Knowledge management in the industry based on the use of data-mining techniques

The current emphasis in theory and practice of knowledge management (KM) is on attempts to understand knowledge creation, transmission, storage and retrieval. Data mining (DM) is intended to provide support in the complex data rich but information poor situations. In the paper we argue that data mining can make a significant contribution to a knowledge management effort. Our goal is to show how data mining techniques can be used for building organizational knowledge, which would lead to a better performance. Finally, case study is given to show data mining techniques using in knowledge management of corporation.