Knowledge Auditing and Mapping
Book
A comprehensive theoretical and practical guide to the operating principles of knowledge auditing. This book aims to help knowledge managers bring consistency and rigour to the way they identify and evaluate knowledge management needs. Patrick Lambe brings theory and practice together in a lucid and engaging way, and with numerous illustrative case studies.
Articles
In this thought-piece, Patrick traces the origins of knowledge audits in the communication audits of the 1950s. Knowing the history of knowledge audits gives us access to the incredibly rich set of tools and approaches developed by organisational communications scholars and practitioners after the Second World War (and also, incidentally, those developed to support information audits in the 1980s and 1990s). The article also gives a framework for identifying different types of knowledge audits for different purposes.
Posted on 12 May 2015
How-To Guides
These guidelines were compiled by the participants in the Kuala Lumpur Knowledge Management Roundtable, May 3 2017, hosted by Securities Commission Malaysia.
Posted on 3 May 2017.
This is Straits Knowledge's infographic poster of our knowledge audit process.
Posted on 25 February 2014
Most KM projects are top-down, infrastructure driven. They buy lots of confusing technology, then employ specialists to do all the heavy work for you, and then these specialists go round (a) trying to get you to dump your knowledge assets into their portals, and (b) trying to get you to collaborate with total strangers. Ever wondered why KM projects so rarely meet with stunning success?
Posted on 20 August 2002
Videos
In this introductory workshop on conducting knowledge audits and building knowledge maps Patrick describes the different types of knowledge asset that exist inside organisations. The workshop was conducted in Singapore in April 2009.
Knowledge Audits and Knowledge Maps Part II
In part 2 of the video from an introductory workshop on conducting knowledge audits and building knowledge maps Patrick explains how different types of knowledge require different management strategies to address their needs. The workshop was conducted in Singapore in April 2009.
In part 3 of the video from an introductory workshop on conducting knowledge audits and building knowledge maps Patrick describes how to conduct a knowledge mapping workshop as part of a knowledge audit. This video was recorded in Singapore in April 2009.
This video gives a brief introduction to the six knowledge types in the Wheel of Knowledge, which we use as a framework for mapping different knowledge types to key organisational activities.
Posted on 18 January 2021
Why Knowledge Should Not Be Described (Indiscriminately) As An Asset
This is a recording prepared by Chris Collison blending an audio recording and slides, from an SIKM Forum discussion on May 23, 2023. The session consists of about 30 minutes presentation, and 30 minutes discussion.