Review of: WEB 2.0 implications on Knowledge Management

‘Web 2.0, implications on knowledge management,’ is written by Moria Levy the CEO and founder of ROM Knowledgeware a knowledge management firm in Reut, Israel. Levy holds the largest Knowledge Management firm in Israel, consulting and working with many medium and large companies and organisations throughout Israel. (“Company Employees”, n.d., para.4)
In this article Levy aims to look at and provide an understanding of Web 2.0 and the implications it has on knowledge management. Her main aim is to look at whether using Web 2.0 can produce a better integration of knowledge management in organisations and the general public.
Levy has set out a well informed, easy to understand and manage article that allows the audience to follow clearly what she wants to achieve and the findings she has come across due to her studies and research. Through this article Levy not only achieves her goal of studying Web 2.0 and how it has affected knowledge management but also provides a well informed article on what Web 2.0 is and how it came about.
Through providing the reader with a background of Web 2.0 and where it has risen from Levy allows her audience to gain a greater understanding of where Web 2.0 has come from and how it can have such a great impact on knowledge management today. Levy takes great measures to make sure her reader knows exactly how Web 2.0 functions and the many areas that knowledge management and Web 2.0 cross-over.
One of the most useful points Levy raises is through her table of a comparison of Web 2.0 and knowledge management tools and attributes. Through this table the audience is able to gain an understanding of how Web 2.0 and knowledge management cross over but also how they can help each other and what needs to be done to fix the gaps that may be found if we let Web 2.0 simply over-run knowledge management as it is known today.
Levy’s main argument throughout this article is that those involved with knowledge management need to embrace what is happening with Web 2.0 and allow the many tools and attributes to influence how knowledge management is being undertaken. Levy outlines how the gradual change can take place and how this change will allow many people to gain a great deal from knowledge management.
Levy provides a positive, yet careful outlook on how Web 2.0 is and will influence knowledge management. Through her well thought out work many people involved in the business will be able to gain a greater understanding on how Web 2.0 can be used to develop their companies and their line of work and how this can allow them to become more widely accessible to the general public. Levy claims that it is time to embrace what is happening through Web 2.0 and to allow it to change knowledge management for the better. Her article provides a large amount of information that is often lacking when studying other articles involving knowledge management and Web 2.0, therefore this article can be used to move forward in the relationship that is continually growing between Web 2.0 and knowledge management.
Levy, M. (2009). Web 2.0 Implications on Knowledge Management. Journal of Knowledge Management, 13(1), 120-134. Doi: 10.1109/13673270931215
Company Employees, (n.d.) Retrieved from: http://www.kmrom.com/Site-En/Members/CompanyEmployees.aspx?MemberID=0&P=278