PREPARING KNOWLEDGE MANAGER FOR 4TH INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION

PREPARING KNOWLEDGE MANAGER FOR 4^TH INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION

4th Industrial 

We’re on the cusp of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, or Industry 4.0. It’s quite different than the three Industrial Revolutions that preceded it—steam and water power, electricity and assembly lines, and computerization—because it will even challenge our ideas about what it means to be human.

It is stated that the Fourth Industrial Revolution will primarily affect the following four organizational areas:

• Customer expectations – how customers are served;

• Product enhancement – digital capabilities, durable and resilient, predictive maintenance;

• Collaborative innovation – new forms of collaboration;

• Organizational forms – new business models, different skills and talent.

In the third industrial revolution of those areas where supported and enabled by knowledge manager.

Due to the effect of forth industrial revolution to the organisation and the way in which knowledge manager conduct their task. As knowledge manager we should reflect on the manner in which we work. In the future data that was collected by the knowledge manager will be generated by the sensor enabled technologies and analysed by powerful business analyses tool that will inform decision making in the workplace.

In preparation to the forth industrial revolution ,knowledge manager will need the following to support forth industrial revolution.

• Identifying and leveraging the skills and competencies that robots cannot “learn”;

• Sourcing of relevant data and ensuring that data are clean prior to analyses;

• Ascertaining the relevance and the value of capturing and sharing experience;

• Social innovation and sustainability of knowledge;

• Social networks and empowering the global employee;

• Ensuring that devices are connected to the Internet of Things and that knowledge can be created from the connectedness of devices; and