Knowledge Management Centre
Definition
Knowledge management (KM) is the name of a concept in which an enterprise consciously and comprehensively creates, shares, organises and analyses the knowledge and information in terms of resources, documents and people skills. Turning personal information and experience into collective knowledge.
INTRODUCTION
WHO WE ARE
- The role of Knowledge Management is to assimilate and gather the firm’s knowledge, to organise it and make it readily accessible to lawyers; in essence to manage A&K’s knowledge. This includes both:
- Explicit knowledge which is available through searches and inquires such as legislation, cases and commentary, as well as the firms legal documents and notes from past matters; and
- Tacit knowledge which is an accumulation of all the years of experience, training and learning that resides within each lawyer.
WHO WE ARE
STAFF PROFILES
STAFF MEMBERS
Head of Knowledge Management and Performance Improvement
Head of Knowledge Management and Performance Improvement
Elaine Clark Kehew
Fridah Ndinda
Training Coordinator
Document Administration Officer
Stella Mumo
Document Administration Officer
Jennifer Waititu
Librarian
Library Technical Assistant
Solomon Kimani
Library Technical Assistant
WHAT WE DO
01.
WHAT WE DO
DOCUMENTATION
02.
Training and Development:
03.
INNOVATION
04.
LIBRARY AND RESEARCH
KM is responsible for :
- keeping the Laws of Kenya up-to-date.
- keeping and circulating Kenya Gazettes and supplements of new legislation.
- researching on all legal queries sent to KM.
- maintaining the Know-how data base.
- sending out in the News business articles appearing in the daily newspapers every morning.
- proposing and acquisition of library material for library users. Library materials being books, and subscription to databases.
TRAINING
AND DEVELOPMENT
- KM is responsible for developing and implementing the training schedule for A&K. The schedule includes induction trainings, continuous learning sessions, professional courses and external training sessions.
- KM’s role in training also includes monitoring numbers of hours staff have spent attending both external and internal training sessions, as well as ensuring that the standard and quality of the session is maintained.
- Based on the above, KM are also responsible for arranging for attendance of CLE seminars and monitoring the number of points accumulated therefrom.
CONT...
Some of the recurrent trainings that KM organises includes:
1. Bi-monthly lawyers meeting:
2. Pupils breakfast
3. Departmental training
4. ALN pupil induction
DOCUMENTATION
- KM is responsible for the formatting of documents as well as creating document templates for AKI
INNOVATION
- The innovation team is currently working on:
1. Clause library – maintaining a library of all negotiated clauses for template documents
2. A&K 'incubator hub'
3. Document automation – this involves an automation of the main transaction documents of each department (SHA, SPA, Competition forms, RE docs)
4. One page DD
5. Skills Matrix – having a matrix that outlines every lawyer’s areas of experience and areas of interest
WHAT TO SEND
- Opinions, memorandums and notes.
- Internal training materials
- Hand-outs (link to PowerPoint if relevant)
- Speaker notes (link to PowerPoint if relevant)
- Training plans or other materials
- Minutes from the Lawyers Meetings
- In each of the lawyers meeting minutes are taken by the assigned individual and sent to KM for filing.
WHAT TO SEND