Knowledge management initiatives: learning from failure

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Journal of Knowledge Management

ISSN: 1367-3270

Online from: 1997

Subject Area: Information and Knowledge Management

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Title:	Knowledge management initiatives: learning from failure
Author(s):	John Storey, (John Storey is Professor of Human Resource Management at The Open University Business School, Milton Keynes, UK.), Elizabeth Barnett, (Elizabeth Barnett is a Research Fellow at The Open University Business School, Milton Keynes, UK.)
Citation:	John Storey, Elizabeth Barnett, (2000) "Knowledge management initiatives: learning from failure", Journal of Knowledge Management, Vol. 4 Iss: 2, pp.145 - 156
Keywords:	Company failures, Knowledge management, Learning
Article type:	Case study
DOI:	10.1108/13673270010372279 (Permanent URL)
Publisher:	MCB UP Ltd
Abstract:	Large numbers of organizations are taking great interest in the idea of knowledge management and many are launching knowledge management initiatives and programmes. A large proportion of such initiatives will fail. Yet, despite the injunctions to “learn from failure”, little detailed attention has been paid to why and how these apparently popular initiatives run into difficulties. The purpose of this article is to examine, in some unusual detail, a significant example of a failed knowledge management initiative in order to analyse what went wrong and to identify the key learning points.