BNET Business Dictionary
Business Definition for: Knowledge Management
- the process of acquiring, storing, distributing, and using information within a company. The information is generally held on a powerful database and distributed via a communications network.
- the coordination and exploitation of an organization's knowledge resources, in order to create benefit and competitive advantage
Additional Resources
- Knowledge Management is a Business Imperative
- Law is a knowledge-based profession. However, for many lawyers, knowledge management remains a narrow theoretical concept. To succeed at knowledge management, lawyers must take a broad view of knowledge management, and consider both the strategic and operational elements of knowledge management such as : 1. Knowledge management must be closely...
- White papers 2003-09-29
- Strategic Management Meets Knowledge Management: A Literature Review And Theoretical Framework
- In many organisations, proponents of knowledge management struggle to gain its acceptance by senior management. The rhetorical question 'Is knowledge management tasked with: managing the knowledge that an organisation has; or managing the knowledge that an organisation needs?' is posed to knowledge management practitioners. The answer to the question lies...
- White papers 2004-10-14
- How to Make Knowledge Management More Rigorous
- Although the knowledge management field is maturing, a great deal of hand waving and hype surrounds it. False promises and over-expectations are being created; many vendors are calling their products "knowledge management" tools even though they might simply be database, information management or document management tools; a dearth of rigorous...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Knowledge Management : Shaping the Profession
- Good companies have been managing knowledge for years, even if they didn't use that term to describe their activities. The people who were helping to implement the process were de facto knowledge managers even if they didn't have "knowledge" in their job titles. It is ironic that the emerging profession...
- White papers 2002-04-01
- What Knowledge Management Isn't
- People often equate knowledge management with other information systems or processes, such as CRM, document management, content management, or sales force automation. But, simply putting knowledge management is really about retrieving, acquiring, and adapting corporate knowledge. Hence, it becomes very essential for the knowledge management to be successful. Four best...
- White papers 2003-07-21
- Knowledge Management, CKO, And CKM : The Keys To Competitive Advantage
- To compete well in the emerging economy, it is imperative that firms improve the effectiveness of their knowledge processes. Knowledge management, the chief knowledge officer, and the certified knowledge manager are the tools. Article discusses these tools and enumerates a story where knowledge management saves lives, it highlights the use...
- White papers 2001-01-01
- Value Creation Through IT-Supported Knowledge Management?
- Although many consulting companies have introduced IT-supported knowledge-management systems, and proponents of the literature continue to advocate knowledge management as a key to competitive advantage in consultancies, many knowledge management systems have fallen short of expectation in companies that have adopted them. This paper reports such an empirical, explorative study...
- White papers 2003-02-28
- Trust And Knowledge Management: The Seeds Of Success
- Within the practitioner literature, trust has often been noted as a key component for the success of knowledge management practices; however, trust is a very complex construct that has many different facets and definitions. This paper reviews the trust literature to create an understanding of the different types and bases...
- White papers 2001-11-01
- Knowledge Management and Organizational Learning: Fundamental Concepts for Theory and Practice
- This paper investigates several issues regarding the nature, domain, conceptual foundations, and practical challenges of knowledge management and organizational learning. The paper first identifies and contrasts two fundamental philosophical orientations to knowledge management - the personal knowledge orientation and the organizational knowledge orientation - and illustrates the distinctive kinds of...
- White papers 2005-03-01
- Knowledge Management in Occupational Hygiene: The United States Example
- Knowledge management is an emerging field focusing on assessing the creation, transfer, and utilization of knowledge to address specific challenges. Generally, knowledge management has described efforts within and between companies to consider knowledge as a manageable asset. In this paper, the author suggests that occupational hygiene knowledge can be considered...
- White papers 2004-09-23
- Knowledge Management and Collaborations: Knowledge Strategy and Processes in the Knowledge Networks
- This paper focuses on knowledge management in organizations going beyond traditional boundaries, through collaborations based on intangible assets. The analysis has been focused on the implications generated from the blend between the network organizational structure and knowledge management. A theoretical framework is provided in order to evaluate the impact of...
- White papers 2004-07-02
- One Size Doesn't Fit All: Knowledge Management Systems and Knowledge Sharing Practices in Global Learning Organizations
- An increasing number of global organizations have adopted knowledge management practices and implemented worldwide knowledge management systems utilizing global communication networks and collaborative technology. The existing literature on knowledge management has focused on a common, firm-wide approach to knowledge sharing. Substantial differences exist, however, among the sub-units within many global...
- White papers 2005-12-08
- The Role Of Knowledge Management Governance In The Implementation Of Strategy
- Previous research has examined different understandings of the concept of knowledge management and from this, a multiplicity of approaches to implement strategies have been derived. This paper presents research that examines the role of governance as a framework to ensure the effective delivery of a knowledge management strategy. Knowledge management...
- White papers 2005-12-22
- Extending Knowledge Management Across The Supply Chains In The Construction Industry
- Supply chain management and knowledge management have emerged as two distinct business philosophies in the last decade. Both are making rapid inroads into the construction industry. The premise of this paper is that knowledge management would make it possible for all the trading partners in a supply chain to reap...
- White papers 2003-12-10
- Process Oriented Knowledge Management: A Service Based Approach
- Knowledge Management evolved to a serious management discipline that aims to integrate in the orchestra of existing management approaches. This paper introduces a new viewpoint in knowledge management by introducing KM-Services as a basic concept for Knowledge Management. This paper discusses the vision of service oriented Knowledge Management KM as...
- White papers 2003-07-02
- A Scorecard For Supporting Enterprise Knowledge Management
- Enterprise knowledge management is becoming a critical component of competitive success. Managers must en-sure that they can successfully generate, leverage and reuse knowledge assets in their organisations. In this view, they must seek to develop an environment that promotes effective knowledge management initiatives. Self-assessment scorecards can help managers and decision-makers...
- White papers 2003-09-24
- Achieving Closure Through Knowledge Management Strategy
- Case studies of knowledge management practices are often conducted in organizations where the aim is to manage knowledge for future operational improvements. What about knowledge management for organizations with limited life-spans that are preparing for closure? Such organizations are not common but can benefit from knowledge management strategy. This case...
- White papers 2003-12-01
- Knowledge Management for [E-]Business Performance
- Within the last few years, the topic of knowledge management has gathered a lot of interest in the corporate sectors. Although there is no commonly agreed upon definition of knowledge management, companies, governments, institutions and organizations are demonstrating an increasing interest in the topic. The key argument of this article...
- White papers 2000-07-01
- Knowledge Management: It's About Engaging Your Culture, Not Changing It
- It's been said that major business change will not work unless the culture also changes. Of course organizational culture will not change unless the business is transformed first. Despite an organization's efforts to train newly acquired/hired employees in change management concepts, establish methodologies and frameworks to guide employees through...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- The Face of Knowledge Management : A Status Report
- Knowledge Management starts from a simple premise: The critical resource that determines competitive advantage in today's economy is knowledge. Consequently, the same kinds of tools and strategies that companies once devoted to optimizing the use of natural resources, capital and labor in the old industrial economy now must be applied...
- White papers 2003-01-01
