Special Issue: I-Know 03 - Hot Spots in Knowledge Management

The increasing complexity of both the environment in which companies operate and of their internal workings combined with an increasingly high pressure for innovation make knowledge and its efficient management central to business success today. The management of knowledge is more than directly managing knowledge as a resource. It is more concerned with providing knowledge-friendly environments in which knowledge can flourish and develop. The development of such environments can be addressed from many different perspectives, which makes knowledge management a very interdisciplinary field of research. It concerns human resources management, organizational development and information technology management to mention just the three most important fields. This special issue on hot spots in knowledge management offers the reader a broad overview of the leading edge developments, technologies and applications in knowledge management. The issue serves two distinct purposes: (1) It may help shaping the reader’s thinking in the way required for a successful implementation of knowledge management in an organization; (2) It may serve as a stimulus for the reader’s research in knowledge management. The following 13 papers fall in four categories: (1) Knowledge Management in Business (2) Knowledge Mining (3) Knowledge Representation (4) Convergence of Knowledge Management with other Domains