Knowledge Management: A Tool and Technology for Organizational Success

Chatterjee, Sidharta and Samanta, Mousumi (2022): Knowledge Management: A Tool and Technology for Organizational Success.

Abstract

There are many tools and techniques that are effectively deployed in managing organizational knowledge. In this brief paper, we delineate some of the tools of organizational knowledge management. We believe that the practice of knowledge management is itself a tool and an efficient technique for organizing organizational knowledge more effectively. On this regard, this paper contributes to our further understanding of what organizational knowledge is, and how they should be proficiently managed that would contribute to organizational success.

• Item Type: MPRA Paper
• Language: English
• Keywords: Knowledge management, Organizational learning, KM tools, organizational success
• Subjects: O - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth > O3 - Innovation ; Research and Development ; Technological Change ; Intellectual Property Rights > O31 - Innovation and Invention: Processes and Incentives; O - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth > O3 - Innovation ; Research and Development ; Technological Change ; Intellectual Property Rights > O32 - Management of Technological Innovation and R&D; O - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth > O3 - Innovation ; Research and Development ; Technological Change ; Intellectual Property Rights > O34 - Intellectual Property and Intellectual Capital

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