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At the risk of being glib, knowledge management technologies are about delivering the right information to the right people at the right time. This statement is oft repeated - but what does it mean? In our view, it can be understood as the following elements:
Delivering - this potentially involves multiple formats, including web pages, databases, documents; multiple modes of access including mail delivery, web search and 'agent' or 'push' delivery of personalized information; and multiple channels - desktop and laptop PCs, hand-held devices, and data-enable mobile telephony services.
Information - this is relevant data, structured information or documents, filtered according to role or preference, and pitched at an appropriate level for the context inhabited by the user. We make a distinction between information and 'content', which is a word particularly (but not exclusively) associated with Internet or intranet publishing.
People - increasingly not just employees, but also the wider community of people and organizations that communicate with the enterprise such as customers, suppliers, partners and other stakeholders.
Time - recognition that different information technologies have a different time basis, and as such are appropriate for different purposes (e.g. document management systems and web pages - interactive and instant at the point of delivery; email or news/discussion groups - essentially 'time-shifted' or asynchronous; structured databases and online chat - instant and 'online').
As we have repeatedly emphasized, only people can know
