新一代知识管理(What May We Expect)

资料简介：New Generation Knowledge Management: What May We Expect?
Karl M. Wiig, Knowledge Research Institute, Inc.
This article
is based on selected excerpts from Karl Wiig’s new book
People-Focused Knowledge Management
Introduction

During the last decades, the practice of Knowledge Managemen
t (KM)1 has become a central
management topic throughout most of the World. Globalization opportunities and pressure
s
coupled with World-wide communication have spread both the
need and understanding that
increased emphasis on personal an
d structural intellectual capital assets is a necessary
corne
rstone for competitive behavior in the Knowledge Economy. Howe
ver, KM still needs
extensive development – it is in its inf
ancy. Nevertheless, KM is already very valuable for those
enterprises who practice it deliberately
and systematically. During the last 15 years, KM has
changed
from one generation to the next through constant improvements
and new perspectives.
Resulting from new insights and practic
es a “New Generation Knowledge Management”
NGKM) is emergin
g with fresh objectives, methods, and results. Enterprises tha
t practice
NGKM pursue broader concepts and in other ways dep
art from earlier KM approaches by
understanding and exploitin
g underlying mechanisms, be they economical, social, psycholog
ical,
organizational, or technical. 2