A special issue on knowledge and competence management: Developing Enterprise solutions

Knowledge Management (KM) initiatives promote the management, i.e. the creation, storage and sharing, of knowledge assets within an organization. The practical focus of this special issue is to bring together researchers, professionals and practitioners to present recent developments on the knowledge and competence management areas. KM focuses on techniques of managing a common base of organizational knowledge that allows organizational groups and functions to coordinate their efforts and share knowledge across time, function, discipline and business activities. In addition, knowledge may be geographically distributed and stored in a variety of different representations, e.g. tacit knowledge in managers’ minds, and structured information in distributed databases.