Managing Knowledge: Concepts, Models, and Culture

MANAGING KNOWLEDGE

Contents
Executive summary.........................................................................................................................3
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
Question 1........................................................................................................................................3
Concepts of knowledge and tacit and SECI model of knowledge...............................................3
Question 2........................................................................................................................................7
Category of culture introduced by Cameron and Quinn..............................................................7
Question 3......................................................................................................................................10
Communities of practices that generate organisational benefits for the company....................10
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................12
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................13

Executive summary
Knowledge is a tool which is enhancing the market area for organisation by
understanding and collecting all the essential information from external and internal environment
of organisation. Tacit and explicit knowledge are two concepts of organisation which consider all
essential information of organisation and define it appropriate manner. The processes creation of
knowledge and conversion types is included in this report. Culture is another factor that is
introduced in organisation by Cameron and Quinn to identify the organisational values and
beliefs. Clan, market, archodary are some types of culture which is used by management to deal
with another aspects of organisation. In the last, communities of practices are also considers in
order to analysis retail industry with a professional and organised manner.
INTRODUCTION
Knowledge management exists as a process that is used for creating, sharing, managing
and using the knowledge to provide appropriate information among on all the departments of an
organisation. In the present scenario, knowledge management working as a multidisciplinary
approach which is used to achieve organisation objectives by using best knowledge about market
and its information. This report is written from the perspective of Asda which is operating their
business in retail business. They are the largest subsidiary of the WallMart family and operate its
stores among all over the world. Moreover, this report highlights on various concepts of
knowledge and SECI model of knowledge. Various category of culture that is introduced by
Cameron and Quinn along with appropriate reasons will also be focus on this report (Vulliamy,
2017). In the last, communities of practices are selected which is used to provide organisational
benefits to Asda will also be included in this report.
Question 1
Concepts of knowledge and tacit and SECI model of knowledge
There are various types of knowledge are implemented by the large organisation and its
individuals such as Asda and its workforce to operate their business at global level. It governs
that they all are different from each others. Therefore, it is mandatory for organisation to
understand the step of knowledge management (Wiltshier and Edwards, 2014). Example-
Knowledge which is considered by the organisation to perform and make their notes is done on
word document. On the other side, while transferring information with other departments it is