You may choose to approach this assessment in a variety of ways. For example, you might want to focus on issues in the organisation or challenges faced by organisations in starting KM initiatives,...

You may choose to approach this assessment in a variety of ways. For example, you might

want to focus on issues in the organisation or challenges faced by organisations in starting

KM initiatives, which could be resolved with appropriate process improvement or support

people learning with the involvement of technology based tools like intranet portals,

groupware, data mining and so on in knowledge management and take an overall

overview of knowledge management as a whole. For this you could consider using a

research tool to support like an information management questionnaire.  You might

alternatively choose to focus on one aspect of knowledge management, such as   Knowledge capturing and creation  knowledge sharing and dissemination or   knowledge acquisition and application
and use this as your basis for analysis.  You may want to study the application of a

framework as a solution and provide the necessary research study towards the same.
Additionally you would also need to provide the supporting link between systems thinking

and knowledge management.
You must provide an appropriate background of the concepts of knowledge management,

using literature in the proper manner, with accurate and complete references.  You should

provide a brief description of the situation you will be using for your critical appraisal.
These are both necessary conditions but are not sufficient.  You must then link the

concepts to the situation you are appraising and use the concepts to provide the

appropriate appraisal.

Appropriate research methods could be employed leading towards recommendations and

conclusions. Whatever you choose, you must justify your choices.