Abstract:
The knowledge audit is an essential tool, which allows the organization
as well as its associated companies, to understand how knowledge is used
in organizations to implement business processes and achieve its objectives.
Unlike the financial audit it is a qualitative nature and is focused on people,
their relationships among themselves. The audit is aimed at exploring the
organizational knowledge needs, analysis of the flaws and gaps in knowledge,
behaviour of people in sharing and creating knowledge, and how effectively it
is used and managed. Often the knowledge audit is used as a preliminary test
before running the knowledge management in a company.
The aim of this paper is to present key elements and core areas of the
company’s knowledge audit. Carrying out any kind of an audit is usually
based on a number of questions of adiagnostic nature, which allow, in this
case, making an initial diagnosis of knowledge contained in a company.