Bolstering Knowledge Management Systems with Appreciative Inquiry

Both Knowledge Management and Appreciative Inquiry attempt to amplify human and organizational capacities by leveraging the best of each. Whereas knowledge management systems aim to help identifying the substantive organizational knowledge in its broadest sense and leveraging it to benefit the organization and its stakeholders, the appreciative inquiry methodology is also about the search for the best in people, their organizations, and the relevant world around them. In their root cause, both knowledge management and appreciative inquiry "involve systematic discovery of what gives life to a living system when it is most alive, most effective, and most constructively capable in economic,

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2004
• Where: ECIS
• Authors: Michel Avital
• Keywords: Appreciative Inquiry, Appreciative Inquiry Attempt, ECIS 2004, Information Technology, Knowledge Management