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Knowledge Creation

The main goals of Knowledge Creations are:

Create new knowlege within the community
Connect, aquire, exchange and build new knowlege
New science occurs through the process of building upon internal and external knowledge communities.

Read more... on Enhancing Organizational Knowledge Creation for Breakthrough Innovation: Tools and Techniques; by Peter Koen, Richard McDermott, Robb Olsen, and Charles Prather.

Read more... Articles on Knowledge Management from IBM.

1. Technology Based COMMUNITIES OF PRACTICE (COP)

Goal: Create a real and virtual environment for continuous learning by and for key inventors to provide them with a broad repertoire of both technical and business management techniques for achieving breakthrough Products and Services

Papers on Communities of Practice

Knowing in Community: 10 Critical Success Factors in Building Communities of Practice by Richard McDermott
Knowing is a Human Act: How Information Technology Inspired but cannot Deliver Knowledge Management by Richard McDermott
Communities of Practice: The organizational Frontier by Etienne C. Wegner and William T. Snyder Birth, development and maturation of the opportunity into new ideas

2. KNOWLEDGE MAPPING

Technology maps which define the core capabilities, competencies and gaps of the organization
Technology Knowledge Strategy should be based on Core Competencies and Capabilities of the Organization

Core Competencies and capabilities are more enduring than product and market knowledge

3. Shared FUTURE VISION

Where will the new products of the future come from?

Nothing happens until there is a vision
Genuine energy, enthusiasm and preference occurs, even in the face of setbacks, when people understand the vision of the future
It is a process of continually focusing and refocusing on what one truly wants

4. PROJECT SNAPSHOT

"Collaborative" Project Snapshots

Captures the current and past learning of the projects
Approaches, insights and outcomes are captured from experiences of:

What is working?
Has worked?
What hasn't?

-LiveLink
-NetMeeting
-WebEx

5. IT TOOLS - Better Enable Knowledge Creation

Intellectual Property

Technology Search Engines
Semantic search engines allow one to more quickly search technology literature

Co-Brain

Co-citation Literature Searching
Method for analyzing vast amounts of literature and identifying promising new scientific areas based on relatedness and age of primary citations used

VXInsight

Visualization Tools

Inventing Tools
Methods of Problem Solving using IT tools to support the methodology

TRIZ (the Russian acronym for Theory of Inventive Problem Solving)

Mind Mapping

Intellectual Property Patent Factory
Methods and software for increasing the quality and quantity of patent “real-estate” using existing companies intellectual property and competitors and building higher patent fences