Knowledge Management – Innovation and Positive Practices

Knowledge management represents one of the greatest challenges in the functioning of an organization. The approach implementation for information and knowledge management is particularly important for organizations where a high quantity of information is necessary for activities progress, also where access to information is problematic or simply when the organization wishes to structure available knowledge and distribute them to all employees. The fast and complex development of our companies clearly show that technologic, social or economic changes are tightly connected to the quality of the information available; more so they are connected to our ability to manage that information. This has lead, particularly in the last couple of years, to an increase in interest for knowledge management techniques and creation and transfer of good practices, these becoming equally important to both the private and public sectors. In the public sector, public agencies have discovered that knowledge management can help with the retaining of collective knowledge, so ensuring institutional continuity and continuous performances on their strategic objectives. Presently, driven by information technologies acceleration and by the value of collaboration networks, the real competitive differential factor – human skills – ensures market advantage.