Knowledge Auditing and Mapping: A Practical Approach

The purpose of this paper is to provide Knowledge Management Practitioners with a simplified and activity-based Knowledge Audit process.  Knowledge audit is a process to check on an organization's knowledge `health', before the organization starts with their knowledge management initiative. The Knowledge Audit focuses on the critical business objectives specifically in a business-related environment, but may be applied to other forms of organization with some adaptation.

Knowledge Audit helps in recruitments needs i.e., knowledge acquisition, the learning/training needs, and the knowledge base requirements to achieve organizational goals. 

This paper describes the form to represent the audit process and its advantages, as well as the mechanism to reuse the information gathered from it. The design of the proposed ontology, the elements to be presented from knowledge audit, the way in which they can be represented with the help of the ontology, and their potential reuse for the development of applications are shown.