The article looks at management of the knowledge resources of
corporations. It notes that while much attention is currently paid to
big data, it is only one of the many strategically important knowledge
assets a company typically possesses, and suggests that companies can
benefit from systematically inventorying all of such assets, including
intellectual property and employee talent and expertise. It offers an
approach to mapping knowledge assets along two dimensions--tacit versus
explicit and proprietary versus widespread--to facilitate determining
how to maximize their value. The use of the approach at aerospace
company Boeing and at the European Organization for Nuclear Research
(CERN).