Objectives of knowledge management

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The author would like to thank the team at Pearson Education in Harlow, in particu-
lar Catharine Steers, David Harrison, Eileen Srebernik, Kelly Miller, Tim Parker, Angela 
Hawksbee, Annette Abel and David Hemsley for their help in the creation of this book. I 
would particularly like to thank the reviewers who undertook detailed reviews for the 
second, third and fourth editions – these reviews have been important in shaping the 
book: Magdy Abdel-Kader, University of Essex; Poul Andersen, Aarhus Business School, 
Denmark; Michelle Bergadaa, University of Geneva, Switzerland; Bruce Bowhill, University 
of Portsmouth; Yaw Busia, University of Middlesex; Hatem El-Gohary, Bradford University; 
Janet French, Barking College; Andy Gravell, University of Southampton; Ulf Hoglind, 
Örebro University, Sweden; Judith Jeffcoate, University of Buckingham; Britt-Marie 
Johansson, University of Jönköping, Sweden; Matthias Klaes, Keele University; Mette P. 
Knudsen, University of Southern Denmark; Tuula Mittila, University of Tampere, Finland; 
Barry Quinn, University of Ulster; Gerry Rogers, EdExcel Qualifications Leader; Chandres 
Tejura, University of North London; Ian Watson, University of Northumbria; Steve Wood, 
Liverpool John Moores University.
Thanks also to these reviewers who were involved at earlier stages with this book: Fintan 
clear, Brunel University; Neil Doherty, Loughborough University; Jean-Noel Ezingeard, 
Henley Management College; Dr Felicia Fai, University of Bath; Lisa Harris, Brunel 
University; Sue Hartland, Gloucestershire Business School at Cheltenham and Gloucester 
College of Higher Education; Mike Healy, University of Westminster; Eric Van Heck, 
Rotterdam School of Management, The Netherlands; Dipak Khakhar, Lund University, 
Sweden; Robert Proops, University of Westminster; Professor Michael Quayle, University 
of Glamorgan; Richard Riley, University of Central England; Gurmak Singh, University of 
Wolverhampton; John Twomey, Brunel University; Gerry Urwin, Coventry University.
publisher’s acknowledgements
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figures
Figure 1.10 adapted from Nova Spivack blog posting. How the WebOS Evolves? 9 February, 2009, http://
novaspivack.typepad.com/nova_spivacks_weblog/2007/02/steps_towards_a.html, Nova Spivack, www.
novaspivack.com; Figure 3.9 from http://www.google.com/about/datacenters/gallery/index.html#/
locations/hamina/2, Google, Photo credit: Connie Zhou/Google, AlamyCelebrity/Alamy; Figure 4.7 
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able), European Commission (2010), © European Union, 1995–2012; Figure 4.9 from Blogpulse (no 
longer available) (www.blogpulse.com), © 2013 The Nielsen Company; Figure 4.11 from From Inter-
national E- Economy: Benchmarking the World’s Most Effective Policy for the E- Economy, report pub-
lished 19th November, London, www. e- envoy.gov.uk/oee/nsf/sections/summit_benchmarking/$file/
indexpage.htm, Crown copyright; Figure 4.13 from Report summary, http://www.gartner.com/it/
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Financial Times Prentice Hall, Harlow