Application And Application Of Knowledge Management

Concepts lead change for the Army and drive the development and integration of future capabilities. More specifically, they provide a framework for analysis, readiness assessments, prioritization, and feedback. In addition, concepts serve as a foundation to help the Army maximize effectiveness and minimize risk through both materiel and nonmaterial capabilities. The role of concepts is to describe how future forces will operate. Concepts assists in the identification of prioritized capability gaps and integrated Doctrine, Organization, Training, Materiel, Leadership and education, Personnel, Facilities and Policy (DOTMLPF-P).

As a part of “$1 billion revenues by 2014”, the success of this initiative progrom great depended on the knowledge management function. KM would help in the ideation process and would provide critical IT systems support through Neuron. According to the process of the “5*50” initiative program, the KM function would alter its roles and responsibilities in following fields：

The situation in today 's Army is clearly much different from what existed years ago. Many changes have occurred, moving the Army 's EO program from a strictly educational and training initiative to a multifaceted management program with clear goals and objectives. These goals and objectives are also an integral part of human relations and are nurtured and developed through a professional military education system.

I have a comprehensive understanding of the Department of Defense’s vision and direction and long-range plans and emerging technologies that can lead to proper programming and resource allocation. The Strategy of the DoD, DoN, and the USMC relies on the use of innovation and emerging technologies to maintain both a strategic and tactical advantage in the warfighting domain, and as a means of achieving efficiencies in the business domains. The DoD in general and the DoN specifically have in their vision statements and leadership direction that the services will use innovation both as a force multiplier and a means to achieve efficiencies and costs savings. While the various Services and Agencies within the DoD differ in some aspects, there are numerous similarities. They all have the vision and objectives to delivery information to the user to meet the Command and Control and IT needs, even in a contested environment. Generally, the goals within the Department are to consolidate and stabilize the infrastructure, unify communications, manage innovation, build and maintain a strategic workforce, consolidate datacenters leading to improve application portfolio access and management and lastly enhance network operations. I will point out here that I have been materially involved in all aspects of these

Their solution was to develop a knowledge management portal on the company’s intranet. Good planning is important because the company is a large business. Logging in and inputting data can be challenging if everyone is out on the field gathering information then remembering to input what’s relevant to the current situation.

The role of concepts is to link vision and guidance to provide organizational capability solutions. An additional role of concepts is to establish an intellectual foundation and help leaders identify opportunities to improve future force capabilities through Army modernization. The Army’s Functional Concept for Movement and Maneuver (AFC-MM) is an example of driving a concept across multiple DOTMLPF domains. Whereas the AFC-MM employs cross-domain maneuver ensuring integration of capabilities in all domains to achieve synergistic effect multiplying relative combat power to enable maneuver forces overthrow enemy forces .

All these systems change as new technology advances into the way we do business. Every year, increasingly, military occupational specialties will encompass information technology to enhance performance, speed, and reliability for real-time situational awareness. The military is on the cutting edge in conceiving, testing, and adapting information

Knowledge Management process allowed for the organization to stay informed in the latest products and processes.

Military leaders have recognized the role of information as a key contributor to victory on the battlefield. The ability of the commander to quickly receive, analyze, and pass information is a critical element to the success of military operations. In order to understand how information affects military operations it is necessary to think in terms of three distinct domains; the physical domain consisting of the natural environment in which the senses are dominant, the information domain consisting of data, information systems, and documented knowledge, and the cognitive domain which consists of situational awareness, assessment and understanding. Technological innovation introduced over time has provided the ability to transition from one

The ability to gather and disseminate information has continuously increased over the years with technological advancements allowing people to share almost limitless amounts of data and near-real time rates. Yet, all information isn’t relevant information. This creates a requirement to develop tools, systems, and processes to compile relevant data into information. The people and processes place information into a factual and meaningful context that creates knowledge. In order for the people properly share knowledge with each other efficiently, there must be a Knowledge Management Program. In this paper, I will cover how the 3rd Infantry Division manages knowledge to support mission command, and the conclusion of interviews of key personnel involved in the knowledge management within the 3rd Infantry Division.

Fortunately, the U.S. Army, in conjunction with the Department of Defense, have devised plans to ensure the United States’ leadership role is unchallenged. When implemented the Joint Information Environment will be able to support combatant commanders, with the ability access relevant information quickly, through a shared infrastructure which host integrated application systems (Joint Chief of Staff, 2013). The ability to share data across

People. The 153rd troop command will appoint a Knowledge Management Officer (KMO) for the brigade in order to facilitate the streamlining of knowledge management throughout the brigade. The KMO will become familiar with ATP 6-01.1, coordinate with other oraganizations KMOs for assistance, and seek attendance at the Army Knowledge Management Qualification Course at the earliest opportunity. The S3 will maintain overall responsibility of the brigade’s knowledge management program and the assignment and training of knowledge management officers. Primary staff members along with the KMO and the Executive Officer (XO) will comprise a knowledge management working

Knowledge Management (KM) purpose is to share information amongst a community. To effectively share that information, people or cultures need to be committed to KM processes using state-of-the art technology. The Army has given guidance to commanders in the form of twelve KM principles, intended to facilitate KM efforts and policies. After reviewing the twelve KM principles, I have chosen four to elaborate on my understanding of the principle and why I believe the Army as a whole has shortcomings in achieving the intent of each principle. Lack of leadership commitment, vision and resource investment has undermined the proper implementation and execution of the Army KM principles, affecting the Army’s ability to effectively and efficiently share valuable information.

NASA contributed to a number of successes in American history. During the past, the organization has rapidly acquired a number changes that has created an opportunity to expand and improve Knowledge Management (KM). Similar to many other important organizations, NASA has frequently pursued ways to capture knowledge into their information systems assuming that it could be managed best when it 's captured in a system for later retrieval. In the past 10 years, the budgets on their missions have been reduced, missions have multiplied ten-fold, and scientists and engineers have been overwhelmed by the extreme challenges. The most important factors that are addressed includes the importance of learning, (FBC) faster, better, cheaper implications, and knowledge management that supports innovation in the future.

Within the Army organizations of today knowledge management plays a huge role in the dissemination of information to the unit and it’s soldiers. This is no different for the aviation unit in which I operate. This information can be found in FM 6-01.1, Knowledge Management Operations. It defines knowledge management as the process of enabling knowledge flow to enhance shared understanding, learning, and decision-making. But when the unit was surveyed about their understanding of knowledge management the results were surprising.