The purpose of this paper is to attempt to demystify knowledge management.
This paper looks at existing literature.
The paper finds that, in simple words, knowledge management involves three things, namely, knowledge creation, knowledge dissemination and knowledge implementation. It is a comprehensive concept and information systems and human resource management are part of it.
There are serious implications of playing with the concept of knowledge management for researchers and practitioners and by focusing on and bringing it into functional domain like IT; the concept is forced to under perform.
Knowledge management is a strategic management concept drawing from various disciplinary areas.
This paper put things into perspective and clears the confusions and complexities around the concept of knowledge management.
