Knowledge Management ('KM') is comprises a range of practices used by organisations to identify, create, represent, distribute and enable adoption of what it knows, and how it knows it.
There are ten Shifts in Knowledge Management :
1. From a Dimension of Other Disciplines to a Discipline in its Own Right
2. From Strategic Initiatives to Routine Practice
3. From Inward Focus on Knowledge Processes to External Focus on Knowledge Businesses
4. From Best Practices to Breakthrough Practices
5. From Knowledge Codification and Databases to Tradeable Knowledge Assets.
6. From Knowledge Processes to Knowledge Objects
7. From Knowledge Maps to Knowledge Navigators/Agents
8. From Knowledge Centres to Knowledge Networks
9. From Knowledge Communities to Knowledge Markets
10. From Knowledge Management to Knowledge Innovation.