Information Technology Applications in Knowledge Management

The development of information technology plays a crucial role indevelopment of knowledge management concepts. In a note Beckman (1999,h.1.2) significant events that marked the milestone development of managementknowledge is the organization in 1980 DEC (Digital Equipment Corporation) and Carnegie Mellon University to develop an expert system for set the computer hardware configuration. Since then much research toward the utilization of technology to utilize the knowledge stored in the human head. But six years later new management terms knowledge formally introduced by Dr. Karl Wiig in a speech ILO conference (UN labor agency). As mentioned earlier, that the application of management knowledge can be supported by information technology. Therefore, component next in the application of this knowledge management is a technology in which case is related to the use of Information Technology (IT). The term Information Technology is a combination of two basic terms of technology and information. Technology can defined as the implementation of science, applied science is synonymous with. Meanwhile, the common sense information is something that is expressed by humans or byextracts from the facts.
Technology is not just limited to the hardware (equipment) and software (program), but also include human and specified goals, values which is used to make a choice implementation, and assessment criteria used to decide whether humans control technology or not.
Which include information technology are among others:
(1) telecommunications,
(2) optical communication systems,
(3) video-tape systems and video discs,
(4) computers, including computer vision, environmental data and expert systems,
(5) mikrobentuk,
(6) voice communication with the help of computers,
(7) network data,
(8) electronic mail, and (videoteks and teletext.)