Knowledge Management Tools in Romanian Companies

Abstract

KM tools are available for all knowledge activities: assimilation, comprehension, and learning of the information by individuals who will then transform data and information into knowledge. Knowledge is strictly linked and connected to the individual (or group) who creates it, which may cast doubts on the availability of information systems tools to effectively support KM. Thus the visible part of knowledge, what the literature calls explicit as opposed to the tacit dimension of knowledge, is only information regardless of the amount of the other individual knowledge embedded into it. This paper presents results of an exploratory study on Romanian companies aimed to provide an overview on knowledge tools in terms of reasons to implement them, problems and advantages encountered during their use or knowledge activities they are most suitable for.

Keywords

• knowledge
• management
• km tools