People-focused knowledge management

Knowledge Management Activity: Distinct knowledge-related
changes to manage knowledge such as analyzing a situation using
KM analysis tools, creating and implementing KM capabilities,
practices, and initiatives, or engaged in KM practices, utilizing or
operating KM capabilities.
Knowledge Management: The systematic, explicit, and deliberate
building, renewal, and application of knowledge to maximize an
enterprise’s knowledge-related effectiveness and returns from 
its knowledge and intellectual capital assets. The field covers 
deliberate and systematical analysis, synthesis, assessment, and
implementation of knowledge-related changes to attain a set of
objectives and to check that KM activities are carried out appro-
priately and meet their objectives. It comprises activities needed to
facilitate direct knowledge-related work. KM includes fostering the
“knowledge asset management mentality” required to create,
maintain, and utilize appropriate intangible capital.
Knowledge Mapping (KMap): Methodologies followed to generate
knowledge maps.
Knowledge Model: A model that take many forms. It may be docu-
mentation of domain knowledge on paper, in a computer-based
knowledge base, or a videotaped “show-and-tell” for performing
a particular task. Knowledge models may be represented using a
formal “knowledge representation”; it may be in natural language
as a narrative, a set of diagrammatic representations, and so 
forth.
Knowledge Professional: A professional who focuses on optimal cre-
ation, organization, availability, and use of knowledge in a domain
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or within a business function. Knowledge professionals have an
applied understanding of task environment analysis, various KM
approaches, business use of knowledge, and support of knowledge
workers with automated reasoning and other means. Knowledge
professionals may be trained in cognitive sciences, artificial intelli-
gence, philosophy, and management sciences.