Jean-Michel Saussois,

professor from ESCP-EAP,
OECD consultant

   

« We are now entering a production phase where bits and pieces of knowledge need to be coordinated. This represents the entire problem »

 

 

« We are part of an economy which is conscious that knowledge is becoming its pricipal resource. Economists are discovering as a consequence that learning, individually or collectively, is becoming the key process for economic growth. »

 

Jean-Michel Saussois defines lknowledge management in the following way : « The first generation is the one of data processing, with the powerful help of computing tools : for example, marketing will use enormous data bases cocerning consumers to produce the unexpected correlations. […] Today's phase is rather the one of organising and sharing tacit knowledge. The question is to build organisations which learn in a permanent way, so they become lively production sites and offer an intermingling exchange of what cannot be codified and what can. »

 

Source : « Organiser le partage du savoir », Sciences Humaines, hors-série nº32, Paris, mars 2001

See: www.jeunesdocteurs.com/fplr/61/09.html [in french]