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This 32 page paper is written in five parts. The first part looks at what is meant by knowledge management, how this correlates with organization learning and the role of information technology. The second part of the paper considers how information technology and intelligence software can help a business and what choices may be available. The third part of the paper considers arguments for free anti-vires software and why a company should sponsor free software for commercial, moral and social reasons. The forth part of the paper looks at how and why implementation of systems, such as ERP, may succeed or fail. The last paper of the paper considers the role of systems development lifecycle and the use of unified modelling language (UML). The bibliography cites 28 sources.
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past, wisdom is of the future." (Vernon Cooper). Knowledge management is not new, but the level of importance has received more attention
and increased over the last decade. Knowledge is more than information, it is defined as "the state or fact of knowing" (Dictionary.com, 2005), this indicates the need for understanding the
relevant and context of information so that it is a useful format. Many texts which are now used by business strategists focus on the use of knowledge management and it
is these texts that give us the clue to how and why knowledge managing is becoming more important. Levinson (2005) is keen to point out that information alone is
not knowledge not all information will have value, the kept to knowledge management is to use information and intellectual resources, such as intellectual capital in order to create knowledge that
can then be used. R. Gregory Wenig takes a similar approach and both Wenig and Levinson are in agreement with the
quotes as to be of value the knowledge need to be developed into a form there it is able to add value to an organisation, in effect become wisdom. Wenig
looks at how knowledge is gained and then used (KMF, 1996). Knowledge it is argued is gained from experience as well as the collection of information, the experience may be
the companies own experience, or that of others (KMF, 1996). Thomas Bertels also states that this needs to be a constant renewal to make user knowledge is accurate and up
to date and circumstances change and as such so does the relevant valuable knowledge (KMF, 1996) Wenig makes the link between the need
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