Heard enough about knowledge management in your organization? Getting tired of it?

Maybe it’s time you learned how to uninstall it.

If you’re looking to dump knowledge management, Dr. David Vaine’s guide should provide you with all of the information you need.

While it’s quite funny, the points made are also incredibly true (thanks to Patrick Lambe for posting this on Green Chameleon).

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The points about knowledge sharing ring particularly true. Putting a knowledge sharing policy in place in any organization that puts strict limitations on employees’ ability to share knowledge acts as a deterrent to that very same knowledge sharing — and it’s more important to realize your organization’s true limitations than it is to promote a culture of sharing that doesn’t actually exist.

The description of knowledge management as being endemic to an organization is an interesting take — if that’s the case, the document or content management systems put in place are essentially symptoms of an organization’s desire to reinvent its culture.

Yet as stated in the video, most of the time people just keep going about doing things the old ways and only make a token effort to embrace to new ways of doing things.

So in all seriousness, are there cases where knowledge management actually does more harm than good? Where all the policies, systems and mandates just confuse and frustrate people? I’d be interested to hear your thoughts on this.