Tips to maximize your knowledge

1. Knowledge about customers
2. Knowledge about effective processes & good/best practice
3. Knowledge about the competency level & capabilities of the workforce

Hence systems are designed around utilizing knowledge in these ways, depending on how it is most effective to an organization.
The main types of knowledge management systems are-

1. Creating intranet- an online network within the organization
2. Creating data warehouses and other ways of storing knowledge from various sources
3. Creating communities to share knowledge- online or otherwise
4. Creating decision support systems that compile data analysis and have other different methodologies of  decision making
5. Creating internal expertise mapping by having directories of communities, yellow pages by experts etc
6. Creating Groupware, which is essentially creating notes using mostly email to share knowledge