This week, I'm going to talk about how I apply my knowledge in the Knowledge Management Life Cycle. As we learned, there might be some different versions of that life cycle, and today the one I'm going to use is consisted of 6 steps, which are captured, created, codified, shared, applied, and finally we have reuse.

The specific topic I'm going to share is about joining Business Competitions.

1. Captured

From someone that knows nothing, I started capturing the knowledge from watching my seniors in competitions and they would also give us trainings related to this field. Furthermore, they would also share a lot of real life experiences they got in joining competitions, and also provided some tips and tricks to be good in performing.

However, to bee good, this is not enough for sure. To be able to improve my presenting skill, I would watch some tutorials in Youtube. There are great tutorials where the experts will tell us what is exactly a good presentation and public speaking.

Last but not least, books and Google are also a great help of mine, when I got a specific topic that i'm not familiar with, of course all I need is getting to know about it first.

2. Created

After capturing the knowledges, of course when all of them are mixing together with my current knowledge, idea and experience, I am able to produce / think of new things. It might be a strategy, solution, a concept or whatever it is.

But those new things I created in my mind can be very scattered and unorganized, it might pop up sometimes, but gone forever after that. That is why they are really forgotten easily.

3. Codified

To avoid the scattered/ forgotten knowledge, the best way is to codify them. There are a lot of things we can do for this step. For instance, I would prefer choosing taking notes. Sometimes, if there are things that will be used repeatedly, I will also prepare them in direct presentation files. So when I'm n another competitions, I only need to copy it and this makes things faster and easier to be done.

By doing those things, I am able to have a chance for myself to organize my knowledge in a more structured way.

4. Shared

Sharing is the best things to get more. To share one's knowledge, there are so many ways. For instance, I will normally join FGD and discuss with others, In a discussion, we are not only the one share our knowledge, but we are also the one absorb other's knowledge. So it's a win-win condition.

Besides, I will sometimes be invited to share my experience to the juniors from Information System. This is also a good chance for me to share things that I know, or even the sharing process can occur as simple as when I'm talking to other people about business case competitions.

5. Applied

When I'm joining a competition, it can be said as the best time for me to apply my knowledge. Because I need to combine all things / stuff I learned and implement them for achieving something great, which is winning the competitions. And this is also the besti time for me to really remind myself all knowledge I once got.

6. Reuse

Those knowledge I have, I'm able to reuse them in my daily life. Like it improves my analyzing skill, decision making skill and also increases my confidence. Furthermore, I am also helped in my college life, like those knowledge can be used in classes' presentation.