Case Assignment for MindTree
Dan Wang (王丹) 12210690688
Q1.What are the key elements of MindTree’s approach to knowledge management? How effective are they?
A: The key elements of MindTree’s Approach to KM includes:
1. The way MindTree foster and build social interactions within the company. From MindTree’s value system (CLASS), the administrators have realized that employees are social creatures that wish to build and grow. Thus, they allow employees to self-organize into communities that focus upon a particular topic or aspect of the company.
2. The model in which communities are viewed or categorized in terms of their impact to MindTree. This allows the CKO to look at the knowledge community landscape from a distance, and identify where
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5. The senior management would choose the five best plans and afford resources to help proposers develop their businesses. As a part of “$1 billion revenues by 2014”, the success of this initiative progrom great depended on the knowledge management function. KM would help in the ideation process and would provide critical IT systems support through Neuron. According to the process of the “5*50” initiative program, the KM function would alter its roles and responsibilities in following fields: 1. Neuron would be modified to be a harvesting and tracking mechanism for thousands of ideas. 2. Neuron would be linked to ECM system in order to allow MindTree’s partners working together with employees to develop ideas. 3. The Innovation Council would bring together idea nurturers from each functional area to discuss and help develop the top few ideas. 4. The KM orgnazition would also provide essential content for the mini-MBA program. 5. The KM would support the five business ideas to realize after they were lauched. In my point of view, to coordinate the “5*50” program, the KM should be modified in several aspects: 1. Link to customer relationship management (CRM)system and ERP system to integrate customer acquisition, sales, and other externally-oriented domains. 2. Adding some measure functions to trace ideas and suggestions. 3. Bringing some incentives for people
II. Business Model and Strategic Plan Part I: Existing Business or New Business Division; Vision, Mission, and Value Proposition ………………………………6
Knowledge Management (KM) uses various ways to identify opportunities for improvement (OFI). What needs to be remembered is that KM improvements are not simple, they are in fact complex. “They must be integrated with changes in work processes in other units to yield benefits” (White & Griffith 2010, p. 334). Because important projects can take several years to complete it is important for KM to have a sophisticated planning process for continuous improvement. In order to have a successful
The four owners of the firm will specialize in each of the following management areas: marketing, finance, community relations, and human resources. Our qualifications as business students save us the costs of outsourcing management roles and keeping them internally. Furthermore, all four owners at the inception of the business will deputize as technicians.
Undoubtedly, MindTree most influences the power of its community of communities in order to excel the power of knowledge sharing and collaboration
These are embodied in the employees and they are observed to ensure they input these values within their daily interaction with their co-workers, customers, or partners. One emphasis is to assure it becomes a habit and help the employees grow with improvement.
Therefore, in order to manage knowledge effectively, attention must be paid on to four key
A technologic approach to Knowledge Management has a much higher initial cost, is inherently more scalable, and can handle a much greater transaction volume than an unassisted knowledge worker. Technology in support of Knowledge Management isn’t necessary or even optimal in every instance. Technologies supportive of Knowledge Management can be applied successfully to organizations of any size; extensive investments in technology are generally practical only in medium-size to large companies. Perhaps the most significant way technology enables the KM process is that it can provide virtual meeting space for communities of practice.
To define what is Knowledge Management(KM), one should know what is knowledge first. Knowledge is different data and information. A data gives a specific fact; information is a collection of data that has been organized. Knowledge connects the information that has been given and create the context. For instance, “the third day of a week called Tuesday”, this is a data; “Tuesday is one of the weekdays” and “most people work on weekdays” are the information; Knowledge based on the the information, would suggests that “most people work on Tuesday.”
It has become explicit that knowledge management is not just another fad which has been hyped up by the management consultants and technology vendors. (Remenyi, 2004).It is not facile to implement knowledge management successfully; in as much as it offers. Knowledge management panaceas depending on technology have not produced convincing results considering that more money has been spent. Remenyi went on to say that knowledge management is far more than a technological issue and thus, what is really entailed is a rethink with a prominence on the people side of knowledge management and such approach is the use of a knowledge café.
The concept of Knowledge Management (KM) had introduced since 1990 (Koenig, 2012). The most quote definition about KM is Davenport (1994)’s definition, “Knowledge management is the process of capturing, distributing and effectively using knowledge”. More specifically, Duhon (1998) defined KM as “a discipline that promotes an integrated approach to identifying, capturing, evaluating, retrieving, and sharing all of an enterprise’s information assets. These assets may include databases, documents, policies, procedures, and previously un-captured expertise and experience in individual workers.”
The material uncovered in the results can provide managers of knowledge exchange and application processes with valuable information on how they may further promote knowledge transfer and application (Nesheim et al., 2011).
Before diving into the KMS too much, it is necessary to detail it for the understanding of our process and the rest of this paper. The KMS that we chose was a simple repetitive process containing four steps: creation & acquisition, organization & storage, distribution & sharing, and application & usage (Abdullah, Ibrahim, et al., 2008). From this cyclical system we are able to manage knowledge in many different ways, all of which are beneficial in some way and contribute to the overall ease of use and efficient nature that defines the KMS. Here are each of the steps explained:
10 PCSB ORGANIZATION STRUCTURE ...................... .... 11 4.2 FINANCIAL ...................................... .................. ... . 13 4.3 MARKETING ............................................................ 15 4.4 OPERATION MANAGEMENT
The concept of knowledge management (KM) was introduced early in 1990s, which include business administration, public policy, information systems management, library and information sciences. Knowledge Management became popular in the 1995 with the publication of The Knowledge- Creating Company written by Nonaka and Takeuchi.
Systems that can create and by developing knowledge repositories to motivate people and to provide content.