Knowledge is power and knowledge management is the key to your company’s success. Knowledge management has become more complex in recent decades. What will knowledge management look like in the future? A globally networked economy has led to a rapid increase in knowledge capacity. Today, but also in the future, optimal knowledge management is only possible with the use of the right tools and software designed for this purpose. These tools should be designed to fulfill the following four points:

Facilitate cooperation

Collaboration is essential to successfully steer a company into the future. Knowledge management software must foster and facilitate this collaboration. Information and data collected by individuals, teams and departments must be accessible and viewable by the entire company. This way everyone can benefit from the expert knowledge of others. The creation of data silos must be avoided. This can only be achieved by connecting the individual information and data sources.

Recognizing relevance with knowledge management of the future – what knowledge is important?

A globalized, networked world brings with it a tsunami of information. Managing and processing this flood of information is a challenge that must be met in the future. Information relevance plays an important part. In the future, it will be important to identify and provide information that is relevant to the individual. Today, users already expect fast, precisely tailored answers. This demand will only increase in the coming years and decades. One tool that is gaining in importance in this context is content delivery. With content delivery based on the Sherlock Information Platform, it is possible to provide exactly the information that is needed via a portal.

Workflows are becoming increasingly transparent

Knowledge management is already an important part of every company. In the future, its transparency will become even more important. A major step towards a successful future is the establishment of platforms that make workflows more transparent. This has a major impact on supply chain management. In order to benefit from sustainability, it is important to connect the departments involved and to map data and information transparently along the value chain. This can only be achieved if you open up the data silos of the various parties involved. This is the only way you are able to benefit from shared knowledge and are thus to improve workflows. Read more about the topic here: Sustainable supply chain management

A successful knowledge-based collaboration

In a globalized, networked world, no company can survive without good relationships with other companies. In the future, the basis of this togetherness will be shared knowledge more than ever before. At the same time, these knowledge-based relationships can help increase customer trust, loyalty and profitability. Effective knowledge sharing is the future of society and the economy.