Knowledge Management Terms

Knowledge Generation
Knowledge generation includes all activities which bring to light knowledge which is "new," whether to the individual, to the group, or to the world. It includes activities such as creation, acquisition, synthesis, fusion, and adaptation.

Knowledge Condification
Knowledge codification is the capture and representation of knowledge so that it can be re-used either by an individual or by an organization.

Knowledge Transfer
Knowledge transfer involves the movement of knowledge from one location to another and its subsequent absorption.

Knowledge Management Tools
Knowledge management tools are technologies, broadly defined, which enhance and enable knowledge generation, codification, and transfer.

"Generation, codification, and transfer all occur constantly, so management itself does not create these actions. The power of knowledge management is in allowing organizations to explicitly enable and enhance the productivity of these activities and to leverage their value for the group as well as for the individual."