KM FOR INDIVIDUALS, COMMUNITIES AND ORGANIZATIONS

: Today's work environment is more complex because we now need to attend daily to the increase in the number of subjective knowledge items. Knowledge management represents one response to the challenge of trying to manage this complex, information-overloaded work environment. Without being exhaustive in KM’ definitions, we highlighted the key attributes of KM and which benefits are provided by KM to individual employees, to com munities of practice, and to the organization itself.