A project management knowledge portal can play an integral role in how an organization successfully executes initiatives, serving as a dynamic, collaborative space where project leaders and teams draw on the accumulated lessons learned, experiences and wisdom of their peers and mentors.
The term Knowledge Management (KM) is often misused and has confused many about what KM is all about. The objective of KM in an organization is to capture knowledge and information from the business activities and store it in a place where employees can access and use it. This is called knowledge capture and reuse. Capturing knowledge and reusing it is the essence of knowledge management. Knowledge sharing takes place everyday in any organization, but often without employees knowing about it. For the layman, knowledge management is experiential information-sharing through conversations, meetings, telephone calls, training sessions, email exchanges, web collaboration and so on. It has its roots in training, collaboration, reporting, lessons learned documents and data warehousing. Tying together all these elements to achieve greater benefits for the organization builds a successful KM program.
The broad knowledge required and the ability to deal with diverse stakeholders makes the project manager’s job a complex one. Project managers have a range of processes and tools to support