Knowledge management has emerged as a map for all strategy that has been in use since 1995. Knowledge management is considered as a revolution that helps in the re engineering of the business processes. It helps in quality management and overlaps with the competence management and also for organization learning. It helps in gaining credibility from daily news and through the internet sources. The main emphasis of the knowledge management is information systems. In the recent systems the focus has turned from information systems to organized development, capital management, along with competence management. In the end of 1990 social learning, systematic innovation, change management, and organizational sense making. It also helps in making prominent themes in the field of knowledge management. It is said that the future of knowledge management is very bright and the power of knowledge revolutionize management. There is no limit for organization knowledge and helps in innovation and organizational learning.

Organizational constitution helps in redefining the rights and the responsibilities of all the knowledge workers. It is constantly debated about whether the goals of knowledge management should be restructured based on the present educational systems. In order to address all these questions a person should try and discover the knowledge sources and where it is heading in the present conditions. The origin of the knowledge management is from four disciplines. It emphasizes on the importance of the economy which is knowledge intensive. These disciplines will undergo a lot of transformation which will amplify between themselves in an indirect way. These disciplines can also be characterized as organizational processing of information, organizational cognition, organizational development, and business intelligence. It has its starting point in the computer technology and information services. It is also said to have influence from fields like organizational innovation, research, and sense making. It also has a major influence from the human resources management.

Business intelligence

Information system is perceived as the base for early initiatives for knowledge management. It was observed that organizations that managed knowledge management used to implement strategies like categorizing, distribution and searching. A lot of competitive pressure has spurred which has signified the importance for competitive analysis. Big corporation companies have build intelligence units for knowledge management. There has been a lot of focus on competitive intelligence based on strategic analysis of the external information. The processing experts used to solve technical problems of organizational knowledge by using computers. The competitive intelligence is basically about understanding, synthesizing, and dissemination of relevant information. Intellectual work will be assigned to the specialists. The work will be facilitated through the external database on online sources. It was understood that perfect information will result in the overload of information.

Competitive intelligence is the responsibility of the top management that will be responsible for decision making, expansion of the computer networks and organizational intelligence. It helps in the exchange of valuable information that will be distributed among the members of an organization. The technology has played a vital role in expanding knowledge management and has brought a wider spectrum to it. The internet was a very big revolution and has increased public consciousness. Knowledge is in a sense free and helps you to get a better living.

Information processing

There have been a lot of initiatives to find the right software package which will be helpful to make knowledge management possible. This technology holds bright future and is expected to change the phase of knowledge management and increases its credibility. The idea of knowledge often leads a lot of theoretical discussions. The software packages hold a lot of information that is considered as concrete and very real. This belief is followed strictly and is not questioned. The progress of knowledge management is measured by checking the software license. There have been a lot of computer based initiatives that can be used to deal with the problem of knowledge management.

It is very important to impart the knowledge in the right way and this requires proper channel system that will impart the knowledge in the right manner. Artificial intelligence has come into play and holds a major role in the corporate knowledge system. A lot of new approaches have been adopted that helps in the representation of the knowledge in different forms which can be easily processed by computers. The processing power of computers has increased which has helped in the proper processing of knowledge. Expert systems have been marketing the solutions which help in alleviating problems like organizational downsizing and critical competencies which include Feigenbaum, McCorduck etc. The representation of knowledge techniques is developed for the expert systems which has a generic value and helps in the proper classification of the human knowledge. The whole idea of knowledge management is a very huge concept and it requires major steps for its successful exchange. The concept of knowledge management holds a bright future and has the scope of further expansion.