DEFINITION:

Management of organisational information and knowledge helps creating business value and generating a competitive advantage. It therefore helps to create and retain greater value from core business competencies. As such knowledge management is the discipline dedicated to more deliberate means of people creating and sharing knowledge to make the right decisions and take the right actions.
It combines the processes of capturing, distributing, and effectively using knowledge. (Ref. Davenport 1994).
Making and storing static representations of a dynamic environment is done in information management.

(Source: ACARE Domain 619)

SUBDOMAINS:

1. Knowledge gathering
2. Knowledge representation
3. Knowledge retrieval
4. Product data management systems
5. Ontology
6. Competence management
7. Web technology
8. Semantic web
9. Data mining