Knowledge management is a concept applied in the organizations, which it looks for to transfer the knowledge and the existing experience between their members, so it can be used like a resource available for others in the organization.

Usually the process implies techniques to capture, to organize, to store the knowledge of the workers, to transform it into intellectual assets that give benefits and that can be shared.

Today, the information technologies allow counting on that tools support the management of the Knowledge in the companies, Supporting in the harvesting, the transference, the security and the Systematic administration of the information, Along with the Design Systems to aid to make the best use of Knowledge.

In detail, one talks about to the tools and the designed techniques to preserve the availability of the carried out information by the dominant individuals and to facilitate the decision making, as well as to reduce the risk. It is a market of software and an area actually of the consultancy, related to disciplines such as competitive intelligence. A particular subject of the administration of the knowledge is that the knowledge cannot be codified easily in digital form, as the intuition of the dominant individuals that comes with years of experience and of being able to recognize the diverse landlords of the behavior that anybody with less experience cannot recognize.

The process of Knowledge Management, also known in their early stages of development as "corporate learning" or "organizational learning", has mainly the following objectives:

The transference of knowledge has always existed as a process in organizations. Informally through discussions, meetings, retreats, etc., and formally through apprenticeship, vocational training and training programs. As an emerging business practice, knowledge management has seen the introduction of the principal officer of knowledge, and the establishment of corporate Intranets, wikis, and other practices of technology knowledge and information.