THE INFORMATION/ KNOWLEDGE FLOW WITHIN A KNOWLEDGE ORGANIZATION. IT’S ALL ABOUT PEOPLE - A CASE STUDY OF THE GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR.

Abstract

The purpose of the paper is to show how DLR plans to organize knowledge along processes and people within its organization. Personal knowledge exchange and information technology are both important and have their own field of application. One important outcome of the analysis is the clear need for transparency of the interfaces, and the chance for the employees to publish their knowledge to other employees easily. An overview of the project named “Establishing an integrated knowledge management system " will be given.