Knowledge Management

This thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Bachelor in Business Administration of East West University, Dhaka, Bangladesh.This study on Know ledge Management authorized by Mr. Hasan Shirazi, the Supervisor of BUS 498, was submitted on May 4, 2005. The report, on Knowledge Management, is completely based on the materials from web sites, KM definition s and concepts fr-om secondary materials like books, articles, and journals. I have the keen interest to cover different aspect of KM strategies, values and so many other relevant areas but due to proper data about KM and its practices and lack of time, I have to limit my report to centripetal. In this report, the discussion is stared form the knowledge and its categories. After that, I defined the knowledge management, historical background of KM, generations of KM, and some principles of KM. Then comes the secret ingredient of KM. In the next part, the report would focus into different components, importance and benefits of knowledge management. It also focus on the return on investment of KM. by following that, it represents the value of knowledge management, challenges and implementations of knowledge management. Then it depicts the Bangladeshi perspective of knowledge management. At last, generated some recommendations from different point of views.Therefore, this project work paper covers all these important aspects of Knowledge Management that might be fruitful for learning and doing further er knowledge management research