4th Conference on Professional Knowledge Management - Experiences and Visions

In today's business world, the ability to deal with knowledge is the factor that differentiates successful companies from others, e.g. in product development or recognizing market opportunities. Professional Knowledge Management helps to determine knowledge needs, to identify available knowledge and make it transparent to others, to develop or to acquire new knowledge, to distribute knowledge, to apply or to reuse knowledge as well as to measure the value of knowledge. Knowledge Management is a combined set of organizational design, social interventions in business culture, as well as development and application of information technologies. The forth conference Professional Knowledge Management - Experiences and Visions in Potsdam, once again provides a broad and integrated overview on the state of the art of Knowledge Management in science and practice. It is key to the conference to connect scientists from various scientific backgrounds and to share experiences from interdisciplinary perspectives from various applications.