Managing Knowledge-based Value Systems

Has Knowledge Management (KM) an identity and a future? The process of differentiating KM both as a business practice and a discipline is in a reflexive situation: it is happening amidst a major transformation of established criteria for the social recognition of a knowledge field. Awareness of this fact by stakeholders in the systematic and sustainable evolution of KM may lead to a conscious management of its current and future identity. An attempt to develop a systemic perspective of the field of Knowledge-based Value Systems at the Center for Knowledge Systems (CKS), an R&D unit at Instituto Tecnologico de Monterrey in Mexico, is introduced. The CKS operates mostly through contracted projects in the areas of organizational learning, intellectual capital and value-based management.