Integrated knowledge management as the future strategic success factor?

Information as well as the generation of new knowledge through the employee s define the company's position in the competitive market. With globalisati on, no company that surpasses a critical size is able to extract, to filter and to combine the information only through its individual employees and, simultaneously, make the information accessible to all employees throughout the world in the form of organizational knowledge. Herein lies the potenti al of transnational information and communication systems (TICS) as well as the further development of knowledge management systems that constitute a corporate turntable of information and knowledge inside a new network organ ization. The following article discusses a comprehensive knowledge manageme nt concept, that assigns the highest value to the employee as a knowledge s ource and integrates, at the same time, the components technology, qualific ation, organization and strategy.