In organizations often not only found within documents or data warehouses, but is also in organizational routines, processes, practices, and standards. What immediately makes clear the definition is that knowledge is not simple. It is a mixture of several elements, is a stream at the same time you have a formalized structure, is intuitive and difficult to capture in words or fully understand logically. Knowledge exists within people, as part of our human complexity and unpredictability. Although we usually think of definable and specific assets, knowledge assets are much more difficult to handle. Knowledge can be seen as a process (flow) or as a stock.
Knowledge is derived from information and the information is derived from the data. For information becomes knowledge, people must do virtually all the work. This transformation occurs through: Comparison. Consequences. Connections. Conversation. These knowledge-building activities take place within and between people. As found data in records, and information messages, we can gain knowledge of individuals, groups knowledge, or even in organizational routines. No doubt, the powerful new arm of business management, knowledge management together, the theory of information sharing have become the new factors of production of contemporary enterprises, whose novelty is that the more information is consumed, the richer it becomes; grows as more is used. These factors or new revolutions are moving towards a knowledge society, are shining a new concept of business and society based on knowledge. Business community and society in which progress and depends not only on machines and technological advances themselves, but from the knowledge of people.