Generations of Knowledge Management

Knowledge Management, new as it is, is changing. There are at least three accounts of how it is changing and about how we should view "The New Knowledge Management" (TNKM). One account, by Mark Koenig (2002), sees KM as a field that was originally driven by information technology, the Internet, best practices, and later lessons learned, and most importantly knowledge sharing. This theory sees a second stage of KM as about human factors, organizational learning, and knowledge creation viewed as the conversions among tacit and explicit knowledge. The third stage of KM is the stage of the arrangement and management of content through taxonomy construction and use, and like the first is also heavily biased towards information technology.