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knowledge management
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knowledge management

An umbrella term for making more efficient use of the human knowledge that exists within an organization. Knowledge management is the 21st century equivalent of information management. It is essentially an industry trying to distinguish itself with specialized groupware and business intelligence (BI) products that offer a wide range of solutions.

The major focus of knowledge management is to identify and gather content from documents, reports and other sources and to be able to search that content for meaningful relationships. See data mining, information management, groupware and BI software.



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The theoretical rationale for knowledge mapping is based in part on Ausubel's assimilation theory (Ausubel, 1968), which suggested that learners think about concepts as well as the relations among them when they process information.
Bill Dietrick, in an article about knowledge mapping, describes it as, "What information exists inside my organization, and where is it located?
Knowledge Mapping follows this same paradigm but with more options.
 
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