Knowledge management

process of creating, sharing, using and managing the knowledge and information of an organization

knowledge that is difficult to transfer to another person by means of writing it down or verbalizing it

Data Information Knowledge Wisdom Hierarchy

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conversational process

dissemination of information, skills or processes

conceptual framework used to aid decision-making

process of collecting information that a person uses to gather, classify, store, search, retrieve and share knowledge in their daily activities

model of knowledge creation

American diplomat (1918–2008)

accumulated body of data, information, and knowledge created in the course of an individual organization's existence

discipline of engineering concerned with the principles and practice of product and service quality assurance and control

subset of enterprise content management

American academic

collective set of facts, concepts, experiences, and knowledge held by a group of people

mechanism for distributing knowledge resources

the sum of, and interactions between, information-oriented organisations