Effective organisations

Impact objective 1. Organisations are more effective in mobilising evidence and internally generated knowledge

How will we know a change has occurred?

• Organisations make active use of Knowledge and Library Services (KLS) expertise and value added services in mobilising evidence and organisational knowledge.
• Decisions are routinely informed by KLS provided evidence and best practice information.
• Tools, techniques and processes are used to capture and share organisational knowledge effectively.
• KLS staff are competent to articulate and deliver knowledge management effectively as part of everyday practice.

How might we demonstrate this?

• Work with the executive team and across the organisation to identify needs and priorities.
• Implement an Action Plan to make better use of knowledge as an asset with the organisation or across the system.
• KLS provide evidence and best practice information to decision makers.
• Promote research enquiries; literature searches; synthesis and summaries; horizon scanning and briefings; alerting services to decision makers.
• Promote information products and knowledge sharing tools and techniques to develop awareness to decision makers.
• Individual librarians and knowledge specialists complete appropriate training and continuing professional development.