Knowledge Management : Current Issues and Challenges

This scholarly discussion of managerial challenges details the most recent research on how organizations can better create, share, and exploit knowledge. Spanning the business and public service context, the information provided covers practical issues such as measuring returns, establishing trust, and integrating technology. Also discussed are knowledge management systems, Internet support, and information systems development. Author Biography: Elayne Coakes is a senior lecturer in business information management at the University of Westminster. She is the author of Socio-Technical and Human Cognition Elements of Information Systems , The New Sociotech , and Knowledge Management in the Socio-Technical World . The fundamental managerial challenges at the start of the 21st Century centers on how organizations create, share and exploit knowledge. Only managers and consultants with a deep understanding of Knowledge Management issues will be able to address the challenges of innovation and change that the knowledge era is bringing. Knowledge Management: Current Issues and Challenges strives to bring the most recent research and findings on this vital topic to the forefront in order to address the existing and upcoming challenges surrounding Knowledge Management. The fundamental managerial challenges at the start of the 21st Century centers on how organizations create, share and exploit knowledge. Only managers and consultants with a deep understanding of Knowledge Management issues will be able to address the challenges of innovation and change that the knowledge era is bringing. This book brings recent research and findings on this topic to the forefront in order to address the existing and upcoming challenges surrounding Knowledge Management Topic maps is an ISO standard, which has been established as an answer to the problem of coherent representation of relations between topics (or idea) and associating those topics with actual documents (topic occurences).