KM, which has evolved over the past several years, stresses the importance of using KM systems to enhance knowledge production in organizations, and not just knowledge sharing or integration.
Big Data has become ubiquitous in modern society. It challenges state-of-the-art data acquisition, computation, and analysis methods. A lot of focus has been placed on the application of Big Data methods and less on the theoretical underpinning of the field.
The explosion of social media—in the form of user generated content on blogs, microblogs (Twitter), discussion forums, product reviews, and multimedia sharing sites—presents many new opportunities and challenges to both producers and consumers of information.