Simulation and Knowledge Management: Separated but Inseparable?

For many decades, simulation modelling has been one of the most well known decision support techniques. Simulation related research and empirical work have been traditionally published in areas such as Operational Research or Management Science. In contrast, knowledge management as one of the latest change management approaches is mainly being researched by business, management and ever more by the IT communities. Although there is still a considerable perplexity about what knowledge management (KM) actually is, and there are numerous definitions of knowledge management available in the literature (Hlupic et al., 2002), a general consent is that knowledge management is related to generation, codification and transfer of knowledge in organisations in order to improve business performance and decision making.