# Knowledge Wiki

## Concepts

- **[[Codification vs. personalization strategies]]** — Two major KM strategies in which organizations either store knowledge in repositories for reuse or connect people directly to experts for knowledge exchange.
- **[[Knowledge audit]]** — A structured assessment of an organization’s knowledge assets, gaps, flows, and strengths used to guide knowledge management strategy and decision-making.
- **[[Knowledge management]]** — A discipline and set of organizational processes for creating, sharing, applying, and preserving knowledge to improve performance, learning, and innovation.
- **[[Knowledge management technologies]]** — The software and technical infrastructure that support KM, including collaboration tools, repositories, workflow systems, portals, e-learning, and semantic technologies.
- **[[Knowledge protection]]** — The set of formal and informal mechanisms used to prevent valuable organizational knowledge from misuse, imitation, loss, or unauthorized access.
- **[[Knowledge retention]]** — Knowledge management practices aimed at preventing loss of critical expertise, especially when employees leave, by capturing, transferring, and integrating organizational knowledge.
- **[[SECI model (Knowledge Spiral)]]** — Nonaka and Takeuchi’s model describing how knowledge is created through iterative conversion among tacit and explicit forms via socialization, externalization, combination, and internalization.
- **[[Tacit and explicit knowledge]]** — A foundational knowledge classification that distinguishes hard-to-articulate personal know-how from codified, communicable knowledge.

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