Knowledge Management projects often start with introduction of new or improved Information Technology solutions where Databases and Data Representation in various Forms are involved. Objective of such projects is the effort to improve corporate performance by sharing information amongst employees. Despite the rosy picture some vendors paint there are areas in such projects often overlooked that bring a good project idea to downfall in the realisation.

Online systems for compiling and sharing knowledge throughout an organization are popular and useful when they are a real fit to the organizations requirements and objectives. Otherwise such projects will die a silent death in operational use, or other phenomenoms arise that have its root cause in the social system of the organization making it usefull only to a limited circle of people.