How is knowledge management different than the business management taught in graduate schools of business?
It takes a comprehensive approach to the knowledge and information assets of an organization. It includes intellectual capital as part of an organization’s assets and part of its balance sheet. It recognizes that the marketplace has become global, increasing competition and leading to better quality and more efficient means of production. What are the disciplines involved in effective knowledge management? Another area where education in knowledge management differs from business school curricula is the disciplines and subjects involved. In addition to such typical business curricula topics as decision support systems or change management, areas of concern for knowledge management include: cognitive science (for how employees acquire and process information); library and information science (knowledge organization, indexing and access); information storage and retrieval systems; technical writing; effective communication and consensus-building among stakeholders; document engineering (
