The Big Picture – Compliance and knowledge management in today’s law department
A compliance program, at its core, represents a knowledge-management challenge. Quite a few of the elements of an effective program (certainly as measured against the standards contained in the Sentencing Guidelines for Organizational Defendants) center around the capture and dissemination of information, including data. The creation of policies on important topics, uncovering possible compliance failures, training employees and others about the standards against which their behavior will be measured and other aspects of a compliance program all revolve around the management of knowledge.
KM reality check: what really works?
Realizing the greatest impact and benefit from knowledge management initiatives requires centering them around the predispositions of the ultimate users. Rendering the initiatives easy to use, availing oneself of the proactive capabilities of technology, and minimizing the effort to identify and capture knowledge already resident within the system will ensure the greatest return on the effort to design and implement a knowledge management protocol.
Knowledge Management: What’s the fuss about?
Why has knowledge management garnered such attention in the legal community? What benefits might one enjoy from implementing an effective system for the capture and reuse of data and knowledge?
