Managing knowledge security

This short paper aims to help in understanding how to manage the tension between knowledge sharing and intellectual property protection.

The paper combines narrative and analysis.

Understanding how to manage the tension between knowledge sharing and intellectual property protection should be a critical goal of the knowledge management community. Challenges include calculating return on investment, characterizing risk, and managing the transience of knowledge through systems, processes, and partner organizations.

The paper illustrates how this tension is key to understanding how to manage knowledge in a highly competitive, continually innovating, constantly learning, global environment.