What is KM?
by Volker Weber
Knowledge comes alive in an organization when people learn to trust one another and seek out and build upon their capabilities and aspirations -- individually, across functions and with other companies.
— Charles Savage
Knowledge management is an oxymoron and could run the course of a fad. Knowledge innovation is fundamentally sustaining a collaborative advantage for the excellence of an enterprise, the sustainability of a nation's economy and the advancement of society.
— Debra M. Amidon
People do not manage knowledge; knowledge manages people.
— Alvin Toffler
Knowledge management is about the use of computer and communication tools to help people gather and apply their collective data, information, knowledge and wisdom in order to make better, quicker, wiser and more effective decisions.
— Gene Meieran
Knowledge Management is the transformation of knowledge into business—and learning the transformation of information into knowledge.
— Matthias Bellmann