This book is not for knowledge management experts and practitioners.
It is for those who have no previous background on knowledge management
but would like to know something about the subject. The purpose of this
book is to provide an introduction to the various elements of knowledge
management. It is meant for a wide audience of readers interested in gaining
some understanding of the basics of knowledge management. These include
the professionals in the private sector, the managers of corporations, the
business executives, as well as the government officials at various levels who
may have management, technical or engineering background but no exposure
yet to knowledge management. This book is meant to be their first book on
knowledge management.
This book has six chapters. The first chapter introduces the concept of
knowledge as differentiated from data and information. There is no attempt to
examine the various theories and postulates about how knowledge is created
or generated. The aim is merely to distinguish data from information, and
information from knowledge, and to introduce the reader to the two types of
knowledge that are of importance to knowledge management.
