Knowledge management is an exciting career field for people who are looking to get into an industry which has a promising future and opportunities for career growth in the future. Knowledge management as a career path has become more popular in the 21st century simply because there is more knowledge to manage in this day and age. The amount of data and information which is swirling around the international data stratosphere is astronomical and needs to be managed in the day to day. Because knowledge management is a burgeoning career, there are many new opportunities which were not available until very recently.

What actually is knowledge management?

Knowledge management is known as the elongated process of curating and maintaining the exploitation of data and information (and the assets they provide). This process is done, and results are achieved for a singular organisation’s sole benefit. A lot of people who are involved in business operations and management processes are knowledge management involved professionals and might not actually realise it. For example, if you have been involved in a business acquisition, the dissemination of crude information, or other processes involving data management; you may be a knowledge management professional already.

Knowledge management is in a similar category to data and content managing careers with one simple but crucial difference; it is a lot more strategy driven. Knowledge management careers treat knowledge, data, and information as an ‘asset’, like you would treat a person, place, or piece of equipment. This important asset is now treated as crucial and something that must be consistently monitored, maintained, and curated for maximum use or benefit. Rebecca Moran, a business writer at Boomessays review and Ukservicesreviews, commented, “Knowledge management is often defined as the constant curation and application of proven methodology used to obtain and maintain knowledge, drive innovative processes, and assist an organisation in driving standards and performance up in tandem.” Without knowledge management, organisations become stale and irrelevant, quickly falling out with public favour and disseminating themselves through ignorance; piece by piece. 

So What Career Options are There in Knowledge Management?

Knowledge Assistant Role

A knowledge assistant role is primarily in charge of developing and maintaining support systems for knowledge management. Their primary responsibility is to develop tools such as training information and data analysis tools to assist knowledge management professionals in their roles and responsibilities. This is a stepping stone on the knowledge management ladder.

Knowledge Management Professional

This is the most senior role for someone in the knowledge management industry, and the normal ‘high point’ in someone’s career who has been pursuing this avenue of business for their whole career. This role involves a lot of people management of those underneath them who are managing the hands on activities of data and information management and curating the exploitation of this information.

Systems Analyst or Manager

This role is more involved in the technical aspect of knowledge and information management and requires more technical skills and prior education. This involves mainly development and maintenance of systems and security in the process.

Chief Knowledge Strategy Manager

This crucial role is solely in charge of the management of functions which surround knowledge management. Though this role involves some people management as well, it mostly concerns itself with data and information management. “This position is crucial in larger businesses because of the depth and breadth of the knowledge management which occurs in larger organisations. The person in this role is responsible for the direction of knowledge management processes in an organisation” says Courtney Sapien, a recruiter at Big Assignments and Academ advisor.

Director of Knowledge Management

The person in this role works at an executive level, usually in larger more spanning organisations involved in data and information management. This role focuses more on the financial and business operation processes which revolve around knowledge management, rather than the crude works of knowledge management and its process specifically. 

Chief Knowledge Officer in Charge

This role is found again in bigger organisations who require multiple people to be involved and in charge of knowledge management, and so this befits a large salary for the span of work it is involved in. This role is dedicated entirely to ensuring knowledge management processes go off without a hitch.

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About the Author:

Elizabeth Hines is an online digital marketer and blog content writer at Top Canadian Writers and Simple Grad. She enjoys writing about digital content marketing and the use of social media in business development. She also writes for other online magazines and blogs, including Study demic.