The 2006 Delta Forum: Coming to Consensus on Knowledge Management in Aerospace 44th AIAA Aerospace S

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The 2006 Delta Forum Coming to Consensus on
Knowledge Management in Aerospace44th AIAA
Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit Tuesday,
January 10th

• William Andrew Woishnisbillw_at_knovel.com
• Co-founder and Chairman
• Knovel Corporationwww.knovel.com

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Some background

• Mechanical engineer
• Hewlett-Packard RD
• Plastics information online
• Information that wasnt available
• Do it myself

Knovel
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New Product Development
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The knowledge game

• To manage explicit knowledge
• Documents, references,technical databases,
  business processes, training
• To enable the exchange of tacit knowledge
• Dialogues

explicit knowledge
tacit knowledge
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The knowledge game

• Tacit knowledge requires
• access to engineering know-how of employees and
  external experts
• Explicit knowledge requires
• access to open domain engineering knowledge
• retrieval of your organizations IP documents
• retrieval of proprietary IP documents

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Internal and External Content Integration
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Knowledge management should

• Be an integral part of the business design
• Be Pragmatic and effective, through practical
  exploitation of available tools
• Learn from best practices and innovation in
  making cost-effective use of external resources
• Be built in to business processes and ways of
  working
• Provide people with a set of tools through the
  web so that they can work together effectively as
  a global community.

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Knowledge management is

• A process, not a delivery
• A way of working, not an administrative
  task
• FUN, not burden

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Knowledge Management in Aerospace
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Engineering Technology Management Group
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