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Applying Knowledge Management
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Applying Knowledge Management

by Ian Watson
January 2003
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
250 pages
6h 2m
English
Morgan Kaufmann
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1.4 What Is Knowledge? 7
1.4 What Is Knowledge?
In order to manage something you must be able to recognize it.
Knowledge does not exist in isolation though. It is not something that
can be picked up or locked in a company vault. Indeed, some philoso-
phers believe that knowledge is a human construct that cannot exist
outside the mind of a person. It is worth considering the relationship
between knowledge and concepts like data and information. Computers
have been managing data (as in database management systems) for
decades. You are also probably familiar with the term
information sys-
tems and perhaps have even heard of knowledge-based systems.
Data, ...
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ISBN: 9781558607606