Developing Corporate Taxonomies for Knowledge Auditability - A Framework for Good Practices

Journal of Knowledge Organization, Vol. 35, No. 1, 2008

33 Pages Posted: 31 May 2012

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Ravi Sharma

Center for Inclusive Digital Enterprise - CeIDE; Zayed University

Schubert Foo

affiliation not provided to SSRN

Miguel Morales-Arroyo

affiliation not provided to SSRN

Date Written: August, 26 2008

Abstract

The organisation of knowledge for exploitation and re-use in the modern enterprise is often a most perplexing challenge. The entire knowledge management life-cycle (for example - create, capture, organize, store, search, and transfer) is impacted by the organisation of intellectual capital into a corporate taxonomy or at the least a knowledge map (often incorrectly used interchangeably). Determining the extent to which such an objective is achieved is the focus of what is known as a knowledge audit. In this practice-oriented article, the authors review the fundamentals of creating a taxonomy, the use of meta-data in a necessary process known as classification and the role of expertise locators where the knowledge is not explicit but resides within experts in the form of tacit knowledge. The authors conclude with a framework for developing a corporate taxonomy and how such a project may be executed. The conceptual contribution of this article is the postulation that corporate taxonomies that are designed to facilitate knowledge audits lead to greater organizational impact.

Keywords: knowledge ontologies, taxonomy tools and methods, knowledge mobilization

Suggested Citation

Sharma, Ravi S. and Foo, Schubert and Morales-Arroyo, Miguel, Developing Corporate Taxonomies for Knowledge Auditability - A Framework for Good Practices (August, 26 2008). Journal of Knowledge Organization, Vol. 35, No. 1, 2008, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1258162

Ravi S. Sharma (Contact Author)

Center for Inclusive Digital Enterprise - CeIDE ( email )

New Zealand

HOME PAGE: http://www.ceide.org

Zayed University ( email )

P.O. Box 4783
Abu Dhabi
United Arab Emirates

HOME PAGE: http://www.tinyurl.com/ravi-zu

Schubert Foo

affiliation not provided to SSRN

Miguel Morales-Arroyo

affiliation not provided to SSRN

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