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Chapter 7





                           Managing knowledge





                               Businesses need to gather, organise, share and analyse their
                               knowledge.  Knowledge resides in human capital (for example, the
                               knowledge and skills of employees and suppliers) and structural
                               capital (for example, intellectual capital and client information).




                             Knowledge management systems include:





                 1.  Groupware              Helps teams work together.  For example, online
                                            calendars and address books.


                 2.  Intranet               Allows internal information sharing.



                                            Allows internal information sharing but is also extended
                 3.  Extranet
                                            to suppliers and customers.

                 4.  Data

                    warehouses               Enable information to be extracted and analysed to
                    and data                 meet users’ needs.
                    mining


                 5.  Document
                    management
                    and content              Support the creation, modification and storage of
                    management               knowledge in a digital format.
                    systems





                  Illustrations and further practice

                  Now try TYU 1 from Chapter 7.


                  Read illustration 2 from Chapter 7.


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