This is a list of Knowledge management topics.

Types of knowledge management

  • Personal knowledge management - focuses on individual responsibility for learning, connecting, organizing and producing knowledge. This is closely tied to blogging, personal information management and branding.

Branches of knowledge management

  • Business intelligence

Focus of knowledge management

  • Knowledge

Sources of knowledge

  • Tacit knowledge
  • Collective intelligence
  • Corporate memory - a collection of best practices, heuristics, process documents and other texts that help define how a business operates. (related terms: organizational memory or group memory). Capturing, maintaining, and growing a knowledge base, selecting appropriate technologies, and motivating quality contributions are all key KM themes.
  • Intellectual capital - the intangible assets of a firm. These include competencies, culture and connections that enable and foster innovation, agility, awareness, adaptation and corporate survival. KM plays a role in mapping, recording, evaluating, stewarding, marketing and growing intellectual capital and knowledge assets.

Knowledge management operations

  • Data mining
  • Knowledge organization
  • Knowledge representation
  • Knowledge transfer
  • Knowledge translation

Knowledge management automation

  • Knowledge base
  • Knowledge graph
  • Knowledge-based system
  • Knowledge engineering
  • Knowledge management software
  • Business intelligence
  • Enterprise content management
  • Wiki software

The business of knowledge management

  • Customer relationship management
  • Intellectual capital
  • Knowledge economy
  • Knowledge intensive services
  • Knowledge intensive business services
  • Knowledge organization (management)
  • Knowledge enterprise
  • Knowledge sharing
  • Supply chain management

Participants in knowledge management

  • Knowledge worker
  • Chief knowledge officer
  • Virtual team
  • Communities of innovation
  • Community of practice
  • Community of interest

Knowledge management media

Knowledge management periodicals

  • Journal of Knowledge Management
  • Knowledge Management Research & Practice
  • U Toronto: http://www.fis.utoronto.ca/resources/inforum/kmrg/concept.htm
  • Emerging Knowledge Management Perspectives
  • http://www.insightknowledge.com/ - InsightKnowledge Inc., KM concepts and theories
  • Open Source KM Education, Consulting Methodology, Processes, Tools and Techniques
  • Jonathan Hey (2004): The Data, Information, Knowledge, Wisdom Chain: The Metaphorical link, published at Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission - OceanTeacher: a training system for ocean data and information management