Knowledge management and the internet [Guest Editor's Introduction]

R. Dieng
2000 IEEE Intelligent Systems and their Applications  
Rose Dieng, Inria WHAT DO WE KNOW AND HOW can we manage our knowledge assets to fulfill our organizational objectives? These are important questions for an organization. Knowledge management should enhance individual, group, and organizational learning; improve information circulation; and even support innovation. It aims to capture and represent an organization's knowledge assets to facilitate knowledge access, sharing, and reuse. In doing so, it attempts to address these possible goals:
more » ... lizing on individual know-how in a collective knowledge; improving newcomer learning and integration; disseminating best practices; improving corporate work processes, product quality, and productivity; and reducing new product design times. We must tackle these complex problems from at least the human, socio-organizational, and technical viewpoints. A corporate or organizational memory is an explicit, disembodied, persistent representation of crucial knowledge and information in an organization, in order to facilitate their access, sharing, and reuse by members of the organization, for their individual or collective tasks. 1,2
doi:10.1109/mis.2000.846280 fatcat:mxgvuf6sujfhdm7kuzwxcytw54