Saturday, March 30, 2013

Knowledge Management vs Skill Management

# Knowledge Management Skill Management
1 It Involves capturing the knowledge of employees and sharing it so that it is available for others to use. It only focuses on application of Knowledge to find Solution
2 It's learning technique It's a Problem Solving Technique
3 It starts from individual and ends in sharing. It starts with sharing and ends up in individuals ability
4 Knowledge Management uses experience gained out of failures and also success. Skill is strongly measured based on only success of solving problems.
5 Knowledge is an intellectual property. Skill is one of the means of producing intellectual property.
6 Knowledge is relative. Skill is individualistic.
7 Knowledge is implicit. Skill is explicit.
8 It's a measure of the VALUE of the Organization. It's the measure of the ABILITY of the Organization.

In brief, Knowledge Management is learning and Skill Management is applying what has been learnt. Such application of skill may result in improvement over earlier learning and thus knowledge but not necessarily improvement of skill. Thus Knowledge is dynamic.

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