World of Knowledge: Information Professional in Organization

Abstract

It is ironic that so many companies have an abundance of knowledge and the information professional failed to use for leveraging the existable knowledge. Based on literature reviews on four articles, this paper identifies the factors and the similarities which support that information professional required knowledge in order achieve the objective of the organizations. Using a comparative analysis on literature reviews which discussing on knowledge as important resources, tacit and explicit, knowledge workers and knowledge sources as a methodology, the result shown that knowledge becomes one of the important resources to the information professional in creating, planning, managing, control, sharing and executing organizations goals.