Where Do Knowledge Audits Come From?

In this thoughtpiece, from my forthcoming book Knowledge Audits and Knowledge Mapping (Oxford: Chandos, 2016) I trace the origins of knowledge audits in the communication audits of the 1950s. Knowing the history of knowledge audits gives us access to the incredibly rich set of tools and approaches developed by organisational communications scholars and practitioners after the Second World War (and also, incidentally, those developed to support information audits in the 1980s and 1990s). The article also gives a framework for identifying different types of knowledge audits for different purposes. Feedback welcome!
Where_Did_Knowledge_Audits_Come_From.pdf

Posted by Patrick Lambe on 12/05/15 at 03:49 PM | Categories: Information & Records Management, KM Applied, KM Critiqued, Knowledge Audit | Permalink