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The knowledge audit
Author(s) -
Liebowitz Jay,
RubensteinMontano Bonnie,
McCaw Doug,
Buchwalter Judah,
Browning Chuck,
Newman Butler,
Rebeck Ken
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
knowledge and process management
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.341
H-Index - 44
eISSN - 1099-1441
pISSN - 1092-4604
DOI - 10.1002/(sici)1099-1441(200001/03)7:1<3::aid-kpm72>3.0.co;2-0
Subject(s) - audit , intellectual capital , knowledge management , business , knowledge value chain , personal knowledge management , organizational learning , computer science , accounting
One of the critical first steps in the knowledge management area is to conduct a knowledge audit. Some people view the knowledge audit as being the business needs assessment, cultural assessment, and an examination of what knowledge is needed, available, missing, applied, and contained. In the same manner that a manufacturing company will first inventory its physical assets, an aspiring ‘knowledge organization’ should also inventory its intellectual capital assets. This paper will focus on the third strand of the knowledge audit described above, namely determining what knowledge is needed, what is available and missing, who needs this knowledge, and how it will be applied. Then, a case study will be discussed where the knowledge audit instrument was used. Copyright © 2000 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.