About Knowledge Management

The beginning of the new millennium finds the world in a process of inter-connectivity increasing, of data flows acceleration and of temporal and national borders compression. The necessary power for these transformations at global level is represented by the technologies from the information and communication IT&C domain. The social structures transformation through knowledge and knowledge management considered as an essential resource of economical increasing and as the main factor of production, constitutes a reason and in the meantime a sufficient justification for defining the modern advanced societies as „societies of knowledge”. In a society based on scientific knowledge, the old competitivity measurements, like the manpower cost, like the structure of the appropriation and the infrastructure, are over fulfilled as importance and signification by new economic-social indicators, such as knowledge, knowledge management, knowledge capital etc., key indicators that raise the market value of firms.