knowledge cafe

BIS 4410 (knowledge café)
The topic for the knowledge café is ‘what will happen if a organization is running without knowledge management’. the topic allows us to explore the knowledge from the completely opposite side, in order to, find out the must do and must don’t. in other word, considering what effect the organization most, in terms of knowledge management.Each group will comes out with three areas where affect the organization most, with out knowledge management.
Group 1No communication between peopleNot allow people to express their ideasNo document of production
Group 3
No socialisation and culture
No system
No training
Group 2
No communication
Intranet
Internet
Document
No learning and development
No identification of required knowledge
Group 4
No information flow
No improvement
No system or tools

Those are the final point comes from all the group. A part from group3, rest of the groups believed that, one of the disadvantage is the organization will be running with no communication. This is also the most common point we comes up with during the knowledge café.
In my opinion, the three point affect the organization are:
No communication
No improvement
No competitive

No communication
People who worked there will not talk to each other most of the staff would believe they will be more valuable if others can not solve the problem while they can.

No improvement
If the knowledge is not been shared, means the knowledge level fro the organization will be low. For example, the product development department can not perform a good result, lead to the organization will loss strategic advantage.
No competitive
The organization will loss their competitive when against other competitor.

I did question the effectiveness of the knowledge café on the class. As I think the range of knowledge will be wider, if we can do some research about the knowledge topic. However, I realised knowledge café is not a bad idea. Because knowledge café allows everyone express their idea, as all the ideas are focus on one knowledge point it can actually make the deeper understand of that topic.