The knowledge management puzzle: Human and social factors in knowledge management

“Knowledge management is often seen as a problem of capturing, organizing, and retrieving information, evoking notions of data mining, text clustering, databases, and documents. We believe that this view is too simple. Knowledge is inextricably bound up with human cognition, and the management of knowledge occurs within an intricately structured social context. We argue that it is essential for those designing knowledge management systems to consider the human and social factors at play in the production and use of knowledge.” (J. C. Thomas, W. A. Kellogg, and T. Erickson – IBM Research)

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