Knowledge Management in Practice

Chapter 14

“Big Knowledge!”: Knowledge Management and Big Data

A goal of knowledge management (KM) is to capture and share knowledge wherever it resides in the organization. Leveraging the corporate collective know-how will improve decision making and innovation where it is needed. The proliferation of data, information, and knowledge has created a phenomenon called Big Data. KM when applied to Big Data will enable a type of analysis that will uncover the complete picture of the organization and be a catalyst for driving decisions. In order to leverage an organization’s Big Data, must be broken down into smaller more manageable parts. This will facilitate a succinct analysis, which can then be regrouped with other smaller subsets to produce ...