Relationship between knowledge and innovation

         Here's Ron's some comments about knowledge and innovation APQC's Knowledge Management Blog: Knowledge and Innovation.
         In my opinion, KM will not always benefit to innovation. It will depend on what's your purpose to promote KM. For example, you want to spread some best practice from one branch to other branches. In this process, one important factor is that you need to difine a good template and every branch need to follow up the template. Deploy time and efficient is the most important factors. Maybe some adaption can be allowed, but anyway modification on basic structure will always be forbidden in general. In this case, innovation in some degree, isn't welcome, even not allowed. Also, Dinesh has some comments on this point.
         While for some other cases focused on innovationn, just like Ron mentioned, KM will act as a different role.
         So, I tend to split KM to two types, oriented to operation and oriented to innovation. We need to define different strategy for them.