Knowledge Map as a Tool for Knowledge Transfer: the Impact of IT&C Development

During the past decades, the Information Technology and Communications (IT&C) had an accelerated development and integrated in most human activities. Additionally IT&C spreading determined major changes regarding the knowledge transfer within all the activities domains and mainly within the economic organizations. The knowledge's positive effects as a resource are appreciated by the business environment, but, in the same time, it has been recognized that its production, storage and transfer is affected by multiple risks. In the same time, the knowledge should be accessible to those which need to work with them, which is implying investments into knowledge transfer tools, considering all the specific advantages and disadvantages. The so called knowledge maps are among the knowledge transfer tools which are the most disrupted by the development of the IT&C. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the need, the advantages and disadvantages of using knowledge maps within the knowledge transfer (as part of the knowledge management) considering the implications of IT&C development.