What is the Knowledge Management Vision statement for your organisation?
Here are a few vision statements from companies; some are official statements, some are CEO statements that encapsulate the vision, some are statements crafted by the KM team. Where I can find online references, I have added them.
If you have a moment, please share your KM vision statement with other readers using the Comments field! The more examples we have, the better.
Accenture
“To create a world class knowledge-sharing culture and environment that contributes to Accenture’s success”
Federal Transit Administration FTA knows what it knows; it is continuously filling the gaps of what it does not know
HealthCanada
Health Canada analyses, creates, shares and uses health knowledge to maintain and improve the health of the people of Canada : · through its knowledge management processes and strategies which are tailored to advance the business lines of the department; · as a model knowledge organization; and · as a leader, facilitator and partner, in the development of a Canadian health infostructure, responding to national and international trends and opportunities.
BP
We know what we know, learn what we need to learn, and use knowledge for sustained competitive advantage (Internal KM vision)
“Anyone in the organisation who is not directlyaccountable for making a profit should be involved in creating and distributing knowledge that the company can use to make a profit” (CEO statement)
USAID
To connect people, work smarter and get results. This includes accessing and leveraging worldwide development knowledge; generating new intellectual capital; and continuously learning from their activities.
US Federal Government, working definition
The Federal government continues its transformation journey to become the pre-eminent provider of knowledge among and across the nation with national security in mind. We must shape our environment and leverage our knowledge as steward of the taxpayer’s dollars. To that end we must achieve our mission to safeguard the United States and our Allies from threats while securing knowledge that could be of benefit to our enemies. To maintain an advantage over our adversaries and provide mission readiness, we must further our capabilities, programs, and supporting knowledge bases. This transformation will require changes to be made in the manner in which we leverage our knowledge across the federal government; changes that will move us from a stove-piped, decentralized environment to a learning environment, constantly striving to leverage personnel assets, and improve and enable processes. Key to this transformation is the need to create a trusted environment where the culture is focused on sharing knowledge,using integrated technologies and incentivizing and rewarding knowledge contributions across the government and it’s stakeholders and partners, both nationally and internationally.
Ernst and Young
The focus of our knowledge deliveries is to harness the global knowledge of Ernst & Young tempered with appropriate external sources and to leverage this on behalf of our client-facing users to ensure that the focused value of our knowledge is brought to bear on the firm’s service delivery
NSW health
NSW Health’s Knowledge Management Program will enable the capture, distribution, use and development of innovations that enhance the delivery of patient care; promote the sharing of experiences and lessons learnt from their development and implementation; and connect people in communities of practice to foster further innovation.
British Airways The vision of the end-state is that “The culture and tools are in place to make the appropriate sharing of knowledge the norm in British Airways”
Anglo American
We will instil a more regular approach of sharing knowledge and ideas as central to the way the new Anglo American does business. We have practices that are clearly world class. We will work to achieve greater consistency across the company in applying these practices everywhere. (CEO statement)
Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP
The knowledge management vision within the firm is to enable professionals to acquire knowledge and synthesize data faster and easier”
Israel Aircraft Industry
New Knowledge will be created, shared, and reused, as part of IAI personnel’s common practice, for the achievement of IAI’s vision and the fulfillment of its goal
Lutheran Education Authority
KM for LEA means developing an innovative and creative work environment where individuals, schools and regions:
Learn from each other, through sharing knowledge and information
Access single sources of data to promote the construction of knowledge and, in turn, wisdom;
Access knowledge and information in a timely manner;
Effect standard core policies, protocols or processes;
Embrace core operating principles that deliver best practice at all levels using common definitions and terminology; and
Communicate using unified systems.
The associated strategic directions for this vision will be to:
Develop and market a KM culture using change management principles;
Establish a policy framework;
Establish core systems and databases to achieve a single point of access for corporate knowledge with seamless work flows; and
Establish a dedicated role to drive and implement the strategic Knowledge Management
Natural Resources Canada
Saudi Aramco
Knowing what we know, and knowing what we need to know
A 16th Bonus vision
Wipro
To be an organization where knowledge capture and sharing is the way we work, offering customers speed-to-deploy as well as innovative products and services focused on their needs, and offering employees an environment of continuous learning and productivity improvements
