As more thinkers and scholars publish their work, the phrase
“knowledge management” formally became part of the lexicon of
management. And in order to provide a technological base for managing
knowledge, a consortium of U.S. companies started in 1989 the “Initiative for
Managing Knowledge Assets”. As a result, numerous knowledge management-
related articles began appearing in journals like Sloan Management Review,
Harvard Business Review, and others. Simultaneously, the first books on
organizational learning and knowledge management were published,
including Senge’s The Fifth Discipline and Sakaiya’s The Knowledge Value
Revolution.