Research On Development & Implementation Of Distributed Knowledge Management System

The 21^st century is an era of knowledge, knowledge is said to be particularly important. Knowledge and information have become the economic primary raw material and its most important outcome. Under increasingly competitive pressure, enterprises try their best to better manage their knowledge. During the last years, concept of knowledge management (KM) has gained increasing interest. The emerging field of knowledge management addresses the broad processes of locating, organizing, transferring and more efficiently using knowledge and expertise within an enterprise. An enterprise's and its employees' knowledge is regarded as the most important corporate capital in the arising global information society. Knowledge management therefore aims towards improving an enterprise's ability to acquire, develop, preserve, distribute and use knowledge. .However, the research results towards knowledge management are not very perfect. According to the current implementing status in the fields of knowledge management, the author believes that knowledge management theories, knowledge management tools and the methods for implementation are three main parts to be improved for an enterprise wanting to implement knowledge management. This dissertation puts emphasis on these three parts and the content is divided into seven chapters.In the first chapter, the main contents of the whole dissertation are introduced summarily. The origin of knowledge management is described; the definition of knowledge management and its importance are discussed; the status of our country's knowledge management implementation is introduced; the significance and structure of the dissertation are addressed.In the second chapter, the theories of knowledge management are extended. Firstly, the definition of personal knowledge management and organizational knowledge management is introduced; secondly, the theories and methods of personal knowledge management and organizational knowledge management are put forward; last, the relation of personal knowledge management and organizational knowledge management is analyzed and how to promote the cooperation of personal knowledge management and organizational knowledge management is explored.In the third chapter, distributed knowledge management system is designed. Distributed knowledge management system is good at cooperation of personal knowledge management and organizational knowledge management. Firstly, the system function framework is designed; secondly, every function module is designed and the layout is given; thirdly, database and data file design is given.