History of Knowledge Management

  • The World Brain

    Created by Wells, it representes “a universal organisation and clarification of knowledge and ideas” (Wells 1938, xvi). The WB is selected, well organised, kept up to date and created value.
  • Knowlege Worker

    Drucker was the first one to use this term.
  • ARPANET

    The ARPANET is launched and it allowed the scientific community to communicate and exchange date with each other more easily.
  • ARPANET

    The ARPANET was launched and it let the scientific community to communicate and exchange date with each other more easily.
  • Knowlege engineering

    McGraw and Harrison-Briggs saw knowledge engineering as a process that involves gathering information, domain familiarization and analysis and design efforts.
  • Learning Organization

    Senge focused on this concept and used it as an organization that can learn from pat experiences stored in corporate memory systems.
  • KM boom

    Book as well as conferences and consortia about knowledge management were being developed and the field picket momentum
  • Transference

    The node were transferred to the Internet and World Wide Web.
  • Chapparal Steel

    Dorothy Barton-Leonard documented this case and rule it as a knowledge management success story
  • Process of knowlege

    Nonaka and Takeuchi studied how was knowledge produce, used and diffused inside organizations. They also studied knowledge's part in innovation.
  • Knowledge Management needs

    Carla O’Dell conduced a cross industry benchmarking study focused on knowledge managements needs. Such as: transfer of knowledge, costumer focused knowledge and as a business strategy, personal responsibility, intellectual asset and innovation and knowledge creation.
  • 24th World Congress on Intellectual Capital Management

    KM gurus united to pick up the KM torch. Here it was also discussed that knowledge management should be an academic discipline, providing a more formalized training for future practitioners.