Effective Personal Knowledge Management: A Proposed Online Framework

This paper presents an analytical framework for an effective online personal knowledge management (PKM) of knowledge workers. The development of this framework is prompted by our qualitative research on the PKM processes and cognitive enablers of knowledge workers in eight organisations selected from three main industries in Malaysia. This multiple-case research identifies the relationships between the effectiveness of four online PKM processes: get/retrieve, understand/analyse, share, and connect. It also establishes the importance of cognitive enablers that mediate this relationship, namely, method, identify, decide and drive. Qualitative analysis is presented as the findings, supported by the preceded quantitative analysis on an exploratory questionnaire survey.

Authors:

• Shahrinaz Ismail
• Mohd Sharifuddin Ahmad

Keywords:

• Bottom-up approach
• knowledge organisation
• organisational knowledge management
• personal knowledge management
• software agent technology.

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