SOME ELEMENTS AND AREAS OF A COMPANY KNOW LEDGE AUDIT

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 a diagnostic nature, which allow, in this case, making an initial diagnosis of knowledge contained in a company.