Making KM groups responsible for Information Management risks there being no KM at all

We are a literate society, and so we do pass on knowledge in written documents and information products. There is also much to be learned from the study of work product documents that can generate knowledge and insight. Often in organisations Information Management (IM) has fallen to KM groups to perform, but the sheer volume of IM work risks pushing out other, really distinctive KM activities such as learning from experience, knowledge sharing and best practices. In KM we like IM because we also value retrieval, but we’re far more concerned with information that is being applied rather than simply retained as records, and the information products we’re interested in are more likely to be domain knowledge models derived from experience rather than all the instances of the many document types IM is concerned with retaining. Have an IM department so your KM department can do KM.