Konzepte des Wissensmanagements als eine Reaktion auf Individualisierungsprozesse in Unternehmen

Der Artikel plädiert dafür, auch als Einzelperson Wissensmanagement zu betreiben und schlägt dazu vier einfache Prinzipien vor.

The aim of the paper is to discuss a new subject called personal knowledge management and to compare it with the better-known concept information literacy.

The paper concludes that compared with the definitions of information literacy personal knowledge management
highlights two elements. Firstly, it emphasizes that the individual learns how to structure the information.
Secondly, it underlines the influences of the communication for the identification of information. We
can find track of both elements in the definitions of information literacy, but often in an implicit way. The course of personal knowledge management may be of interest for many libraries today. Generally, libraries
have been teaching their users in information seeking. Without

The term knowledge work has been used for decades, but to date there is not much understanding what knowledge workers do and how this work can be improved. This paper contributes to the development of our theoretical understanding of knowledge work by exploring use of weblogs for professional purposes: as personal knowledge repositories, learning journals or networking instruments. We draw on the results of a weblog adoption study to explore knowledge worker activities and to propose a framework for analysing knowledge work.

Improving the productivity of knowledge workers is one of the most important challenges for companies that face the transition from the industrial economy to an economy based on information and knowledge (Drucker, 1999). However, most "knowledge management" efforts have failed to address this problem and focused on information management instead. This paper briefly explores the failure of traditional knowledge management to adress the problem of knowledge worker productivity and argues that a deeper understanding of knowledge work is necessary to improve it.