Knowledge Management can be thought of as the process of collecting, organizing,
classifying and disseminating information throughout an organization, so as to make it
purposeful to those who need it. Knowledge Management refers to policies, procedures and
technologies user for operating a continuously updated linked pair of networked databases.
M concerns organizing and analyzing information in a institutions computer databases.This
knowledge can be readily shared throught a
institution ,instead of languishing in the department where it was created inaccessible to
other readers.It involves identification of categories of knowledge needed to support the
overall institutions strategy, assessment of current state of the firms knowledge and
transformation of the current knowledge base into a new and more powerful knowledge
base by filling knowledge gaps.
Knowledge management combines indexing , searching, and push technology to help
institutions organize data stored in multiple sources and deliver only relevant information
to users.