Knowledge Management: An Emerging Phenomenon

It is unchallenging fact that knowledge is the driver of productivity and growth of any organizations. Therefore, it is essential for all organizations to give emphasis on how to manage its organizational knowledge. Knowledge Management is a discipline that promotes an integral approach to identifying capturing, retrieving, sharing, and evaluating an enterprise’s knowledge asset. This paper deals with the emerging phenomenon of knowledge management, its characteristic features, problems relating to KM process and what Library and Information Professionals at best can do in order to achieve an organizational goal using the KM weapon