Knowledge Management: A Growing Discipline

This paper presents the role of knowledge management in business, learning and research organizations. It is a need of the hour to big, medium, small and all kind of organizations to cope with the challenges of knowledge management in the new century. Tacit knowledge is a pivotal point of organizational learning and focuses on the role of tacit knowledge in the business, industry, research and learning organizations. Conversion of tacit knowledge into explicit knowledge and vice versa is the requirement of present and future industries and research organizations. Knowledge management is a strategy and shows a path how to face the global challenges in most accelerated information technology world. It gives a message – “If they don’t they won’t survive”.

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