Knowledge Management: The Czech Situation and Approach

Recently, knowledge management (KM) has become a very popular business concept. Unfortunately, there are still problems connected with the incorporation of KM into particular organisations in the Czech Republic (CR). These problems can be identified at all knowledge levels, which are a supranational level, national level, organisational level and management of knowledge level. Examples of problems at an organisational level are a lack of utilizable methodologies of KM implementation in the CR that are described in sufficient details, different perception of KM by different people, where KM is mostly substituted by information technologies, etc. As a reaction to some problems described in this contribution, a new methodology of KM implementation was developed at the Faculty of Informatics and Management at the University of Hradec Kralove. This paper briefly describes the situation of KM in the CR and basic features of the methodology KM-Beat-It.