Managing Knowledge: Processes, Types, and Cultures

Managing Knowledge

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
TASK ..............................................................................................................................................1
Question 1: Four different knowledge creation processes and the knowledge conversion types
.....................................................................................................................................................1
Question 2: 4 types of cultures introduced by Cameron and Quinn (2006)................................4
Question 3: Benefits that a community of practice can have to individuals and teams..............6
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................9
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................10

INTRODUCTION
Knowledge management is related to developing, sharing and managing knowledge and
information of company. It is related to attain the objectives of company through making better
knowledge use. The knowledge management is conscious process of explaining, structuring and
sustaining knowledge as well as experience of staff members within an organisation. Its main
objective is to improving efficiency of company and also save the knowledge within organisation
(Abdalla, Suresh and Renukappa, 2020). Managing the information of company resources to
improve organisation performance. It is a system that inculcates capturing and storing knowledge
with putting value on the intellectual property. ASAD is the British retailer in West Yorkshine.
This firm was started in year 1949 when Asquith family unify retail business with the Associated
Dairies firm of Yorkshire. In United Kingdom, ASDA comes on second and this was the biggest
suboedinate of WalMart family. In this report, going to discuss about the knowledge, tactic and
the explicit knowledge. There will be discuss about the communities of practice which can give
profit to companies.
TASK
Question 1: Four different knowledge creation processes and the knowledge conversion types
ASDA is British supermarket in Leeds, West Yorkshine. It was founded in 1949 and
enlarged till South of England during 1970s and 1980s. It provides the different number of the
financial services and provide mobile phone that are using existing EE network.
The knowledge is one of competitive resources and related with cultivation of the
systems that enable an organisation to be improve, distribute and also detect knowledge assets.
This can be viewed as process of output and input where knowledge of an individual is to be
represented as input that generated. It is awareness and understanding of something for an
instance skills, objects and facts (Alosaimi, Renukappa and Suresh, 2018).
Explicit knowledge is the type of knowledge that arranged and formalized. It is basic
form of the knowledge and easier to pass due to accessibility. This knowledge is mainly handled
through KMS in an easy manner because it is effective in facilitating storage, modification of
texts and retrieval. In this, when data is organised, processes, interpreted and structured then it
result is explicit knowledge. For managerial perspective, more challenge is same to the
information. This generally consists assuring that people have the access about requirement,

stored important knowledge. The explicit knowledge is not more important as it is easy in the
nature and the experience based that helps in generating competitive benefit. For an example,
better skills and also practices of employees in ASDA are transferable from job to the job.
Tactic knowledge was explained through Polanyi in year 1996. It is related to know that
how and refer to the initiative, complex to explain knowledge which on experience based. This is
complex to be interact and also rooted deeply in commitment, involvement and action. In regards
to this, tactic knowledge is mainly considered as valuable knowledge sources and lead to the
breakthroughs in company (Bican, Guderian and Ringbeck, 2017). On the tactic knowledge, lack
of focus directly minimized capability for the innovation as well as sustained competitiveness.
This knowledge is fact that often spreads through company without documented. On the other
hand, tactic understanding is application of the implicit knowledge which is particular to ASDA
organisation. As the staff members started transferring from the different job, request of implicit
knowledge will be changed on the basis about uniqueness of business.
SECI Model
It is conceptual model that was proposed through Nonaka (1991). This mainly explained
how the tacit and explicit knowledge is generated, transferred and also recreated in company.
This model is mainly used in the knowledge management. Nonaka sees the ongoing knowledge
creation as continuous innovation sources of the sustained competitive benefit. Knowledge is
mainly developed among the individuals and environment. As users practise, collaborate,
connect and learn, information is constantly translated and developed. Rather than static model,
the mechanism should be seen as continuous, complex, swirl of information. SECI model comes
out of the investigation in the knowledge management that concerned to the business
administration, organisation learning and also information systems (Choo, Ling and Fernando,
2018). It is essentially visual representation that takes place in an organisation of conflicting,
continuous processes. When the company makes innovation then they do not make the
innovation process simpler. For resolving the existing issues and adopt the changing
environment. They mainly develop the new information and knowledge, from inside out to
redefine both problems and solutions to re- develop environment. Nonaka consider knowledge as
changing human process about justifying the personal belief towards truth. This mainly
emphasizes that the knowledge is necessary concerned to human action. As fundamental basis
for knowledge creation theory, the main focus of ASDA company is attention on active,