J.UCS Special Issue: I-Know 01 - International Conference on Knowledge Management, Part 2

Knowledge management has become an organizational imperative for all types of corporate and governmental organizations. A key objective is to apply knowledge which resides within an organization to achieve the organization's goals most efficiently and cost-effectively. To implement knowledge management in organizations, different aspects from different disciplines have to be taken into account. Organizational aspects are required to define which knowledge should be captured and the way it is captured. A new knowledge-friendly culture has to be developed to support knowledge sharing and creation and to overcome the employees' fear that sharing of knowledge means loosing power. Finally, information technologies play a key role as enabling technology for knowledge management