SYNOPSIS

Knowledge Management (KM) has evolved to become a work functional discipline since the Nineties. It is about strategies and practices that an organization can gainfully use to identify, create, represent, distribute, and/or effect adoption of insights and experiences. These insights and experiences are actually knowledge that are both embodied within manning individuals and inherent within work processes of the organization.  

KM in practice relates to and typically focuses on an organization’s developmental or forward objectives – such as on lessons learnt, improved performance, competitive advantage, innovation, and continual improvement. While its efforts interface with that of organizational learning, KM particularly deals with managing knowledge as a strategic asset as well as facilitating and encouraging the sharing of knowledge – efforts of such value adding outcome as the retention of intellectual capital,  reducing work redundancy, and avoiding “reinventing the wheel“.

The talk will cover what is KM and how significant it is especially to an organization with business functionally premised on engineering knowledge and manned (generally) by engineers.


BIODATA OF SPEAKER

Encik Agil Atan is a self-employed mechanical engineer who had retired after 32 years of service with  PETRONAS. His past work experience include planning, designing, engineering,  procurement, inspection, construction, pre-commissioning, post-commissioning audit, and engineering maintenance of chemical and process plants including those relating to mechanical installation,  rotary equipment, and piping. He has held  positions as executive mechanical engineer, project engineer, project manager, and general manager. En. Agil has wide knowledge of and work exposure in managing engineering-based information and had been the head of Knowledge Management at the PETRONAS Group Technology Solutions Division prior to retirement.