KEY ACTIVITIES
The key activities of knowledge management are to gather, analyse, store and share knowledge and information within an organisation. To this end, an organisation needs to implement a service knowledge management system (SKMS), as represented in a basic form in Figure 20.2.
The SKMS is a set of tools and databases that are used to manage knowledge and information. It includes the configuration management system, as well as other tools and databases. The SKMS stores, manages, updates and presents all information that an IT service provider needs to manage the full lifecycle of IT services.
The SKMS is underpinned by the configuration management system (CMS), the configuration management databases (CMDB) and other service management databases. In its wider context it also holds knowledge from other sources such as: