Posted by Jefferey Bridges on October 19, 2001 at 05:09:44:

In Reply to: knowledge management posted by Rasha on October 18, 2001 at 22:50:40:

Here are some definitions of Knowledge Management that you will find in articles linked from this web site:

"Knowledge Management caters to the critical issues of organizational adaption, survival and competence in face of increasingly discontinuous environmental change.... Essentially, it embodies organizational processes that seek synergistic combination of data and information processing capacity of information technologies, and the creative and innovative capacity of human beings."

Source article:
Knowledge Management for the New World of Business)
http://www.kmnetwork.com/whatis.htm)

Above definition published and explained in the following journal articles:

"Deciphering the Knowledge Management Hype' in the Journal for Quality & Participation special issue on Learning and Information Management (July/August 1998), v21n4, Jul/Aug 1998, pp. 58-60.

"Knowledge Management for the New World of Business" in the Asian Strategy Leadership Institute Review, vol. 6, 1998, (Special Issue on Knowledge Management).

Executive Intelligence, the publication of Hewlett-Packard Executive Programs, August 1998 (Special issue on: Communicating the Business Value of IT to Your CEO)

Also, see how the above definition has been explained in the context of Information Strategy in the following article from Information Strategy: The Executive's Journal, vol. 16(4), Summer 2000, pp. 5-16 (Special issue on Knowledge Management):

Knowledge Management for E-Business Performance: Advancing Information Strategy to ‘Internet Time’)
http://www.kmbook.com/kmebiz/kmebiz.html)

Contrast the above definition with other following definitions:

'Getting the right information to the right person at the right time'

Source article:

Knowledge Management for the New World of Business)
ttp://www.cio.com/archive/enterprise/091599_ic.html)

Critiqued in the following CIO Magazine article:

'Does KM=IT', CIO Magazine, Sept. 15, 1999

Contrast with other defintions discussed and explained in the following article:

'Knowledge Management & New Organization Forms: A Framework for Business Model Innovation' in Information Resources Management Journal, Jan-Mar 2000, 13(1), 5-14

and reprinted in:

Knowledge Management and Virtual Organizations (Ed. Malhotra, Y.), Idea Group Publishing, Hershey, PA, April 2000, 2-19.

Source article available at:

From Information Management to Knowledge Management: Beyond the 'Hi-Tech Hidebound' Systems
http://www.brint.com/members/20120418/knowledgemanagement/

Table of definitions from the above article available at:

Knowledge Management: Definitions from Multiple Sources
http://www.brint.com/members/20120418/knowledgemanagement/knowledgemanagement_5.html

For relevant references cited in the table, see the articles listed above.

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