Success in an increasingly competitive market depends on the quality of knowledge which organisations apply to their major business processes. For example, a supply chain depends on knowledge of diverse areas, including raw materials, planning, manufacturing, and distribution. Likewise, product development requires knowledge of consumer requirements, new science, new technology, and marketing. Knowledge is broadly defined as credible information that is of potential value to an organisation. Knowledge management (KM) is a function of generation and dissemination of information, developing a shared understanding of information, filtering shared understandings into degrees of potential value, and storing valuable knowledge within the confines of an accessible organisational mechanism.

Individuals need to survive and grow in changing and sometimes turbulent organizational environments, while organizations and societies want individuals to have the knowledge, skills and abilities that will enable them to prosper and thrive. Personal Knowledge Management (PKM) is a means of coping with complex environmental changes and developments: it is a form of sophisticated career and life management. Personal Knowledge Management is an evolving concept that focuses on the importance of individual growth and learning as much as on the technology and management processes traditionally associated with organizational knowledge management. This book looks at the emergence of PKM from a multi-disciplinary perspective, and its contributors reflect the diverse fields of study that touch upon it. Relatively little research or major conceptual development has so far been focused on PKM, but already significant questions are being asked, such as 'is there an inherent conflict between personal and organizational knowledge management and how best do we harmonize individual and organizational goals?' This book will inform, stimulate and challenge every reader. By delving both deeply and broadly into its subject, the distinguished authors help all those concerned with 'knowledge work' and 'knowledge workers' to see how PKM supports and affects individuals, organizations and society as a whole; to better understand the concepts involved and to benefit from relevant research in this important area.

Innovations of Knowledge Management highlights the broad range of topics that fall under the term "knowledge management," thus emphasizing the large role knowledge management plays in organizations. As a compilation of some of the most recent work in the field, the included chapters truly present innovations in how organizations can and should manage their knowledge.

This book analyzes dynamic relationships among the disciplines that have contributed to the development of knowledge management. It focuses on establishing relationships between knowledge management and other disciplines such as information management, organizational learning, innovation management, and strategic management. It debates the origin and development of knowledge management, thus providing a clear and conceptual understanding of the field. This, in turn, will help readers adopt better approaches to solve knowledge management problems.

Knowledge and Technology Management in Virtual Organizations: Issues, Trends, Opportunities and Solutions presents a collection of the most recent contributions in the areas of organization, knowledge, and technology management in the context of virtual enterprises. This book contains important and in-depth information on four dimensions: semantic, managerial, technological, and social. The semantic dimensions covered in this book are ontological and organizational approaches, concepts, organizational models, and knowledge management models. In respect to managerial dimensions, this book covers process management, integration management, relationship management, process integration, knowledge management, technology integration management, and information integration. Knowledge and Technology Management in Virtual Organizations: Issues, Trends, Opportunities and Solutions presents the technological dimension by explaining the infrastructures and technologies to support technology and information integration standards and protocols. Lastly, this title highlights the social dimension, including human resources management, human resources integration, social issues, social impact, social requirements, and communities of knowledge.

KM is an IT subject. Right&? Wrong! Knowledge and its management is a prerogative of everyone. Since the magic of information transforming itself into knowledge which in turn becomes information at the next level, thus continuing the eternal cycle of knowledge quest has always fascinated people throughout the ages. This book is about celebrating knowledge for its own sake and emphasising that unless it is shared, there would be no new knowledge. Also knowledge per se can never be costed or priced, it is only the process of acquiring it, storing it and disseminating it that can be expressed in economic terms. Knowledge is free and that is the way it has always been or will ever be. The book has evolved as the author went about understanding the esoteric concept of KM and sought to unravel what it really stood for. Key Featuresv A comprehensive look at KM as a subject. First of its kind - a resource book on KMv Clear view of knowledge, the way of its creation and the manner of its managementv Classical approach to KMv Modern approach to KMv KM modelsv KM tools and their applicationv The mystique of how information becomes knowledgev Datamining and datawarehousing explainedv KM and its application in the corporate sectorv Case studies galorev Most comprehensive list of further readings, extensive group and individual exercises for students of KM

In today's competitive and global business environments knowledge is recognized as one of the most important strategic assets for modern organizations. With improvements in IT-based systems for handling knowledge, KM is becoming an essential theme of research into business success as well as a subject of new business initiatives. Knowledge and Business Process Management provides a unique and timely compilation of a multi-disciplinary views related to knowledge and business process management.