The liberation of intellectual capital through the natural evolution of knowledge management systems

This research empirically examines the importance of knowledge management (KM) processes to overall business intelligence (BI) and organizational performance. It looks at the innovation dynamics and their related knowledge processes, needed to leverage one´s intellectual capital. It also explores the fact that many organizations are reliant on the knowledge and the competence of individual organizational members. Consequently, information systems to support knowledge management (KM) are considered to be vital tools in order to achieve competitive advantage. In this paper, we discuss the role of innovation processes and network dynamics, in terms of integrated knowledge networks, which offer viable options for leveraging innovation both as an interactive process, and knowledge processes for creating BI. This is due in part, because, they encompass a number of organizations, people and resources and the relationships between them. Integrated knowledge networks are supported by an architecture that combines organizational and technological elements, that is the innovation processes and network dynamics. This allows for the design of an information system that supports the innovation process, in terms of its diversity, absorptive capacity, and social relations. This paper proposes that an architecture specification that functionally describes the information system for a knowledge network can be designed by using an online content management toolset.