Knowledge Management is often (I think mistakenly) seen as a subset of Management. Or worse still, knowledge is seen as just something else which needs to be managed.

I think Knowledge Management should be considered a super-set of management. What is traditionally thought of as management information (plans, strategies, tasks, resource and capability information) is just one particular type of information which needs to be managed.

Of course, if follows from the argument in my previous post to say that if the division of labour = the division of knowledge, then the management of knowledge = the management of labour.

More importantly, if you look at how you manage knowledge you will get clues as to how you might manage in general.

At the moment how you manage knowledge is through taxonomies, information architectures, certain semantic web constructs, etc. - detailed commentary of which you can find at:

Andrew Newman's MoreNews
morenews.blogspot.com

Look out for a convergence between the language used to describe the management of knowledge and the language used to describe management in general.