  • A Study to Identify the Forces Behind KMS Implementation in Indian B-Schools

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Vaishali Kulkarni
Associate Professor, St. Francis Institute of Management & Research, Borivli (W), Mumbai - 400103, India

Abstract


The Indian Management education is undergoing a paradigm shift in its scope and essence. However any progress comes with its own quiver of challenges. At the same time every challenge is an opportunity in disguise and every innovation bears its genesis in obstacles faced and conquered. With the set of high quality infrastructure, qualified teachers, efficient placement and training officers, eminent guest/visiting lecturers, well equipped computer labs and libraries, B-Schools are still experiencing some gaps in their day to working and lacking in acquiring good information and ultimately end up in poor decision making which causes low results against expectations.

The knowledge management system implementation could be the solution to pave the gaps in information system execution and would lead fo effective decision making of an organization.

KMS implementation is a systematic process. It includes a study of identification of knowledge sources, knowledge sharing mechanisms, hardware and software components, people’s perspective, top management initiatives and the reasons behind KMS implementation. The study about the forces responsible for KMS implementation are useful to define the objectives for execution, to set the priority of activities to be implemented and to understand the awareness level of the organization about KMS implementation.


Keywords


Knowledge Management, Decision Making, Strategic Advantage, Competitive Advantage, Employee Participation.

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