Knowledge Asset Road Maps

This paper describes how AIAI has used the ideas and techniques behind Technology Road Maps in order to provide a framework for developing Knowledge Asset Road Maps to support knowledge management initiatives. By carefully relating knowledge management actions upwards to business objectives and strategies, and downwards to specific knowledge assets, a co-ordinated picture of the various parts of an organisation’s overall knowledge management programme can be visualized and justified. Knowledge Asset Road Maps used as a strategic planning tool, allow the gaps between an organisation’s current know-how and future requirements to be identified, and informed investment decisions to close this gap to be made.