Strategic Knowledge Management for Futuristic Organizations

In today’s global economy, capital moves speedily, technology spreads quickly and goods can be made in low cost countries and shipped to developed markets. Managing knowledge in such a phase of continuous change is an imperative function for ‘smart’ organizations. Amalgamation of different technologies is indispensable to carry out various tasks of a ‘learning organization’, yet these technologies show inadequacy for building knowledge networks and communities of practices within such organizations. Knowledge Management for the future organizations has many implications and impacts on the way our existing educational, socio-cultural, economical, religious, governmental processes work. We need to work on the technologies of knowledge creation in addition to managing it. Many connectivity, document management, concepts management, project management, employee’s portals and so called knowledge management tools and techniques are available. Ontology is another wonderful technique which is probably the ultimate choice for managing knowledge in virtually all possible environments. Community computing, community networking, collaborative work, digital meeting places, electronic education, social informatics, spatial information processing, virtua