Knowledge Management in an Information Age Army

摘要

The widespread application of advanced information technologies has dramatically affected United States fighting forces. Senior leaders at all levels that came of age as principals before the technological revolution of the 90's have struggled to take full advantage of modern information technology. Information technology exploitation strategies have been further complicated by the now omnipresent Joint and Combined nature of our operations. Key leaders need to more fully embrace the comprehensive strategy already available to take full advantage of this explosion in capability. This work examines the Army's current knowledge management strategy and suggests that a consistent construct is required at the CORPS and Division level to fully exploit current information technology capabilities in a joint and combined environment. This construct is required to move our fighting forces beyond the simplistic incorporation of the latest information technology hardware and software to a more deliberate knowledge management strategy: the logical extension of the information age technology and network-centric operations to effective Knowledge Management. This organizational construct should be disciplined enough to resist the latest hardware/software solution of the day and agile enough to readily adopt innovative information technology solutions addressing critical organizational information sharing and knowledge management challenges.