Knowledge management is like teenage sex. Everybody talks about it. Everybody thinks everyone else is doing it. In reality few are doing it and even fewer are actually doing it well - Anon
Knowledge management' is an oxymoron, since the challenge is to manage something that is intangible, in people's heads and is context related - KMt:The Relabelling Continues, 1997
Knowledge is what makes companies unique even within the same industry. We are just beginning to discover how to value knowledge in our organisations and the fact that knowledge has no value until it is put to use. (Power of Innovation Capital, Debra Amidon, No. 43, Sept 2000).
Knowledge is power, which is why people who had it in the past often tried to make a secret of it. In post-capitalism, power comes from transmitting information to make it productive, not from hiding it. - Peter Drucker. "The Post-Capitalist Executive," in Managing in a Time of Great Change
Knowledge is like a garden: if it is not cultivated, it cannot be harvested - Guinean saying
Knowledge is embedded in people, and knowledge creation occurs in the process of social interaction - Karl Erik Sveiby
Knowledge is a pale and bloodless thing that does not generate achievement - philosopher Will Durant, 1885-1981
Knowledge is a fluid mix of contextual information, values, experiences and rules. It originates and resides in the minds of knowers - Larry Prusak
Knowledge is a capacity to act - Karl-Erik Sveiby
Knowledge exchange doesn't happen between strangers; people are like dogs, you have to pass 'the smell test' - Larry Prusak