Knowledge Management Project Leader

Many organizations face the question of who should lead the knowledge management project.

The world of knowledge management has many roots: quality, people, computing, processes, organization, and culture. A review of various organizations reveals that knowledge management leaders come from diverse fields, including business management, quality management, human resources, and personnel management. In many organizations, it's led by the computing department. What is the correct formula? Knowledge management is a complex and challenging task to implement. Who is suitable to lead it to bring it to safe harbor, to success? The truth is, it doesn't matter very much.

What matters is:

1. The organization's management sponsors the subject.

2. The project partners include representatives from several factors (for example, computing + quality).

3. The project leader is accepted at the organization-wide level for leading organization-wide initiatives.

4. The project leader approaches the project with a broad business-organizational view and not with a departmental perspective (one or another).

The bottom line is that, like in any project, there are three key success factors: the project manager, the team, and the project manager. It is therefore appropriate that the knowledge management leader should be, first and foremost, an outstanding organizational project manager. The rest will follow. Based, among other things, on an article by Mr. Thomas Hugland on the subject.

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