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Jurnal PPM: Journal of Malaysian Librarians
Vol. 14, 2020

information and most importantly, the tacit knowledge and expertise resident in the
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heads of individual employees.’
Based on the author’s experience, KM is easily defined as the discipline, culture and
process in creating value by the systematic management of the strategic knowledge
assets of an organisation. The keywords that we need to understand are discipline,
culture, process and strategic knowledge assets.

In any form of science, it is governed by a set of framework and underlying principles
that form the discipline of the subject. In KM, it is a mix of several social, management,
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library, information and computer sciences . This paper does not intend to look at this
in detail and suffice to summarise that the nature of the discipline requires further
scientific probing and it is understood that the key components of that discipline include
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knowledge culture and process .

In summary, there is not much difference between the definition LIS and KM. The
principle and process are almost the same. The only difference is what the discipline is
dealing with or managing. Let us look at the types of knowledge both discipline are
managing and then the details of the discipline and processes for both LIS and KM.

TYPES OF KNOWLEDGE WE ARE MANAGING
The definition of KM says that the critical thing that KM is managing is the strategic
knowledge assets of the organisation. Before we can even try to decipher what is
strategic knowledge asset let us understand what is knowledge within the context of an
organisation.

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